Institutional ticker directory tracking stock mentions, long/short ideas, and high-conviction pitches extracted from quarterly hedge fund letters.
| Ticker | Company | Sector | Industry | Pitches | Stance |
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| Fund / Manager | Thesis Excerpt | Stance | Period / Date | Action |
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Loomis Sayles Global Growth Fund Aziz Hamzaogullari | “China-based Trip.com (TCOM), formerly known as Ctrip, is among the world's largest global travel platform. Founded in 1999, the company offers a comprehensive, integrated platform on which travelers can make arrangements for lodging, transportation, packaged tours and other related services, including online advertising and financial services, as well as providing corporate travel management services. A holding in the fund since the first quarter of 2020, Trip.com reported quarterly financial results that were fundamentally strong and above consensus expectations for revenues and operating profit. Revenue growth of 17% year over year reflected resilient growth in China and Asia-Pacific travel, as well as increased demand for international travel and the company's global brands. Shares may have responded negatively to guidance for the coming quarter, which reflects a deceleration in revenue growth to mid-single digits due to both cyclical factors such as elevated energy and airline prices and operational changes to proactively align with industry regulatory practices. In January, China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) announced that it was launching an antitrust investigation into allegations that the company was using its dominant market position to engage in anti-competitive practices. If SAMR finds that the company is in violation, it could face a fine of 1% to 10% of prior-year sales and be required to change business practices. Based on Trip.com's 2025 full-year sales, potential fines could range from approximately $90 million to $900 million. As of March 31, the company had cash, short-term, and long-term investments valued at approximately $20 billion, with long-term debt of only approximately $1.6 billion. We continue to believe the company remains a high-quality company with a leading position in the Asia-Pacific travel market, and which trades at a substantial discount to our estimate of intrinsic value. We believe the company's share price embeds expectations for key revenue and cash flow metrics that are substantially below our long-term assumptions. As a result, we believe the company's shares are trading at a significant discount to our estimate of intrinsic value and offer an attractive reward-to-risk opportunity.” | NEUTRAL | Q2 2026 Aug 12, 2026 | View Pitch |
Loomis Sayles Global Growth Fund Aziz Hamzaogullari | “China-based Trip.com (TCOM), formerly known as Ctrip, is the world's largest global travel platforms. Founded in 1999, the company offers a comprehensive, integrated platform on which travelers can make arrangements for lodging, transportation, packaged tours and other related services, including online advertising and financial services, as well as providing corporate travel management services. China-related travel accounts for over 85% of revenue, but Trip.com is available in 24 languages and 35 local currencies while Skyscanner is available in over 50 countries and over 35 languages. A holding in the fund since the first quarter of 2020, Trip.com reported quarterly financial results that were fundamentally strong and above consensus expectations for revenue, adjusted operating profit, and earnings per share. Year-over-year revenue growth of 16% reflected continued recovery of the China travel market, increased demand for international travel, and strong performance of the company's global brands. Cross-border flight capacity recovered to 83% of pre-pandemic levels, with expectations to reach 90% by year-end. Travel booking on the company's international OTA platform rose 60% year over year, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. The company increased sales and marketing investment by 30% to support expansion of global brands, causing margin compression, but EBITDA margins of 31% still exceeded expectations. Trip.com maintains a strong balance sheet with $17.9 billion in cash and investments versus $2.8 billion in debt. We believe the company is well positioned to benefit from secular growth in China travel and international tourism recovery. We believe shares trade at a significant discount to intrinsic value given conservative market expectations for revenue and cash flow. BSD Analysis: Trip.com is the backbone of Chinese and outbound Asian travel, owning brands like Ctrip and Skyscanner with deep relationships across airlines and hotels. The China travel recovery is messy and policy-dependent, but structurally the desire to travel is not going back in the box. Trip's scale gives it bargaining power and data advantages in a market where smaller OTAs have been squeezed. International diversification via Skyscanner and overseas partnerships gives it more levers than a purely domestic player. Regulatory and macro risk in China will always cast a shadow, and that's exactly why the stock can get mispriced. If you believe in the long-term normalization of travel flows, Trip is the central tollbooth. You just have to be comfortable holding something that headlines will regularly try to scare you out of.” | BULL | Q2 2025 Jun 30, 2025 | View Pitch |
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