Added to YB: 2026-09-30
Pitch date: 2026-09-24
BKNG [neutral]
Booking Holdings Inc.
+4.8%
current return
Author Info
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Company Info
Booking Holdings Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides online and traditional travel and restaurant reservations and related services in the United States, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and internationally.
Market Cap
$119.0B
Pitch Price
$158.20
Price Target
N/A
Dividend
1.06%
EV/EBITDA
11.49
P/E
17.51
EV/Sales
4.34
Sector
Hotels, Restaurants and Leisure
Category
N/A
If AI books the trip, what is Booking ($BKNG) worth?
BKNG (overview): Booking may lose travel’s consumer interface to AI agents yet retain substantial economics as the transaction and fulfilment layer, supported by 4.7M properties, 325M quarterly room nights and global payments and servicing capabilities. The risk is that agents weaken direct customer ownership and bargaining power or commoditize fulfilment; watch marketing spend at 4.7% of gross bookings and direct room-night mix in the mid-fifties, neither of which currently signals model deterioration.
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