Booking Holdings, Inc.

Overview

Date Founded

1998

Headquarters

800 CONNECTICUT AVENUE NORWALK CT 06854

Type of Company

Public

Employees (Worldwide)

24.5K

Industries

Consumer Services
Internet Software & Services

Company Description

Booking Holdings, Inc. is an online travel company, which provides travel and related services. It offers accommodation reservations including hotels, hostels, apartments, vacation rentals and other properties. The company provides services through Booking.com, priceline.com, agoda.com, KAYAK, rentalcars.com and OpenTable brands. It also allows consumers to easily compare airline ticket, hotel reservation and rental car reservation information from hundreds of travel websites at once through KAYAK. The company was founded by Jay Scott Walker on July 18, 1997 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Website

http://www.bookingholdings.com

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In The News

ENP Newswire

April 23, 2019

-Booking Holdings to Speak at the 47th Annual J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference

Chicago Tribune

April 21, 2019

No rooms available at the hotel, so why no refund?

CNBC US News

April 15, 2019

Value investor Joel Greenblatt says he likes Booking Holdings, thinks Align is too expensive

PR Newswire

April 9, 2019

Booking Holdings to Speak at the 47th Annual J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference

GlobeNewswire

April 9, 2019

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Executives & Employees

Glenn D. Fogel

Chief Executive Officer & President

David Ian Goulden

Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Peter John Millones, Jr.

Executive Vice President & General Counsel

Brett A. Keller

Chief Executive Officer, Priceline.com

Gillian Tans

Chief Executive Officer, Booking.com

Matthew N. Tynan

Senior Vice President, Finance

Board of Directors

Jeffery Boyd

Managing Director at Brothers Brook LLC

Glenn D. Fogel

Chief Executive Officer & President at Booking Holdings, Inc.

Charles Noski

Former Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer at Bank of America Corp.

Mirian M. Graddick-Weir

Former Executive Vice President, Human Resources at AT&T, Inc.

Nancy B. Peretsman

Princeton University

Thomas E. Rothman

Chairman, TriStar Productions at Sony Pictures Entertainment

Tim Armstrong

Owner at Boston Blazers

Craig Rydin

Operating Partner at Landau, Nasella & Klatsky LLC

Jeff Epstein

Lecturer at Stanford University

Robert J. Mylod, Jr.

Founder at Annox Capital

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Owners & Shareholders

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T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.

Price Associates' investment approach is based on the belief that fundamental proprietary research drives value-added, active investment management. The firm maintains a global research platform that includes interconnected teams of research analysts. Their strategy begins with bottom-up analysis. Price Associates uses both qualitative and quantitative analysis to evaluate investment opportunities. Portfolios are created with a commitment to diversification and a strict attention to valuation appropriate to the chosen investment universe. The firm focuses its analytical process on three areas of research: the industry, the contracts issued, and the creditworthiness of each individual issuer. Price Associates' Private Asset management Group provides balanced, equity and fixed-income investment management services to meet the needs of individuals, trusts, endowments, foundations, institutions, retirement plans and IRAs and other entities.

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Mahrberg Wealth AG

Mahrberg Wealth AG is a private company headquartered in Bendern, Liechtenstein. The firm provides investment advice. Christian Della Volpe is currently the CEO of the company.

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Dodge & Cox, Inc.

Dodge & Cox's investment decisions are made by a team of seasoned investment professionals based on key fundamental factors that they believe determine investment value over the long term. The firm's investment analysts operate from a single location to foster communication and collaboration and each investment idea is subject to committee review for both its merits as a specific investment and its role in the overall portfolio. Their approach stresses an evaluation of risk relative to opportunity and we seek investments that we believe are undervalued by the market. Fundamental bottom-up research, a rigorous valuation discipline and a long-term investment horizon are central to Dodge & Cox's investment philosophy.

Recent Transactions

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Booking Holdings, Inc. purchases Hotels Combined Pty Ltd.

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Booking Holdings, Inc. raised money in a private placement transaction

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Booking Holdings, Inc. purchases Fareharbor Holdings, Inc.

Insider Transactions

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Gillian Tans

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Jeff Epstein

Transaction Advisors

Accountant

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Services, Inc.

Advised onBooking Holdings, Inc. purchases Booking.com Ltd.

Legal Advisor

Baker & McKenzie LLP

Advised onBooking Holdings, Inc. purchases Booking.com Ltd.

Investment Advisor

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Advised onBooking Holdings, Inc. purchases Kayak Software Corp.

Legal Advisor

Brian E. Hamilton

Advised onBooking Holdings, Inc. purchases OpenTable Inc.

Legal Advisor

David J. Malliband

Advised onBooking Holdings, Inc. purchases Agoda Co. Ltd.

Legal Advisor

Keith A. Pagnani

Advised onBooking Holdings, Inc. purchases OpenTable Inc.

Advisors & Consultants

Legal Advisor

Patricia Moran

Managing Director & Chief Legal Officer at Greenhill & Co. Inc.

Legal Advisor

Jonathan E. Moskin

Partner at Foley & Lardner LLP

Advisor

David J. Malliband

Partner at Baker & McKenzie LLP

Clients

Marriott International, Inc.

Marriott International, Inc. is a lodging company, which engages in the operation and franchise of hotel, residential, and timeshare properties. It operates through the following business segments: North American Full-Service; North American Limited-Service; Asia Pacific; and Other International. The North American Full-Service segment includes luxury and premium brands located in the U.S. and Canada. The North American Limited-Service segment comprises select brands located in the U.S. and Canada. The Asia Pacific segment focuses in all brand tiers in Asia Pacific region. The company was founded by J. Wiliard Marriot and Alice Sheets Marriott in 1927 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

Playa Hotels & Resorts NV

Playa Hotels & Resorts NV engages in the ownership, operation, and development of all-inclusive resorts in beachfront location destinations in Mexico and the Caribbean. It operates through the following geographical segments: Yucatán Peninsula, Pacific Coast, and Caribbean Basin. The company was founded on March 28, 2013 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Choice Hotels International, Inc.

Choice Hotels International, Inc. engages in hotel franchising and operations business. It operates through Hotel Franchising, and Corporate and Other segments. The Hotel Franchising segment refers to the hotel franchising operations consisting of the company's several hotel brands. The Corporate and Other segment deals with SkyTouch technology and international operations. The company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

Key Stats and Financials As of 2018

Market Capitalization

$77.5B

Total Enterprise Value

$85B

Earnings Per Share

$83.26

Revenue

$14.5B

Net Profit

$4B

EBITDA

$5.77B

EBITDAMargin

39.7%

Total Debt

$8.65B

Total Equity

$8.78B

Enterprise Value Sales

5.85x

Enterprise Value EBITDAOperating

14.75x

TEVNet Income

21.27x

Debt TEV

0.1x

Three Year Compounded Annual Growth Rate Of Revenue

16.35%

Five Year Compounded Annual Growth Rate Of Revenue

16.42%

Investments

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Hotel Urbano Viagens e Turismo SA

Hotel Urbano Viagens e Turismo SA provides tourism and hotel reservation services. It offers day tours, cruises, and vacation packages. The company was founded by João Ricardo Rangel Mendes, José Eduardo Rangel Mendes, and Roberta Antunes Oliveira in January 2011 and is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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GrabTaxi Holdings Pte Ltd.

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte Ltd. engages in management consultancy activities. It develops an application software, which provides location based smartphone booking and dispatching services for the taxi industry. The company was founded by Anthony Tan and Hooi Ling Tan in 2012 and is headquartered in Singapore.

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Meituan Dianping

Meituan Dianping is an investment holding company, which engages in the provision of a platform that uses technology to connect consumers and merchants It operates through the following segments: Food Delivery; In-store, Hotel, and Travel; and New Initiatives and Others. The Food Delivery segment provides food ordering and delivery service. The In-store, Hotel, and Travel segment offers merchants to sell vouchers, coupons, tickets, and reservations in the platform. The New Initiatives and Others segment includes revenue derived from cloud-based enterprise resource planning systems; integrated payment services; supply chain solutions to merchants; small and medium-sized merchants financing services; local transportation services; and other products and services. The company was founded by Xing Wang, Hui Wen Wang, and Rong Jun Mu on September 25, 2015 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

Investors

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Jay Levy

Investor at Fab Commerce & Design, Inc.

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Alex Mashinsky

Chief Executive Officer at Enfora, Inc.

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Robert Abbott

Venture Partner at Norwest Venture Partners

Suppliers

TripAdvisor, Inc. Restaurants | Needham, MA

TripAdvisor® is the world's largest travel site, enabling travelers to plan and have the perfect trip. TripAdvisor offers trusted advice from real travelers and a wide variety of travel choices and planning features with seamless links to booking tools. TripAdvisor branded sites make up the largest travel community in the world, with more than 60 million unique monthly visitors*, and over 75 million reviews and opinions. The sites operate in 30 countries worldwide, including China under daodao.com. TripAdvisor also includes TripAdvisor for Business, a dedicated division that provides the tourism industry access to TripAdvisor's millions of monthly visitors.

Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings, Inc. Consumer Services | Englewood, CO

Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings, Inc. engages in online advertising and commerce business through its subsidiaries. It operates through the TripAdvisor, and Corporate and Other segments. The TripAdvisor segment includes online travel community, aggregating reviews, and opinions from its community of travelers about destinations, accommodations, restaurants, and activities throughout the world. The Corporate and Other segment consists of assets or businesses category which the company does not disclose separately. The company was founded on August 27, 2014 and is headquartered in Englewood, CO.

Bazaarvoice, Inc. Holding Companies | Austin, TX

Bazaarvoice is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that turns social media into social commerce for the world's best global brands by enabling authentic customer-powered marketing. We achieve that by first letting consumers create and share ratings, reviews, questions, answers, and stories about products and brands on client websites. We then syndicate that content across the Web and through the channel to reach shoppers wherever they are. This customer-generated content has a tremendously positive influence on purchase decisions. It is also rich with customer intelligence, which we analyze and provide to our clients so they can make real-time, information-based decisions that affect all aspects of their business — marketing, product R&D, and operations. This strategy of putting customers at the center of your business helps you achieve measurable results across your entire enterprise. Brett Hurt, Vice Chairman, and Brant Barton, General Manager of Media Solutions, founded Bazaarvoice in 2005. Headquartered in Austin, the company has offices in Amsterdam, London, Munich, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Stockholm, and Sydney.

Competitors

Facebook, Inc. Internet Software & Services

Facebook, Inc. engages in the development of social media applications for people to connect through mobile devices, personal computers, and other surfaces. It enables users to share opinions, ideas, photos, videos, and other activities online. Its products include Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Oculus. The company was founded by Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris R. Hughes, Andrew McCollum, and Eduardo P. Saverin on February 4, 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Oracle Corp. Computer Software - Redwood Shores, CA

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Redwood Shores, California. The company specializes primarily in developing and marketing database software and technology, cloud engineered systems, and enterprise software products — particularly its own brands of database management systems. In 2018, Oracle was the third-largest software maker by revenue, after Microsoft and Alphabet. The company also develops and builds tools for database development and systems of middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, customer relationship management (CRM) software, and supply chain management (SCM) software.

Amazon.com, Inc. Retail: Other - Seattle, Washington

Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the provision of online retail shopping services. It operates through the following business segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The North America segment includes retail sales of consumer products and subscriptions through North America-focused websites such as www.amazon.com and www.amazon.ca. The International segment offers retail sales of consumer products and subscriptions through internationally-focused websites. The Amazon Web Services segment involves in the global sales of compute, storage, database, and AWS service offerings for start-ups, enterprises, government agencies, and academic institutions. The company was founded by Jeffrey P. Bezos in July 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Awards & Honors

Rank #308

2016

Fortune Magazine - Fortune 1000 Companies