B. Riley Estimates Booking’s Q1 Earnings (NASDAQ:BKNG)

Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:BKNG) – B. Riley issued their Q1 2026 EPS estimates for Booking in a report released on Wednesday, July 30th. B. Riley analyst N. Khan forecasts that the business services provider will post earnings of $21.91 per share for the quarter. B. Riley currently has a “Buy” rating and a $6,700.00 target price on the stock. The consensus estimate for Booking’s current full-year earnings is $209.92 per share. B. Riley also issued estimates for Booking’s Q2 2026 earnings at $60.19 EPS, Q3 2026 earnings at $105.79 EPS, FY2026 earnings at $237.62 EPS and FY2027 earnings at $285.43 EPS.

Booking (NASDAQ:BKNG) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, July 29th. The business services provider reported $55.40 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $50.32 by $5.08. Booking had a negative return on equity of 134.19% and a net margin of 19.23%. The firm had revenue of $6.80 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $6.54 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $41.90 EPS. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 16.0% on a year-over-year basis.

A number of other equities analysts also recently issued reports on BKNG. Benchmark reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $6,200.00 price objective (up from $6,000.00) on shares of Booking in a report on Wednesday. Wedbush reissued a “neutral” rating and set a $5,900.00 price target on shares of Booking in a research report on Wednesday. BMO Capital Markets restated an “outperform” rating and set a $6,000.00 price target (up from $5,700.00) on shares of Booking in a report on Wednesday. Barclays upped their price objective on shares of Booking from $5,700.00 to $6,000.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday. Finally, Morgan Stanley set a $5,650.00 target price on shares of Booking and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Wednesday. Eleven research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, nineteen have assigned a buy rating and three have issued a strong buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $5,718.07.

Booking Trading Down 1.9%

Shares of Booking stock opened at $5,504.06 on Thursday. The company has a market capitalization of $178.39 billion, a P/E ratio of 38.28, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.68 and a beta of 1.40. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $5,567.73 and a 200 day simple moving average of $5,070.33. Booking has a 12-month low of $3,180.00 and a 12-month high of $5,839.41.

Booking Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, September 30th. Stockholders of record on Friday, September 5th will be issued a $9.60 dividend. This represents a $38.40 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.7%. Booking’s payout ratio is currently 23.89%.

Insider Activity at Booking

In other news, CEO Glenn D. Fogel sold 1,013 shares of Booking stock in a transaction on Tuesday, July 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $5,695.00, for a total value of $5,769,035.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 26,633 shares in the company, valued at approximately $151,674,935. The trade was a 3.66% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Insiders sold 3,039 shares of company stock valued at $16,963,769 over the last three months. 0.16% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Institutional Trading of Booking

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of BKNG. Vanguard Group Inc. grew its holdings in shares of Booking by 1.0% during the first quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 2,956,462 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $13,620,154,000 after purchasing an additional 30,054 shares in the last quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC lifted its position in Booking by 521,609.7% during the first quarter. GAMMA Investing LLC now owns 2,363,345 shares of the business services provider’s stock valued at $10,887,718,000 after purchasing an additional 2,362,892 shares during the last quarter. Northern Trust Corp lifted its position in Booking by 0.5% during the first quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 370,327 shares of the business services provider’s stock valued at $1,706,063,000 after purchasing an additional 1,699 shares during the last quarter. Deutsche Bank AG grew its stake in Booking by 6.6% in the 1st quarter. Deutsche Bank AG now owns 296,331 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $1,365,170,000 after buying an additional 18,268 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Sanders Capital LLC increased its holdings in shares of Booking by 1.4% in the 4th quarter. Sanders Capital LLC now owns 285,064 shares of the business services provider’s stock worth $1,416,318,000 after buying an additional 3,926 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 92.42% of the company’s stock.

Booking Company Profile

Booking Holdings Inc, formerly The Priceline Group Inc, is a provider of travel and restaurant online reservation and related services. The Company, through its online travel companies (OTCs), connects consumers wishing to make travel reservations with providers of travel services across the world. It offers consumers an array of accommodation reservations (including hotels, bed and breakfasts, hostels, apartments, vacation rentals and other properties) through its Booking.com, priceline.com and agoda.com brands.