Booking Holdings provides travel and restaurant online reservation and related services. Co.'s services include: Booking.com and Rentalcars.com, in which Booking.com provides booking online accommodation reservations, based on room nights booked, and Rentalcars.com provides online rental car reservation services; Priceline, which provides consumers hotel, flight, and rental car reservation services, as well as vacation packages and cruises; Agoda, which is an online accommodation reservation service; KAYAK, which provides online meta-search services; and OpenTable, which provides online restaurant reservation services to consumers and reservation management services to restaurants.
When researching a stock like Booking Holdings, many investors are the most familiar with Fundamental Analysis — looking at a company's balance sheet, earnings, revenues, and what's happening in that company's underlying business. Investors who use Fundamental Analysis to identify good stocks to buy or sell can also benefit from BKNG Technical Analysis to help find a good entry or exit point. Technical Analysis is blind to the fundamentals and looks only at the trading data for BKNG stock — the real life supply and demand for the stock over time — and examines that data in different ways. One of those ways is to calculate a Simpe Moving Average ("SMA") by looking back a certain number of days. One of the most popular "longer look-backs" is the BKNG 200 day moving average ("BKNG 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the BKNG 50 day moving average ("BKNG 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Booking Holdings. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the BKNG 200 DMA and the BKNG 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("BKNG MACD"). The BKNG MACD chart, in conjunction with the chart of the moving averages, basically helps in visualizing how the moving averages are showing convergence (moving closer together), or divergence (moving farther apart). |