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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

US$ thousands unless shown otherwise. Fiscal years, plus the last twelve months (LTM) when newer.

Expedia Group: financial ratios, annual
Fiscal year2009Dec 20092010Dec 20102011Dec 20112012Dec 20122013Dec 20132014Dec 20142015Dec 20152016Dec 20162017Dec 20172018Dec 20182019Dec 20192020Dec 20202021Dec 20212022Dec 20222023Dec 20232024Dec 20242025Dec 2025LTMJun 2026
Gross margin78.0%77.4%77.9%77.7%78.2%79.5%80.4%81.8%82.5%82.5%82.1%———————
Operating margin14.5%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 margin10.9%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 margin21.8%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 equity11.2%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 assets5.0%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 turnover0.460.480.520.590.640.690.540.560.590.610.610.260.430.540.590.620.630.59
Current ratio0.670.900.890.880.670.700.500.560.700.640.721.040.870.820.780.720.730.80
Debt to equity33.4%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)8.0x7.5x5.3x4.9x4.2x5.3x3.3x2.7x3.4x3.8x5.2xn/m0.5x3.9x4.2x5.4x6.3x7.1x
Effective tax rate31.7%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 revenue2.9%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 income199.4%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 flow1.3%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%

Returns use average equity or assets over the year. Return on equity is left blank when equity is negative or so small that the ratio says nothing (above ±200%); interest cover is left blank above 200 times. Price-based ratios such as P/E are on the valuation page.

Financial health

3 of 6 checks passed · June 30, 2026
What it owns · $29.1bn
Short-term assets $16.3bnLonger-term assets $12.8bn
What it owes, and who funded it · $21.6bn
Short-term liabilities $20.4bnShareholders' equity $1.2bn
  • 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.

From Expedia Group's latest balance sheet as filed. Checks are fixed, documented rules (methodology), counted only where the company reports the figures — a dot means the filing doesn't break the item out. Descriptions of reported data, not advice.

Moat

57 /100

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.

A rules-based reading of reported figures, not a forecast and not investment advice. How the score is built: methodology.

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Figures from Expedia Group's SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q), retrieved October 20, 2026. How we read and check them: methodology and data sources. Not investment advice. Back to Expedia Group.