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  • Is it Time to Invest in Chinese Travel Stocks?

    By Leo Sun - May 18, 2013 | Tickers: CTRP, LONG, HMIN

    Back in 2007, Chinese travel stocks were expected to be the next great growth industry. At the time, investors had many reasons to be optimistic. The 2008 Olympics were supposed to open the floodgates to tourists, and the 2010 Shanghai World Expo and Guangzhou Asian Games would generate huge amounts of revenue for Chinese travel and lodging companies. Unfortunately, that grand long-term view didn’t account for the devastating 2008-2009 more »

  • The Steep Price of Ctrip.com's Pricing War

    By Leo Sun - January 30, 2013 | Tickers: CTRP, LONG, EXPE, PCLN

    Five years ago, Chinese online travel agency Ctrip.com (NASDAQ: CTRP) was a rising star, a momentum stock that was blessed by a growing Chinese economy and the 2008 Beijing Olympics. American analysts continually recommended Ctrip, along with Internet search leader Baidu, as the premier ‘stocks to own’ as China became the second largest economy in the world.

    Since that blissful heyday, the stock has dropped 20%, and short interest more »

  • The Online Travel Market- Two Buys and One Sell

    By Ashish Sharma - August 27, 2012 | Tickers: CTRP, LONG, EXPE, OWW, PCLN

    We at TheAnalystHub.com have been working on the online travel market for quite some time  and have been watching closely the stock movements for many online travel stocks. As the Online travel market is slowly stabilizing, we feel that the agencies with maximum TAM will perform well while the companies which remain low on expansion will perform weakly on the stock markets. Here is our brief analysis of three more »

  • Ctrip: Low Price and Strong Fundamentals - Value Buy

    By Ashish Sharma - July 13, 2012 | Tickers: CTRP, LONG

    Ctrip (NASDAQ: CTRP) is currently trading at 52 week lows and the market seems to be underappreciating the long term strategies the company has in the works. As Ctrip continues to increase its growth in the Chinese travel booking market, its initiatives in hotel products and high end leisure travel services will most likely increase its revenues further. The company reported solid top line growth and better than expected margins more »

  • 5 Reasons Ctrip.com Is Dirt Cheap

    By Robert Fisher - January 27, 2012 | Tickers: CTRP, LONG, EXPE

    With Ctrip.com (NASDAQ: CTRP) down nearly 40% over the past year and trading just off 52-week lows, I decided to take a closer into the company to see if there is any reason to be excited about the stock at these prices. Here are the five points I looked at while researching the company:

    Valuation: Ctrip’s trailing 5 year valuation metrics suggest that the stock is undervalued as more »