hotel.de AG is a Germany-based company which provides hotel reservation services through its Websites hotel.de, hotel.info and hotels.cz, and also other connected Internet domains with more than 210,000 hotels worldwide. It also operates a 24-hour multilingual call center. The Company enables business and private customers to book international hotels of various categories. It also offers preferential room rates for large booking volumes handled by the Company. hotel.de AG established a cooperation network with travel agents and online travel sites, such as airberlin.com and marcopolo.de. In addition, hotel.de offers an online service for the reservation of conference hotels. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had five subsidiaries: hotel.info hotel booking Ltd, hotel.info France SARL, hotel.info reservas hoteleras SL, hotel.info Italia Srl and hotel.info HI GmbH.
Numbers
Market Cap 52.9M EUR
Sales 38.2M EUR (yes, sales increased from 1M EUR 10Y ago when company was founded)
Quarterly Sales Growth 12.8%
Profit 15M EUR
EBITDA 2M EUR (they never lost money in the last decade, every year is a good year when it comes to positive EBIT)
Cash 8.6M EUR
LT Debt 180,000 EUR (what a joke, they owe 180,00 EUR)
Employees 311
Assets 31.9M EUR
Liabilities 7M EUR
Shares Outstanding 3,750,000
Float 1,960,000
Major Shareholders are 3 board members and executives each hold 10.4% stake plus 1 internet entrepreneur holds 5.47% stake, so 37% is owned by insiders.
Resume: As you can see previous investors got it wrong, they bough stock while it was a young start up, while you can buy it today after it's an established company with very good history when it comes to the balance sheet side and their market share. They got it right, investors got it wrong. The timing is everything. The good price is 13EUR but the real steal is at 8EUR.
Numbers
Market Cap 52.9M EUR
Sales 38.2M EUR (yes, sales increased from 1M EUR 10Y ago when company was founded)
Quarterly Sales Growth 12.8%
Profit 15M EUR
EBITDA 2M EUR (they never lost money in the last decade, every year is a good year when it comes to positive EBIT)
Cash 8.6M EUR
LT Debt 180,000 EUR (what a joke, they owe 180,00 EUR)
Employees 311
Assets 31.9M EUR
Liabilities 7M EUR
Shares Outstanding 3,750,000
Float 1,960,000
Major Shareholders are 3 board members and executives each hold 10.4% stake plus 1 internet entrepreneur holds 5.47% stake, so 37% is owned by insiders.
Resume: As you can see previous investors got it wrong, they bough stock while it was a young start up, while you can buy it today after it's an established company with very good history when it comes to the balance sheet side and their market share. They got it right, investors got it wrong. The timing is everything. The good price is 13EUR but the real steal is at 8EUR.
