How to buy Despegar-com stock (DESP)

Despegar-com is a travel services business based in the US. Despegar-com shares (DESP) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $14.65 – a decrease of 14.48% over the previous week. Despegar-com employs 4,593 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $740.5 million.

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Despegar-com stock price (NYSE: DESP)

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Despegar-com shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2024-12-19.

Latest market close	$14.65
52-week range	$8.06 - $19.00
50-day moving average more info button	$15.64
200-day moving average more info button	$13.20
Wall St. target price	$19.00
PE ratio more info button	189.375
Dividend yield more info button	N/A
Earnings per share (TTM) more info button	$0.08

Is it a good time to buy Despegar-com stock?

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Despegar-com price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $14.72 from 2024-12-19

1 week (2024-12-13)	-14.07%
1 month (2024-11-21)	-20.39%
3 months (2024-09-20)	17.95%
6 months (2024-06-21)	11.26%

1 year (2023-12-21)	49.59%
2 years (2022-12-21)	189.19%
3 years (2021-12-21)	51.44%
5 years (2019-12-20)	7.60%

Is Despegar-com stock undervalued or overvalued?

Valuing Despegar-com stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Despegar-com's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Despegar-com's P/E ratio

Despegar-com's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 189x. In other words, Despegar-com shares trade at around 189x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Despegar-com's EBITDA

Despegar-com's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $132.7 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Despegar-com's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Despegar-com financials

Revenue TTM	$740.5 million
Operating margin TTM	14.17%
Gross profit TTM	$355.1 million
Return on assets TTM	6.87%
Return on equity TTM	37.49%
Profit margin	3.3%
Book value	$-1.89
Market Capitalization more info button	$1.3 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Despegar-com share dividends

We're not expecting Despegar-com to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Despegar-com share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Despegar-com's shares have ranged in value from as little as $8.055 up to $19. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Despegar-com's is 1.97. This would suggest that Despegar-com's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Despegar-com overview

Despegar. com, Corp. , an online travel company, provides a range of travel and travel-related products to leisure and corporate travelers through its websites and mobile applications in Latin America and the United States. It operates through three segments: Air; Packages, Hotels, and Other Travel Products; and Financial Services. The company sells airline tickets, travel packages, hotel rooms, car rentals, bus and cruise tickets, travel insurance products, destination services, and other travel-related products, which enable consumers to find, compare, plan, and purchase travel products through its marketplace. It also provides a technology platform for its travel suppliers to manage the distribution of their travel products and access to traveler customers. In addition, the company offers loan origination services to its travel business' customers and to customers of other merchants in various industries; payment processing, fraud identification, credit scoring and IT services to travel business and third-party merchants; and Koin, an online payment and consumer lending services platform.

Frequently asked questions

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What percentage of Despegar-com is owned by insiders or institutions?
Currently 26.894% of Despegar-com shares are held by insiders and 99.392% by institutions. How many people work for Despegar-com?
Latest data suggests 4,593 work at Despegar-com. When does the fiscal year end for Despegar-com?
Despegar-com's fiscal year ends in December. Where is Despegar-com based?
Despegar-com's address is: Commerce House, Road Town, British Virgin Islands, VG1110 What is Despegar-com's ISIN number?
Despegar-com's international securities identification number is: US2506301009 What is Despegar-com's CUSIP number?
Despegar-com's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: G27358103