One company on Gurian's buy list: Expedia (nasdaq: EXPE - news - people ).
Other competitors in the services sector include: Orbitz Worldwide (OWW), Expedia (EXPE), and Travelzoo Inc. (TZOO).
Expedia (EXPE) looks like a bargain, Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney asserted in a research note this morning.
At the closing bell, RKT is down about 0.9%, while EXPE is up about 5.2% on the day Friday.
Expedia, Inc. (EXPE), down 13 percent year-to-date, is struggling to revamp its network.
FORBES: Playing The Fire In Priceline Without Getting Burned
Trefis members, however, project margin improvement towards 25%, implying upside of 8% to our price estimate for EXPE stock.
Shares of EXPE have shown a significant loss of momentum as they took out their June highs in early August.
FORBES: The Return of the Negotiator and the Revival of Priceline
We continue to like OTAs and remain long on EXPE because we believe that first two issues are contingent to many other developments.
Though the weekly divergences in Expedia Inc. ( EXPE) do make the stock vulnerable to more selling, the longer-term trend is still clearly positive.
Online travel companies, including Travelocity and Expedia (nasdaq: EXPE - news - people ), are now some of the oldest Internet brands.
Expedia Inc ( NASD: EXPE), according to The Online Investor.
Among the largest underlying components of PNQI, in trading today Expedia ( EXPE) is off about 3.6%, and Netflix ( NFLX) is lower by about 2%.
Should EXPE extend its quest for record highs, a flood of upbeat analyst attention or a short-covering rally could push the shares even further into the black.
So does EBAY have common characteristics that could make it follow the same path as EXPE, and are there other stocks that look ready to break out as well?
Think again: Expedia ( EXPE) exited the meta-search market, spinning off TripAdvisor ( TRIP) in an IPO last year, when Priceline and Orbitz ( OWW) balked at disclosing advertising budgets to Expedia.
Second, they have plenty of competition from direct offerings from other web-based companies with a broad user base like Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE), Priceline.com (NASDAQ:PCLN) and Travelzoo (TZOO).
Expedia (EXPE) gave some selling signals when it broke the short-term uptrend support on Monday, then the stock was met by more sellers yesterday as it retraced almost 3% back to its 100-day moving average.
One further worry is the possibility that the selling in Priceline could be hinting at the potential for further, intermediate-term weakness in the group, with stocks like Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE) and Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW) appearing increasingly vulnerable.
FORBES: The Return of the Negotiator and the Revival of Priceline
Second, Groupon has plenty of competition from direct offerings from companies and from other web-based companies with a broad user base like Google(NASDAQ:GOOG), Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Yahoo(NASDAQ:YHOO), Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE), Priceline.com(NYSE:PCLN) and Travelzoo (TZOO).
Among the largest underlying components of XRT, in trading today Cabelas Inc ( NYSE: CAB) is off about 0.5%, Shutterfly Inc ( NASD: SFLY) is down about 0.3%, and Expedia Inc ( NASD: EXPE) is lower by about 4.9%.
Second, they have plenty of competition from direct offerings from companies and from other web-based companies with a broad user base like Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE), Priceline.com (NYSE:PCLN) and Travelzoo (TZOO).
Thomas Vinje, a Brussels lawyer for the FairSearch Coalition, another group of technology companies including Microsoft, Expedia Inc. (EXPE) and Nokia Oyj (NOK1V), said Google displays links to its own search services differently from links to competitors, resulting in preferential treatment in comparison to similar services.
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Once William Shatner returns to commercials, consumers may begin to remember why Priceline was the leader in online travel bookings and feel confident in using the service once again, rather than traveling through competitors like Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE), Orbitz (NYSE: OWW), Travelzoo (NASDAQ: TZOO) and Ctrip.com (NASDAQ: CTRP), all of which have been trending upward recently (with the exception of Orbitz, which traded down seven percent during Wednesday trading).
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