Title: Analysis on Priceline.com
1PRICELINE.COM
PCLN(NASDAQ)
2Background
- priceline.com Incorporated is an online travel
company that offers its customers hotel room
reservations at over 210,000 hotels worldwide
through the Booking.com, priceline.com and Agoda
brands. - In the United States, the Company also offers
its customers reservations for car rentals,
airline tickets, vacation packages, destination
services and cruises through the priceline.com
brand. -
3Background
- In the United States, the Company also offers
customers the ability to purchase other travel
services, including airline tickets, rental car
days, vacations packages, destination services
and cruises through both a traditional,
price-disclosed retail manner, and through its
demand-collection system known as Name Your Own
Price.
4Fundamentals'
- During the year ended December 31, 2011, it
re-branded Travel Jigsaw as rentalcars.com
through rentalcars.com, it offers retail
price-disclosed rental car reservations
worldwide. - It offers car rental reservations world-wide
through rentalcars.com.
5Fundamentals'
- Priceline uses a unique business model known as
the reverse auction pricing model. - Not only has Priceline pioneered this business
model, but it has also patented it. - Priceline is that it has been aggressively
expanding its international presence. - International bookings currently account for 78
of its total business.
6Fundamentals'
- Priceline has been destroying its competition in
terms of generating revenue. Priceline has
increased its revenues by more than 209 from
2008 to February of 2012. - It has a 3-Year Sales Growth rate of 35
7Fundamentals'
- Priceline.com has an excellent combination of
strong free cash flow generation and low
financial leverage. We expect the firm's free
cash flow margin to average about 29.9 in coming
years. - Total debt-to-EBITDA was 0.4 last year, while
debt-to-book capitalization stood at 18.3.
8EARNINGS ESTIMATES
This Quarter06/2012 Next Quarter09/2012 This Year12/2012 Next Year12/2013
Average Estimate 7.07 12.48 30.06 37.21
Number of Estimates 11 11 11 11
Low Estimates 6.93 11.41 28.80 34.74
High Estimate 7.25 13.07 30.88 39.31
Year Ago EPS 5.27 9.75 22.32 30.06
EPS Growth 34.21 28.04 34.66 23.79
9Financial Summary
10Industry Analysis
Expedia Orbitz Priceline Travelocity Industry
Market Cap 7.38 B 501.64 M 9.27 B N/A 497.45 M
Revenue 2.88 B 743 M 2.20 B N/A 929.06 M
Gross Margin 79.28 81.70 52.33 N/A 46.97
EBITDA 735.35 M 149 M 445.13 M N/A 158.63 M
Operating Margin 22.24 10.90 18.41 N/A 17.80
Net Income -2.56 B -311 M 456.39 M N/A
P/E N/A N/A 22.30 N/A 22.41
11Capital Structure
Future Path of Fair Value
12Future Path of Fair Value
13Future Path of Fair Value
14Analyst Estimates
Zakcs Research Price Target (
810) JPMorgan Chase.Price Target (
707) Piper Jaffray . Price Target (
881) Piper Jaffray . Price Target (
881) Mean_at_ yahoo Finance..Price Target (
803) NasdaqPrice Target (
800) Consensus At Ft.com..Price Target (
800)
15Stock Performance
16Stock Performance
17Technical's
- Current Market price ..645
- 50-Day moving avg566
- 100-Day moving avg490
- 1st Support_at_ 628(23.60 Retracement)
- 2nd Support_at_538(28.30 Retracement)
- 1st Resistance_at_650
- 2nd Resistance_at_700
18Conclusions
- Stock in its correction phase
- Fundamentals are awesome.
- Sales growth more than 30
- Strong free cash flow
19Recommendations
- Based on a strong fundamentals , we expect the
company has the ability to outperform the market. - Buy_at_590-600
- Buy on dips
- We recommend that the company be kept on the
watch list.
20Presented By
- Century Financial Brokers
- Contact No. 97143841907
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