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CLAIM #10802 · Booking Holdings Inc (BKNG) · 2024Q2 earnings call · Aug 1, 2024 · due Dec 31, 2024

We expect accommodation ADRs will be about flat to down slightly on a constant currency basis.

Ewout Steenbergen · CFO

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graded after results covering Dec 31, 2024 are reported

In context

dpoint of the range. We expect adjusted EBITDA to grow slower than revenues due to deleverage from sales and other expenses and from growth in IT expenses related to higher software license fees and increased cloud cost. We expect third quarter revenue and adjusted EBITDA growth to also be negatively impacted by 1 percentage point from changes in FX. In terms of our outlook for the full year, we're adjusting our gross bookings growth expectation to faster than 6% which is a bit lower than our prior expectation due to less growth in flight growth bookings as a result of the lower flight ticket prices I previously mentioned. While flight prices have come down, we still expect strong growth in flight tickets for the year as we continue to expand the flight offerings at Booking.com and Agoda. We expect accommodation ADRs will be about flat to down slightly on a constant currency basis. For revenue, we now expect revenue growth of more than 7% which is a bit higher than our prior guidance, based on the outperformance in the first half of the year and our expectation for higher revenue associated with payments. Revenue is impacted to a much lesser extent than gross bookings from the decline in flight ticket prices. We continue to expect about 1 percentage point of negative impact from changes in FX on our topline growth rates while reducing our fixed OpEx growth expectation to low double digits as we continue to focus on bringing this growth rate down over time. We expect adjusted EBITDA to grow in the high single digits which is slightly faster growth than our prior expectation, given our outlook for increased revenue growth and lower fixed OpEx growth. We continue to ex

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SEC filings for BKNG · Claim quote is verbatim from the 2024Q2 earnings call.