Top Travel Stocks To Keep An Eye On – August 18th

Costco Wholesale, SoFi Technologies, and Alibaba Group are the three Travel stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Travel stocks are shares of publicly traded companies operating in the travel and tourism sector—such as airlines, hotels, cruise lines and online booking platforms. Their performance is closely tied to consumer travel demand and can be influenced by economic conditions, seasonality and global events like health crises or geopolitical tensions. Investors use travel stocks to gain targeted exposure to trends in leisure and business travel. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Travel stocks within the last several days.

Costco Wholesale (COST)

Costco Wholesale Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom, Korea, Australia, Taiwan, China, Spain, France, Iceland, New Zealand, and Sweden. The company offers branded and private-label products in a range of merchandise categories.

NASDAQ:COST traded up $7.94 during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting $979.98. 1,100,040 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,204,924. The stock has a market capitalization of $434.60 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 55.65, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 6.04 and a beta of 0.96. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $972.25 and its 200 day simple moving average is $986.13. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21, a quick ratio of 0.52 and a current ratio of 1.02. Costco Wholesale has a fifty-two week low of $867.16 and a fifty-two week high of $1,078.23.

SoFi Technologies (SOFI)

SoFi Technologies, Inc. provides various financial services in the United States, Latin America, and Canada. It operates through three segments: Lending, Technology Platform, and Financial Services. The company offers lending and financial services and products that allows its members to borrow, save, spend, invest, and protect money.

NASDAQ:SOFI traded up $0.40 during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting $24.17. 36,342,613 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 60,165,895. The stock has a market capitalization of $28.94 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 50.41, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.94 and a beta of 1.93. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $19.41 and its 200 day simple moving average is $15.25. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.57, a quick ratio of 0.14 and a current ratio of 0.80. SoFi Technologies has a fifty-two week low of $6.75 and a fifty-two week high of $25.11.

Alibaba Group (BABA)

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands, retailers, and other businesses to engage with their users and customers in the People's Republic of China and internationally. The company operates through seven segments: China Commerce, International Commerce, Local Consumer Services, Cainiao, Cloud, Digital Media and Entertainment, and Innovation Initiatives and Others.

NYSE:BABA traded up $0.02 during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting $121.28. 7,030,180 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 21,292,053. The stock has a market capitalization of $289.24 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.28, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.78 and a beta of 0.17. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.19, a quick ratio of 1.55 and a current ratio of 1.55. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $116.23 and its 200 day simple moving average is $120.59. Alibaba Group has a fifty-two week low of $79.21 and a fifty-two week high of $148.43.