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Booking Holdings
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What Booking Holdings is doing, read from its filings, its own words and the news, with every figure dated and sourced. Not investment advice: no ratings, no price targets.
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The latest read
Computed from the data on Oct 22, 2026. Every figure links back to its source in the sections below.
- Revenue over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $28.2 billion, up 13% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
- Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $9.54 billion, up 3.2% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
- Capital expenditure over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $0.32 billion, down 5.9% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
- Share buybacks in the fiscal year to December 31, 2025: $6.44 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
- Long-term debt issued in the fiscal year to December 31, 2025: $3.68 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
- Latest earnings call or results release (August 4, 2026): sentiment 0.20 on a −1 to +1 scale (mixed), confidence 0.60 of 1.Palanor Discourse
- Latest annual report (filed February 18, 2026): 0 risk factors added, 1 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
- Insiders were net sellers in Q3 2026: $17.2 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
- 1,935 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (+14 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
- H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 14 (26 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)
Company Posture
How Company Posture is measured →What Booking Holdings is doing, on three axes, from its filings and its own words, as of 2026-10-22. A description, not a rating: Company Posture never says whether to buy.
Retrenching · Hedging
Expanding ↔ Retrenching
Retrenching
- Capital spending40th pct
- Debt raised—
- Buybacks vs capex5th pct
- Hiring filings60th pct
- Deals and private raises48th pct
- Patent publications4th pct
Confident ↔ Hedging
Hedging
- Call sentiment20th pct
- Call confidence16th pct
- Guidance changes33rd pct
- Risk factors added73rd pct
- Insider open-market trades45th pct
- − Call sentiment
- − Call confidence
- − Guidance changes
Pressure
Components only: Not yet shown as a score: in the back-test it did not add to a naive reader's forecast of impairment, debt acceleration or bankruptcy filings (8-K 2.06, 2.04, 1.03) (not enough events (17 in half 1; needs 20)).
- Fails-to-deliver92nd pct
- Stress filings50th pct
Credit
How these are built →Booking Holdings's borrowing from its SEC filings: the bonds it priced and the debt on its latest balance sheet. A description, not a rating.
Debt on the balance sheet
$20.2B
- Due within a year $2.0B
- Longer term $18.2B
- Default point $11.1B (short + ½ long)
Finance leases included · Jun 30, 2026 filing
Bonds priced, last 12 months
$0.8B
U.S. dollar tranches with a term sheet on EDGAR. Deals sold under Rule 144A file none and are not counted.
| Priced | Amount | Coupon | Matures | Spread | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2026 | $750M | 5.375% | 2036 (10y) | +97bp | 5.388% |
From the pricing term sheets Booking Holdings filed with the SEC. Spread is to the benchmark Treasury (or Bund, Gilt) at pricing.
Charts
Live charts: each one redraws from today’s data and has an image link to paste into a document or slide.
Cash flow
Capital returned and raised
What the company says
Hiring and ownership
Filings and records
The last two years of notable 8-Ks, offerings, annual reports, federal awards, lobbying reports, patents and other public records, newest first.
- Oct 21, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (CGCN GROUP, LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
- Oct 20, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (H&M STRATEGIES LLP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
- Oct 19, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (THE DUBERSTEIN GROUP INC.)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
- Oct 16, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (HOGAN LOVELLS US LLP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
- Oct 12, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (H&M STRATEGIES LLP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
- Oct 12, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (CONVERGENCE STRATEGIES, LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.0 million
- Jul 20, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (CGCN GROUP, LLC)second_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
- Jul 20, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (THE DUBERSTEIN GROUP INC.)second_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
- Jun 2, 20268-KShareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
- May 11, 20268-KMaterial agreement signedItem 1.01
- May 7, 20268-KMaterial agreement signedItem 1.01
- Apr 2, 20268-KDirector or officer changeItem 5.02
- Apr 1, 20268-KDirector or officer changeItem 5.02
- Mar 31, 2026Trademark
- Feb 18, 202610-KAnnual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 1 removed
- Jan 20, 2026PatentPatent granted: COMBINED NEURAL NETWORKUS 12530564
- Nov 7, 20258-KMaterial agreement signedItem 1.01
- Sep 19, 20258-KDirector or officer changeItem 5.02
- Jun 17, 2025PatentPatent granted: SEARCH SYSTEM OPTIMIZATIONUS 12332891
- Jun 4, 20258-KShareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
- May 27, 2025PatentPatent granted: AUTOMATED BOT BLOCKINGUS 12316635
- May 9, 20258-KMaterial agreement signedItem 1.01
- Apr 22, 20258-KDirector or officer changeItem 5.02
- Apr 8, 2025Patent
- Feb 20, 202510-KAnnual report (10-K)1 risk factors added, 2 removed
- Jan 7, 2025Patent
- Dec 18, 20248-KDirector or officer changeItem 5.02
- Dec 10, 20248-KExit or restructuring costsItem 2.05
- Nov 21, 20248-KMaterial agreement signedItem 1.01
- Nov 8, 20248-KExit or restructuring costsItem 2.05
- Feb 22, 202410-KAnnual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 3 removed
Peers
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