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Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. (OWW)

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An online travel company, which uses technology to enable leisure and business travelers to research, plan and book travel products.

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Small Cap (1645), Consumer Discretionary (795), Travel Services (12), Internet and Catalog Retail (25), Growth (1902), Cyclical (3415), Distressed (1597), IPO in 2007 (211), Aggressive Growth (860)
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Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. At A Glance

Current Price: $6.37
Last Trade Time: 2/9/2010 4:03 PM
Open: $6.28
Previous Close: $6.17
Daily Range: $6.23 - $6.49
52-Week Range: $1.10 - $8.11
Volume: 128,411
Market Cap: $533.47M
P/E Ratio: 3.81
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Avatar NeroSagetrade (90.44) Submitted: 12/22/07 9:58 PM

Orbitz Worldwide has performed the worst of the major airline internet traffic companies over the last six months and I think we've finally hit a point where their value relative to competitors looks attractive. Orbitz has expanded nicely into Europe and is moving further away from getting all of it...More

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Avatar cashsage (32.22) Submitted: 8/05/09 11:26 AM

OWW has a too high valuation compared to its sales potential. It is also loss making.

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Avatar NVTreasureHunter (32.22) Submitted: 11/06/09 1:58 PM : Underperform Start Price: $2.20 OWW Score: -178.25

OWW my balls!

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Avatar michaeltbryant (< 20) Submitted: 9/15/09 2:41 AM : Outperform Start Price: $5.71 OWW Score: 9.40

Great brand. Will follow Priceline.

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Avatar cashsage (32.22) Submitted: 8/05/09 11:26 AM : Underperform Start Price: $4.70 OWW Score: -27.85

OWW has a too high valuation compared to its sales potential. It is also loss making.

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Avatar WPThatcher (79.10) Submitted: 8/05/09 9:37 AM : Outperform Start Price: $4.76 OWW Score: 25.87

When the recession ends, travel stocks will take off. I'd rather be early than late.

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Avatar alexreising (95.98) Submitted: 6/25/09 2:58 AM : Outperform Start Price: $1.84 OWW Score: 226.06

I am a business analyst with a major travel agency in the Seattle Washington area.

i will be the first to say, that orbitz profit margins are likely to be very slim to non right now, but I like Orbitz for several reasons.

1. Globally, recreational travel is picking back up. People with money were sitting on the sidelines because of the imminent great depression and there is a lot of pent up demand for travel. More recently has been the swine flu which doesn't seem to be too newsworthy anymore.....

2. usability and simplicity of orbitz.com UI. It's the least busy retail travel site around. I feel overwhelmed going to priceline.com for example and seeing worthless shatner all over the place. Orbitz is clean, fast, easy and straightforward. No gimmicks, just very usable with tasteful upsells.

3. Their new agressive marketing campaign, paired with the brilliance of the "price assurance guarantee". Have you ever booked a flght and seen it go down the next week by 10,20, or 30 percent? It happens all the time and this is the first type of pricing protection I have seen in our industry outside of negotiated rates with special fare rules. They are now also applying this to hotels. Why would you book XYZ flight with priceline, expedia, etc.. for $500 when you can book on orbitz for $500 and have an assurance that any lower price will be refunded to you?

Now, just because I like the company and will probably buy some in real life, I'm not sure that their profit margins will follow their innovation. I'm sure their margins are extrmely low considering they have no booking fees. I'm guessing they make commissions and upsell ancillary items... not exactly a fortune to be made on thsi model. However, I believe that Orbitz could make an attractive buyout target for several companies in the next couple of years.

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