Priceline.com Inc
PCLN:NASDAQ
| Last | Change / % Change | Dividend Yield | Volume |
| 476.00 | 0.60 0.13% | 0.00% | 446,715 |
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Latest News Headlines for Priceline.com Inc
priceline.com Bearish Moving Average Crossover Alert (PCLN)
priceline.com (NASDAQ:PCLN) crossed under its 10-day moving average of $470.64 on a volume of 245K shares. This may provide short-term investors a chance for a short position, as such a crossover often suggests lower prices in the near term.Priceline.com Incorporated enables consumers to use the Internet to save money on a variety of products and services. The Company's product allows customers to name their own price on products or services and communicates that demand directly to participating sellers or to their private databases. Participants include domestic and international airlines, and hotel chains.
Top 3 Companies in the Internet Retail Industry With the Highest Operating Margin (PCLN, EXPE, NFLX)
Below are the three companies in the Internet Retail industry with the highest operating margin. A healthy operating margin is required for a company to pay for its fixed costs and generate cash.priceline.com (NASDAQ:PCLN) is highest with an operating margin of 42.4%. Priceline.com Incorporated enables consumers to use the Internet to save money on a variety of products and services. The Company's product allows customers to name their own price on products or services and communicates that demand directly to participating sellers or to their private databases. Participants include domestic and international airlines, and hotel chains. Potential upside of 33.2% exists for priceline.com, based on a current level of $468.11 and analysts' average consensus price target of $623.48. priceline.com shares should first meet resistance at the 50-day moving average (MA) of $492.29 and find additional resistance at the 200-day MA of $503.54.
Next Support Level for priceline.com (PCLN) is $468.21
View more recent headlinesShares of priceline.com (NASDAQ:PCLN) opened today below their pivot of $477.86 and have already reached the first level of support at $471.80. Analysts will be watching for a cross of the next downside pivot targets of $468.21 and $458.56.
Company Background
priceline.com Incorporated is a global online travel company that offers its customers a range of travel services, including the opportunity to purchase hotel room reservations, car rentals, airline tickets, vacation packages, cruises and destination services in a price-disclosed manner. It also offers its Name Your Own Price service that helps its customers to use the Internet to save money by allowing them to make offers for travel services at prices they set, while enabling sellers, which include many of the domestic hotel, airline and rental car companies, to generate revenue. It offers its customers hotel room reservations at over 150,000 hotels worldwide through the Booking.com, priceline.com and Agoda brands. It offers customers the ability to make hotel reservations on a worldwide basis. It offers a retail price-disclosed rental car reservation service through TravelJigsaw Limited, which it acquired in May 2010.
Bid/Size -- / -- | Ask/Size -- / -- |
Price Open 476.31 | Previous Close 475.40 |
Day High 477.59 | Day Low 465.85 |
52wk High/Date 561.88 / 5/2/2011 | 52wk Low/Date 399.18 / 12/31/2010 |
Beta 0.9 | Market Capitalization 23.7B |
Shares Outstanding 49.8M | Volatility Avg 37.39 |
Avg Vol(10 day) 741.8K | P/E Ratio 25.2x |
EPS(TTM) 18.90 | Yield 0.00% |
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Last Trade as of 12/29/2011 4:00 PM ET | |
PCLN Priceline.com Inc vs. Peers
| Peers | |
|---|---|
PCLN Priceline.com Inc | 18.98% |
Expedia, Inc. | 25.23% |
Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. | -32.38% |
Ctrip.com International, Ltd. (ADR) | -43.02% |
Google Inc. | 7.70% |
PCLN Priceline.com Inc | 0.00% |
Expedia, Inc. | 1.90% |
Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. | -- |
Ctrip.com International, Ltd. (ADR) | -- |
Google Inc. | -- |
PCLN Priceline.com Inc | 0.13% |
Expedia, Inc. | -0.71% |
Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. | 1.32% |
Ctrip.com International, Ltd. (ADR) | 1.21% |
Google Inc. | 0.42% |