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Booking Holdings Inc (BKNG) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Booking Holdings runs online travel brands including Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, Kayak and OpenTable, covering hotel, flight, car and restaurant bookings. It earns commissions and fees on reservations made through these platforms rather than owning hotels or airlines itself.

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for BKNG, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Versus its index AI Users — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

AI Users · as of 2026-11-05

DayWeekMonth3 months
BKNG−1.3%+12.2%+8.2%−21.1%
Commerce & Customer Growth0.0%+3.8%+11.2%—
AI Users−1.5%+1.2%+8.0%—

Against the index: 11.0 pts ahead on the week, 0.2 pts ahead on the month; against its Commerce & Customer Growth sleeve 3.0 pts behind on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 5 pieces · newest: Midday 10, “AI comeback — Accenture +18%, Synopsys +8%, optics +9% while all three US indices slip” (2026-10-01)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where BKNG appears in the diary — 5 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 47/100 · S&P 500 fund at 48, above its 200-day averageEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-11-06
  • Factor regime Defensive rotation — low-vol leading, regime-change watchMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): below its 50-day trend, 60th percentile of the window, -22.8% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-11-06
  • Sector × region Consumer discretionary in US: +1.9% week · +5.3% month · −1.5% quarter · −1.5% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLY.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-11-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index -2.05 · down 2.95 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-11-05
How it trades on rate days beta 1.01 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

How BKNG has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 1.01 — moves strongly with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Booking Holdings Inc moved 1.01% on average · correlation 0.25 · higher than 83% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 1.47 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.77% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +0.97% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against AI Users · Commerce & Customer Growth · 3 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

AI Users · Commerce & Customer Growth

Compared against BKNG on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Booking Holdings Inc

BKNG in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Booking Holdings runs online travel brands including Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, Kayak and OpenTable, covering hotel, flight, car and restaurant bookings. It earns commissions and fees on reservations made through these platforms rather than owning hotels or airlines itself. The group is based in Norwalk, Connecticut, and operates across the United States, the Netherlands and other markets.
Where it sits in the stack
Booking sits in the AI Users index, Commerce & Customer Growth section, where AI supports acquisition, personalisation, conversion, pricing and marketing rather than building AI infrastructure. The company has cut customer-service costs in absolute terms even as booking volume grew, disclosed in October 2025, with gen-AI contributing to transformation savings reported in February 2025. Its Penny assistant has handled cancellations and rebookings on its own since being documented in February 2024, and an agentic Smart Messenger went live for Booking.com partners in October 2025.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet groups it with other Commerce & Customer Growth names — L'Oréal, Inditex and Roblox — and the market also compares it with Expedia.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Booking sits in the Nasdaq-100 and holds an AI Users seat in Commerce & Customer Growth. It carries a Closelooknet score with one module scored so far, still being built rather than showing a clear strongest or weakest side. The diary has quoted it several times, mostly in sessions where consumer and travel names sold off alongside oil or rate moves.
What the diary watches
Whether the gen-AI rollout management describes as delivering a full Connected Trip by around 2027 shows up in further customer-service savings or booking growth, beyond the efficiencies already disclosed.

Booking Holdings Inc (BKNG) trades on US exchanges, classified under Consumer Cyclical.

The Closelooknet company score reads 66/100 composite (momentum 36, quality 89, valuation 61) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-10-25. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: BKNG news on the tape · index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

The Street on this name 9 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by Cantor Fitzgerald, 2026-11-04

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for BKNG from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Cantor Fitzgerald — target 150 Target set to $150 (-13.1% to spot) 2026-11-04
  • Price target Wells Fargo — target 179 Target set to $179 (+15% to spot) 2026-11-04
  • Price target Morgan Stanley — target 200 Target set to $200 (+28.5% to spot) 2026-11-04

9 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 9 target changes. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.97%, quarterly · buybacks 6.44 bn USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What BKNG pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.64 USD per share · a 0.97% yield on the 2026-11-05 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-11-05
  • Change on the year +42.7% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.15 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.42 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-11
  • By calendar year 2025: 1.54 USD (partial) · 2026: 1.26 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-03-07
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 1.25 bn USD 16% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 6.44 bn USD 5.0% of today's market value
  • Share count −4.2% in FY2025 617 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 7.69 bn USD · 85% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-11-06

Quick answers

What is Booking Holdings Inc (BKNG)?

Booking Holdings Inc trades as BKNG on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Consumer Cyclical in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-11-06.

Is BKNG in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Booking Holdings Inc is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-11-06.

What is Booking Holdings Inc's Closelooknet composite score?

66 out of 100, with momentum 36, quality 89 and valuation 61 sub-scores, as of 2026-11-06. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does BKNG trade against its moving averages?

Booking Holdings Inc trades 0.9% above its 50-day and 3.8% below its 200-day moving average (6.6% above its 20-day). As of 2026-11-05 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is BKNG doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month Booking Holdings Inc is +8.2% against +8.0% for the AI Users — 0.2 points ahead of its index, as of 2026-11-05. Its Commerce & Customer Growth sleeve is +11.2% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

How does Booking Holdings Inc compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (AI Users · Commerce & Customer Growth), Booking Holdings Inc (BKNG) sits 23.0% below its 52-week high, 0.9% above its 50-day average; Industria de Diseno Textil SA (ITX.MC) is 1.0% below, LOréal S.A. (OR.PA) is at its high, Roblox Corp (RBLX) is 56.0% below, as of 2026-11-05. Put any of them next to BKNG in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does Booking Holdings Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Booking Holdings Inc had a beta of 1.01 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it moves strongly with bonds, higher than 83% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.77% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. As of 2026-11-05; The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about Booking Holdings Inc?

Booking Holdings Inc appears in 5 Closelooknet pieces as of 2026-11-06, most recently Midday 10: AI comeback — Accenture +18%, Synopsys +8%, optics +9% while all three US indices slip (2026-10-01); Morning 10: Oil settles at $107.63, the 10-year hits 4.95% and the 30-year 5.36%, its highest since 2007: chips lead a fourth down day, Oracle beats and jumps 4% after hours, Adobe beats and slips — and Asia sells its chipmakers 3% to 7% (2026-09-11); Morning 10: Brent closes above $100 for the first time since July and the 10-year hits 4.86%: Wall Street falls a third day while Cloudflare +10%, Datadog +7% and Meta +7% catch the money the chip leaders gave back (2026-09-10). What Closelooknet said most recently: Consumer spending weak worldwide: Mercado Libre $1,681.85 (−2.70%), Sea −2.85%, Disney −3.01%, Home Depot −1.68%, Lowe's −2.01%, Booking −1.33%; Amazon $246.70 (−0.98%), down 4.1% in a month to Wednesday (Midday 10, 2026-10-01). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does Booking Holdings Inc do?

Booking Holdings runs online travel brands including Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, Kayak and OpenTable, covering hotel, flight, car and restaurant bookings. It earns commissions and fees on reservations made through these platforms rather than owning hotels or airlines itself. The group is based in Norwalk, Connecticut, and operates across the United States, the Netherlands and other markets. Closelooknet groups it with other Commerce & Customer Growth names — L'Oréal, Inditex and Roblox — and the market also compares it with Expedia. (Company snapshot of 2026-10-25.)

Where does Booking Holdings Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Booking sits in the AI Users index, Commerce & Customer Growth section, where AI supports acquisition, personalisation, conversion, pricing and marketing rather than building AI infrastructure. The company has cut customer-service costs in absolute terms even as booking volume grew, disclosed in October 2025, with gen-AI contributing to transformation savings reported in February 2025. Its Penny assistant has handled cancellations and rebookings on its own since being documented in February 2024, and an agentic Smart Messenger went live for Booking.com partners in October 2025. Booking sits in the Nasdaq-100 and holds an AI Users seat in Commerce & Customer Growth. It carries a Closelooknet score with one module scored so far, still being built rather than showing a clear strongest or weakest side. The diary has quoted it several times, mostly in sessions where consumer and travel names sold off alongside oil or rate moves. (Company snapshot of 2026-10-25.)

Does Booking Holdings Inc pay a dividend?

Booking Holdings Inc has paid 1.64 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 0.97% on the 2026-11-05 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.42 USD on 2026-09-11. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 1.25 bn USD in dividends and bought back 6.44 bn USD of its own shares, 85% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 4.2% over the fiscal year. As of 2026-11-05; the "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on Booking Holdings Inc recently?

The most recent analyst action on Booking Holdings Inc on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by Cantor Fitzgerald on 2026-11-04 (target 150). 9 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 9 target changes. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

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