Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG)

(NASDAQ: BKNG · $158.43 ▼ 1.2%) Booking Holdings is a provider of online travel and related services, serving consumers and local partners in more than 220 countries and territories. Its stated mission is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. Online travel platforms typically act as intermediaries between travelers and suppliers such as accommodation providers and transport companies, earning revenue from commissions, merchant transactions and advertising.

Booking Holdings operates through six primary consumer-facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, Rentalcars.com, KAYAK and OpenTable. Running a portfolio of consumer brands is a common structure among large online travel groups, allowing them to reach different audiences and markets under separate names. Collectively, the company works in more than 40 languages across Europe, North America, South America, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East and Africa, a reach that reflects the need to serve both local partners and travelers in their own languages.

Booking Holdings is headquartered at 800 Connecticut Avenue in Norwalk, Connecticut, in lower Fairfield County, and staff based there commute from across the New York tri-state area. The company's stated values include integrity and accountability, continuous innovation, diversity of ideas and people, and collaboration, and it presents its working culture as one built on transparency. Employee benefits include travel perks, a long-standing feature of employment across the travel industry, alongside hybrid working, tuition reimbursement, mental health support and fitness reimbursement.