Booking Holdings Inc. (BKNG)☆

Booking Holdings is the world’s largest online-travel company, operating Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, and Kayak. It is a member of the S&P 500 and is classified in the Consumer Discretionary sector — retailers, automakers and leisure companies whose sales rise and fall with consumer confidence.

Booking Holdings Inc. trades on the NasdaqGS under the ticker symbol BKNG. As of the most recent market data, the stock was priced around $181.68, down 1.59% on the session, giving Booking Holdings Inc. a market capitalization of roughly $140.78B.

Over the past 52 weeks, BKNG has traded between $150.14 and $231.80. Shares are valued at a trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of about 24.3, a common gauge of how richly the market prices the company's earnings. Booking Holdings Inc. also pays a dividend, currently yielding around 87.00%.

As one of the larger companies in the Consumer Discretionary sector, Booking Holdings Inc. is closely followed by investors and often moves with broader trends across retailers, automakers and leisure companies whose sales rise and fall with consumer confidence. Traders watch BKNG for earnings reports, analyst rating changes, and headlines that can shift sentiment — each of which is summarized on this page as it breaks.

Because the S&P 500 is weighted by market value, Booking Holdings Inc.'s size means its share-price moves can also nudge the index as a whole, making BKNG a stock that even index investors pay attention to.