Expedia Group key statistics and ratios
In fiscal 2025, Expedia Group had return on equity of 91.1%, an operating margin of 12.7%, debt equal to 479.8% of equity and a current ratio of 0.73. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.
Financial ratios
| Fiscal year | 2009Dec 2009 | 2010Dec 2010 | 2011Dec 2011 | 2012Dec 2012 | 2013Dec 2013 | 2014Dec 2014 | 2015Dec 2015 | 2016Dec 2016 | 2017Dec 2017 | 2018Dec 2018 | 2019Dec 2019 | 2020Dec 2020 | 2021Dec 2021 | 2022Dec 2022 | 2023Dec 2023 | 2024Dec 2024 | 2025Dec 2025 | LTMJun 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | 78.0% | 77.4% | 77.9% | 77.7% | 78.2% | 79.5% | 80.4% | 81.8% | 82.5% | 82.5% | 82.1% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Operating margin | 14.5% | 16.5% | 13.9% | 10.7% | 7.7% | 9.0% | 6.2% | 5.3% | 6.2% | 6.4% | 7.5% | −52.3% | 2.2% | 9.3% | 8.0% | 9.6% | 12.7% | 16.0% |
| Net margin | 10.9% | 13.9% | 13.7% | 7.0% | 4.9% | 6.9% | 11.5% | 3.2% | 3.8% | 3.6% | 4.7% | −50.2% | 0.1% | 3.0% | 6.2% | 9.0% | 8.8% | 13.0% |
| Free-cash-flow margin | 21.8% | 21.1% | 17.9% | 24.8% | 9.5% | 18.0% | 8.7% | 9.1% | 11.3% | 9.8% | 13.3% | −89.1% | 35.8% | 23.8% | 14.4% | 17.0% | 21.1% | 28.4% |
| Return on equity | 11.2% | 15.7% | 19.0% | 12.2% | 10.5% | 20.3% | 23.0% | 6.3% | 8.7% | 9.4% | 14.0% | −95.4% | 0.7% | 16.2% | 41.8% | 79.8% | 91.1% | 163.3% |
| Return on assets | 5.0% | 6.7% | 7.2% | 4.1% | 3.1% | 4.8% | 6.2% | 1.8% | 2.2% | 2.2% | 2.9% | −13.0% | 0.1% | 1.6% | 3.7% | 5.6% | 5.5% | 7.6% |
| Asset turnover | 0.46 | 0.48 | 0.52 | 0.59 | 0.64 | 0.69 | 0.54 | 0.56 | 0.59 | 0.61 | 0.61 | 0.26 | 0.43 | 0.54 | 0.59 | 0.62 | 0.63 | 0.59 |
| Current ratio | 0.67 | 0.90 | 0.89 | 0.88 | 0.67 | 0.70 | 0.50 | 0.56 | 0.70 | 0.64 | 0.72 | 1.04 | 0.87 | 0.82 | 0.78 | 0.72 | 0.73 | 0.80 |
| Debt to equity | 33.4% | 46.7% | 54.2% | 54.8% | 58.2% | 97.9% | 65.4% | 76.5% | 93.9% | 90.6% | 124.5% | 544.1% | 410.8% | 273.3% | 407.6% | 402.4% | 479.8% | 451.5% |
| Interest cover (operating income ÷ interest) | 8.0x | 7.5x | 5.3x | 4.9x | 4.2x | 5.3x | 3.3x | 2.7x | 3.4x | 3.8x | 5.2x | n/m | 0.5x | 3.9x | 4.2x | 5.4x | 6.3x | 7.1x |
| Effective tax rate | 31.7% | 28.3% | 18.8% | 13.4% | 28.0% | 19.7% | 21.9% | 5.8% | 10.8% | 17.9% | 26.2% | — | — | 36.2% | 32.4% | 20.6% | 18.2% | 16.3% |
| Capital spending as % of revenue | 2.9% | 4.5% | 6.0% | 5.8% | 6.5% | 5.7% | 11.8% | 8.5% | 7.1% | 7.8% | 9.6% | 15.3% | 7.8% | 5.7% | 6.6% | 5.5% | 5.2% | 4.8% |
| Free cash flow ÷ net income | 199.4% | 152.1% | 130.8% | 357.5% | 195.2% | 260.9% | 76.0% | 283.7% | 300.3% | 270.2% | 284.4% | — | >999% | 789.2% | 231.4% | 188.7% | 240.3% | 219.0% |
| Dividends ÷ net income | — | 18.8% | 16.2% | 46.6% | 32.5% | 21.3% | 14.2% | 53.2% | 46.6% | 45.8% | 34.5% | — | — | — | 0.0% | 0.0% | 15.5% | 10.5% |
| Dividends and buybacks ÷ free cash flow | 1.3% | 90.6% | 60.0% | 54.7% | 131.7% | 59.9% | 29.1% | 75.8% | 43.0% | 101.1% | 58.4% | — | 5.4% | 21.9% | 115.9% | 79.0% | 68.5% | 47.8% |
| Quarter | 2024 Q3Sept 2024 | 2024 Q4Dec 2024 | 2025 Q1Mar 2025 | 2025 Q2Jun 2025 | 2025 Q3Sept 2025 | 2025 Q4Dec 2025 | 2026 Q1Mar 2026 | 2026 Q2Jun 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 18.8% | 6.8% | −2.3% | 12.8% | 23.5% | 11.8% | 7.3% | 18.5% |
| Net margin | 16.8% | 9.4% | −6.7% | 8.7% | 21.7% | 5.8% | −0.2% | 20.3% |
| Free-cash-flow margin | −41.6% | 0.2% | 92.2% | 24.3% | −15.5% | 3.4% | 109.4% | 29.6% |
| Current ratio | 0.73 | 0.72 | 0.73 | 0.75 | 0.74 | 0.73 | 0.73 | 0.80 |
| Debt to equity | 473.8% | 402.4% | 579.4% | 743.2% | 464.9% | 479.8% | 776.0% | 451.5% |
Financial health
- Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $16.3bn of assets due within a year against $20.4bn of liabilities due within a year.
- Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities Not assessable from the reported split. Not assessable.
- More cash than debt $6.7bn of cash against $5.5bn of debt.
- Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 452% of equity.
- Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 375% to 452% over five years.
- A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $5.2bn of operating cash flow against $5.5bn of debt.
- Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Operating income of $2.5bn against $355m of interest.
Moat
Moderate moat
How hard Expedia Group's competitive advantage looks for rivals to wear away, judged from 10 years of its own filings: returns on capital, pricing power, profit durability, cash conversion and discipline.
- Returns on capital 1 / 20
Net income has been a median 2.3% of total assets over 10 years.
- Pricing power 20 / 20
Gross margin has been a median 80.0%, moving by 2.0 percentage points (standard deviation) across 10 years.
- Durability 1 / 20
Operating margin has been a median 7.9%; its worst year was -18.6%.
- Cash conversion 17 / 20
Free cash flow was positive in 9 of 10 years, at a median 15.4% of revenue.
- Discipline 19 / 20
The diluted share count fell 11.6% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 2.9% of revenue.
AI disruption exposure: Low. In this industry, the business rests on physical assets, regulated networks or products AI itself depends on.
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