(This is The Best Stocks within the Market , dropped at you by Josh Brown and Sean Russo of Ritholtz Wealth Management.) Sean — In 2025, even because the economic system reveals indicators of softening, persons are nonetheless touring in droves. Flights are full, trains are busy, and locations around the globe are crowded. Travel has proven exceptional resilience, holding up as a secular development story somewhat than a purely cyclical one, post-COVID. Families chasing experiences, professionals mixing work and leisure, and retirees crossing off bucket-list journeys are retaining demand robust. Expedia (EXPE) has been a beneficiary of that continued spending. Best Stock Spotlight: Expedia (EXPE) On the record since: 8/12/2025. One-year worth chart with shifting averages, RSI: As of EXPE’s newest earnings name, there have been 105 million room nights booked in Q2 2025, up 7% year-over-year. Business to enterprise bookings have been up 17% year-over-year, which was the sixteenth consecutive quarter of double-digit development for that section. The firm is seeing strong basic development, too. EXPE has been executing aggressively on its $5B share repurchase plan, first licensed in November 2023. In the second quarter alone, it purchased again 3.8 million shares for roughly $627 million, bringing first-half 2025 repurchases to five.6 million shares value almost $1B. Management raised full-year steerage and emphasised that EBITDA margins ought to proceed to broaden as working leverage improves. International income is rising sooner than the U.S. section and booked room nights are rising. Expedia can also be diversifying past its core client bookings. Its B2B section has been scaling rapidly, whereas promoting development is offering a higher-margin increase to profitability. The greater image is that journey demand has defied shaky financial information and is shaping as much as be extra of a secular bull market than the cyclical story many assumed. Risk Management: Josh — I might let this one simmer down however hold it on the display screen. As you’ll be able to see, the inventory exploded after reporting earnings on August 7, the subsequent day is that huge black candle and it by no means seemed again. EXPE was barely overbought however now the RSI is cooling down. I like this one into year-end given the reiteration of their full-year steerage, however I believe I can get it barely decrease. The $205 space was a loud little pocket of resistance earlier this 12 months and has lately acted as assist throughout the summer time breakout (yellow line). It roughly aligns with the rising 50-day at $199 — between $199 and $205 is the place I might draw my line within the sand. If it violates, I’m out and I let it arrange once more. I’m risking 15 or 20 factors in a inventory that would commerce into the excessive 200s or low 300s over the subsequent few years. I’d be stalking this one, looking ahead to a low-volume, gradual decline for my entry. DISCLOSURES: (None) All opinions expressed by the CNBC Pro contributors are solely their opinions and don’t replicate the opinions of CNBC, NBC UNIVERSAL, their father or mother firm or associates, and should have been beforehand disseminated by them on tv, radio, web or one other medium. THE ABOVE CONTENT IS SUBJECT TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY . THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND DOES NOT CONSITUTE FINANCIAL, INVESTMENT, TAX OR LEGAL ADVICE OR A RECOMMENDATION TO BUY ANY SECURITY OR OTHER FINANCIAL ASSET. THE CONTENT IS GENERAL IN NATURE AND DOES NOT REFLECT ANY INDIVIDUAL’S UNIQUE PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES. THE ABOVE CONTENT MIGHT NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUR PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES. BEFORE MAKING ANY FINANCIAL DECISIONS, YOU SHOULD STRONGLY CONSIDER SEEKING ADVICE FROM YOUR OWN FINANCIAL OR INVESTMENT ADVISOR. INVESTING INVOLVES RISK. EXAMPLES OF ANALYSIS CONTAINED IN THIS ARTICLE ARE ONLY EXAMPLES. THE VIEWS AND OPINIONS EXPRESSED ARE THOSE OF THE CONTRIBUTORS AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE OFFICIAL POLICY OR POSITION OF RITHOLTZ WEALTH MANAGEMENT, LLC. JOSH BROWN IS THE CEO OF RITHOLTZ WEALTH MANAGEMENT AND MAY MAINTAIN A SECURITY POSITION IN THE SECURITIES DISCUSSED. ASSUMPTIONS MADE WITHIN THE ANALYSIS ARE NOT REFLECTIVE OF THE POSITION OF RITHOLTZ WEALTH MANAGEMENT, LLC” TO THE END OF OR OUR DISCLOSURE. Click here for the full disclaimer.