Booking Holdings (BKNG) Q2 Earnings Beat, Revenues Rise Y/Y
Booking Holdings Inc. BKNG reported non-GAAP earnings of $37.62 per share for second-quarter 2023, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 30.4%. The figure jumped 97% from the year-ago quarter.
Revenues of $5.5 billion surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $5.1 billion. The top line improved 27% year over year on a reported basis and 28% on a constant-currency (cc) basis.
Improving travel demand and booking trends from the year-ago quarter were tailwinds.
Booking Holdings witnessed growth of 24% in rental cars on a year-over-year basis and 58.3% year-over-year growth in the airline tickets unit in the reported quarter.
Booked room night numbers, amounting to 268 million in the second quarter, surged 8.8% from the prior-year quarter’s level.
The company witnessed strong growth across its agency, merchant and advertising and other businesses in the reported quarter.
The company has gained 41% in the year-to-date period, outperforming the industry’s growth of 36.2%.
Booking Holdings Inc. Price, Consensus and EPS Surprise
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Top Line in Detail
Agency revenues were $2.43 billion (44.5% of total revenues), up 5.6% year over year.
Merchant revenues were $2.77 billion (50.7% of total revenues), up 58.4% on a year-over-year basis.
Advertising & Other revenues were $263 million (4.8% of total revenues), which increased by 7.8% from the year-ago quarter.
Bookings
Booking Holdings’ overall gross bookings totaled $39.7 billion, which increased by 15% on a reported basis and 16% on a cc basis from the year-ago quarter’s respective readings.
Total gross bookings surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $38.5 billion.
Merchant bookings were $21.12 billion, up 39.9% from the prior-year quarter’s level. The figure topped the consensus mark of $18.7 billion.
Agency bookings were $18.6 billion, down 4.5% from the prior-year quarter’s level. The figure came below the consensus mark of $19.8 billion.
Operating Results
Adjusted EBITDA in the reported quarter was $1.8 billion, which improved 64% year over year.
Adjusted EBITDA margin was 32.6%, which expanded 730 basis points (bps) from the prior-year quarter’s level.
Per management, operating expenses were $3.8 billion, up 15% on a year-over-year basis. As a percentage of revenues, the figure contracted 730 bps from the year-ago quarter’s figure.
Booking Holdings generated an operating margin of 30.6%, which expanded 730 bps year over year.
Balance Sheet
As of Jun 30, 2023, cash and cash equivalents were $14.6 billion, up from $14.1 billion as of Mar 31, 2023. Short-term investments were $640 million, up from $359 million at the end of the previous quarter.
Account receivables amounted to $2.8 billion in the reported quarter compared with $2.05 billion in the prior quarter.
At the end of the second quarter, Booking Holdings had $13.2 billion of long-term debt, up from $11.3 billion at the end of the first quarter.
Zacks Rank & Stocks to Consider
Currently, Booking Holdings carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
Some better-ranked stocks in the retail-wholesale sector are BJ’s Restaurants BJRI, Domino’s Pizza DPZ and Lithia Motors LAD. While BJ’s Restaurants and Domino’s Pizza sport a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), Lithia Motors carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
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Lithia Motors has gained 47.6% on a year-to-date basis. The long-term earnings growth rate for LAD is currently projected at 3%.
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