Benzinga | Aug 5, 2020 12:12PM EDT

Booking Holdings Earnings Preview

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ:BKNG) releases its next round of earnings this Thursday, August 06. Here's Benzinga's essential guide to Booking Holdings's Q2 earnings report.

Earnings and Revenue

Wall Street expects an EPS loss of $-11.7 and sales around $569.31 million. Booking Holdings EPS in the same period a year ago totaled $23.590. Sales were $3.85 billion. If the company were to match the consensus estimate when it reports Thursday, EPS would have fallen 149.6%. In comparison to analyst estimates in the past, here's how the company's reported EPS stacks up:

Quarter Q1 2020 Q4 2020 Q3 2019 Q2 2019EPS Estimate 6.10 22.04 44.57 22.70EPS Actual 3.77 23.20 45.36 23.59Revenue Estimate 2.31 B 3.28 B 5.07 B 3.75 BRevenue Actual 2.29 B 3.34 B 5.04 B 3.85 B

Stock Performance

Over the last 52-week period, shares are down 12.78%. Given that these returns are generally negative, long-term shareholders are probably a little upset going into this earnings release.

Don't be surprised to see the stock move on comments made during its conference call. Booking Holdings is scheduled to hold the call at 16:30:00 ET and can be accessed here: https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/aqhnspd6