Booking (NASDAQ:BKNG – Get Free Report) and OLB Group (NASDAQ:OLB – Get Free Report) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, risk, institutional ownership and profitability.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Booking and OLB Group”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Booking | $23.74 billion | 5.62 | $5.88 billion | $153.86 | 26.91 |
| OLB Group | $12.84 million | 0.36 | -$11.23 million | ($3.56) | -0.12 |
Profitability
This table compares Booking and OLB Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Booking | 19.37% | -134.86% | 25.39% |
| OLB Group | -92.68% | -208.53% | -71.73% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Booking and OLB Group, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Booking | 0 | 9 | 28 | 0 | 2.76 |
| OLB Group | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Booking currently has a consensus target price of $6,171.56, indicating a potential upside of 49.05%. Given Booking’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Booking is more favorable than OLB Group.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
92.4% of Booking shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.8% of OLB Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Booking shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 60.2% of OLB Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Risk and Volatility
Booking has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OLB Group has a beta of 2.08, suggesting that its share price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Booking beats OLB Group on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Booking
Booking Holdings Inc, formerly The Priceline Group Inc., is a provider of travel and restaurant online reservation and related services. The Company, through its online travel companies (OTCs), connects consumers wishing to make travel reservations with providers of travel services across the world. It offers consumers an array of accommodation reservations (including hotels, bed and breakfasts, hostels, apartments, vacation rentals and other properties) through its Booking.com, priceline.com and agoda.com brands. Its other brands include KAYAK, Rentalcars.com and OpenTable, Inc. (OpenTable). As of December 31, 2016, Booking.com offered accommodation reservation services for over 1,115,000 properties in over 220 countries and territories on its various Websites and in over 40 languages, which included over 568,000 vacation rental properties (updated property counts were available on the Booking.com Website).
About OLB Group
The OLB Group, Inc. is a diversified fintech e-commerce merchant services provider and Bitcoin crypto mining enterprise. The Company’s eCommerce platform delivers e-commerce services for a digital commerce solution to over 10,500 merchants in all 50 states. The Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, DMINT, Inc, is engaged in the mining of Bitcoin utilizing low carbon natural gas with over 1,000 application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)-based S19j Pro 96T mining computers. www.olb.com and www.olb.com/investors-data.
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