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Speaker 1: Stocks are under pressure again today. Dallas currently lower by

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Speaker 1: and NAZAC falls thirty six. The small cap six hundred

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Speaker 1: point seven seven percent. And that's the Bloomberg business flash

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Speaker 1: you're listening to taking Stock with Kathleen Hayes and on

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Radio. In the easter holiday, a lot of spending

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Speaker 1: on new advertising campaigns, and weaker demand for travel to

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Speaker 1: France in China. All of these hit price Line Group

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Speaker 1: second quarter profit now suffering according to price Line and

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Speaker 1: saying this in a statement. Investors are not in a

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Speaker 1: very forgiving mood though, because price Lines share is share

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Speaker 1: prices tell me the most in three and a half years.

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Speaker 1: Putting a whole lot more on Price Line Group's interim

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Speaker 1: in chief executive Jeffrey Boyd, who has been back just

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Speaker 1: a week reclaiming an old job that he had left.

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Speaker 1: Let's bring in our next guest to bring this all

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Speaker 1: together for us, Dan Musselic, senior equity analyst at morning

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Speaker 1: start joining us from Chicago. So Dan, first of all,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about Jeffrey Boyd, what brought him back and

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Speaker 1: Boyle boy, they need all the help they can get

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Speaker 1: right now? Uh? Yeah, I mean, I guess that remains

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Speaker 1: that you've seen. If they need all the health they

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Speaker 1: can get, we probably we'll talk about that in a minute,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean, so we heard last week that

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Speaker 1: the former CEO, Darren Houston, who we view as an

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Speaker 1: effective CEO, had to resign for um uh conduct that

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Speaker 1: was contrary to the code of Ethics. So that brought

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Boyd, who was still the chairman of price Line

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Speaker 1: back as CEO at least in the interim, and as

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Speaker 1: you alluded to, he was a former CEO. He was

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Speaker 1: really paramount and making price Line into the domino t

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Speaker 1: a that it is today. He was the CEO from

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Speaker 1: two thousand and one to two thousand thirteen, and at

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Speaker 1: that time he made a big acquisition in two thousand

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Speaker 1: five of Booking dot Com that really made price Line

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Speaker 1: into this dominant otia that we see today. So, Danny,

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Speaker 1: what do you think is it a stock worth buying

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Speaker 1: right now? It's down a hundred and ten dollars, it's

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Speaker 1: down about eighty three the last print. Yeah. You know,

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Speaker 1: our view, as we see this as an opportunity, price

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Speaker 1: Line is a high quality company. We believe it's well

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Speaker 1: positioned in a large in the large and growing online

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Speaker 1: travel industry, and that it's trading at attractive valuation here.

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Speaker 1: So you know, what we saw essentially was a very

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Speaker 1: very strong first quarter where the key metrics we're ahead

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Speaker 1: of expectations and actually superior growth to Expedia on an

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Speaker 1: organic to organic comparison. And then you know the reason

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Speaker 1: the stock is down is that the second quarter guidance

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Speaker 1: in near term spending. Our view on that is, you know,

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Speaker 1: we have several reasons to believe that that space. The

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Speaker 1: versus any increased competitive situation for Priceline. Speaking of competitive

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Speaker 1: why is Priceline so dominant? Is it? Captain Kirk's a

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Speaker 1: William Shatner. There's so much competition in that space. You

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Speaker 1: mentioned Expedient, how about Kayak? How about so many discount

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Speaker 1: websites that are easy to navigate. Um, you can get

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Speaker 1: all kinds affairs out there. What is Priceline doing so well? Yeah? So,

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Speaker 1: I mean there's been a lot of consolidations, so Expedient

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Speaker 1: and Priceline have been part of that consolidation, and they've

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Speaker 1: tough for any others to compete against them. You mention

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Speaker 1: And Expedia has made a bunch of acquisitions recently, such

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Speaker 1: as Orbits. Orbits was the number three competitor before it

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Speaker 1: was acquired by Expedia and really was unable to effectively

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Speaker 1: compete on a marketing and technology scale that expedient Priceline

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Speaker 1: are able to, so they have that scale advantage, they

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Speaker 1: have you know, the network effect advantage where they have

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Speaker 1: a bunch of properties and other travel supply on their

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Speaker 1: network um. And in addition to that, the reason why

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Speaker 1: pricelines growth has been so strong is their focus is

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Speaker 1: really more in international markets, and those international markets have

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Speaker 1: hotels that are more independent or boutique versus in the

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Speaker 1: US they are more made of large brands such as

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Speaker 1: Hilton and Marriott and for the vet reason, and international markets,

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Speaker 1: those smaller hotels really depend on the channels such as

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Speaker 1: Priceline to try to drive um booking bookings to to

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Speaker 1: their to their to their hotels. What kind of margins

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Speaker 1: are we talking about for these international sal and small

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Speaker 1: boutique hotels you describe, Yeah, so I guess, uh, Priceline

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Speaker 1: Expedia get a commission um on each hotel room that's sold,

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Speaker 1: and internationally, you know, the companies don't disclose those for

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Speaker 1: competitive reasons, but you know, for international markets often probably

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Speaker 1: commissioned rates for hotels are probably around mid to high

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Speaker 1: teams and that compares with you know, the US markets

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Speaker 1: that are more consolidated with those larger brands where those

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Speaker 1: commission rates might be high single digit, low double digits.

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Speaker 1: So it is uh, you know, it is a stronger

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Speaker 1: economic channel to be uh well positioned in those markets.

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Speaker 1: how does it look right now for hotels, for travel

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Speaker 1: websites broadly because there is still concern kind of goes

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Speaker 1: up and down in terms of the temperature of that

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Speaker 1: concern in the markets that that there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: there's a lack of demands and would say in many

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Speaker 1: been two things with the with the macro environment. So

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Speaker 1: last several months in Paris and Brussels and not having

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Speaker 1: some impact, but you know, barring I guess continued to tax.

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Speaker 1: What we have seen historically are though those pauses are

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Speaker 1: are short lived and that people you know, value travel,

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Speaker 1: especially Europeans, and that they do return to travel. But

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Speaker 1: that is one reason why there might be a near

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Speaker 1: term pause. And the second one is you know, economic growth, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I guess globally and especially internationally has shown

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Speaker 1: some some signs of weakening. Dan Wessiliak, Thanks very much

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