Best Hotel Stocks To Consider – August 14th

Booking, Expedia Group, and Carnival are the three Hotel stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Hotel stocks are publicly traded shares of companies that develop, own, operate, or franchise lodging properties such as hotels and resorts. Buying these stocks gives investors exposure to the hospitality sector’s performance, which is driven by factors like travel demand, economic cycles, and seasonality. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Hotel stocks within the last several days.

Booking (BKNG)

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.

NASDAQ BKNG traded up $46.69 on Thursday, reaching $5,494.61. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 89,720 shares, compared to its average volume of 250,538. The firm has a market cap of $178.08 billion, a PE ratio of 38.21, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.57 and a beta of 1.41. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $5,563.76 and a 200 day moving average price of $5,110.00. Booking has a 52 week low of $3,592.28 and a 52 week high of $5,839.41.

Expedia Group (EXPE)

Expedia Group, Inc. operates as an online travel company in the United States and internationally. The company operates through B2C, B2B, and trivago segments. Its B2C segment includes Brand Expedia, a full-service online travel brand offers various travel products and services; Hotels.com for lodging accommodations; Vrbo, an online marketplace for the alternative accommodations; Orbitz, Travelocity, Wotif Group, ebookers, CheapTickets, Hotwire.com and CarRentals.com.

Shares of EXPE stock traded down $0.94 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $208.74. 1,311,135 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,122,479. Expedia Group has a fifty-two week low of $126.46 and a fifty-two week high of $213.00. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $178.64 and its two-hundred day moving average is $173.28. The company has a market cap of $26.53 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.59, a P/E/G ratio of 1.01 and a beta of 1.61. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.14, a current ratio of 0.75 and a quick ratio of 0.73.

Carnival (CCL)

Carnival Corp. engages in the operation of cruise ships. It operates through the following business segments: North America and Australia (NAA) Cruise, Europe and Asia (EA) Cruise Operations, Cruise Support, and Tour and Others. The North America and Australia (NAA) Cruise segment includes the Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, and Seabourn.

Shares of CCL stock traded down $0.46 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $30.19. 8,696,026 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 23,908,898. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $27.68 and its two-hundred day moving average is $23.80. Carnival has a fifty-two week low of $15.03 and a fifty-two week high of $31.01. The company has a market cap of $35.24 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.31, a P/E/G ratio of 0.66 and a beta of 2.70. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.58, a current ratio of 0.34 and a quick ratio of 0.30.