(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 exhibits 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 progress story fairly than a purely cyclical one, post-COVID. Families chasing experiences, professionals mixing work and leisure, and retirees crossing off bucket-list journeys are holding demand sturdy. Expedia (EXPE) has been a beneficiary of that continued spending. Best Stock Spotlight: Expedia (EXPE) On the checklist since: 8/12/2025. One-year value chart with transferring 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 had been up 17% year-over-year, which was the sixteenth consecutive quarter of double-digit progress for that phase. The firm is seeing strong elementary progress, too. EXPE has been executing aggressively on its $5B share repurchase plan, first approved 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 practically $1B. Management raised full-year steering and emphasised that EBITDA margins ought to proceed to increase as working leverage improves. International income is rising sooner than the U.S. phase and booked room nights are rising. Expedia can be diversifying past its core shopper bookings. Its B2B phase has been scaling shortly, whereas promoting progress is offering a higher-margin increase to profitability. The larger image is that travel demand has defied shaky financial knowledge and is shaping up to be extra of a secular bull market than the cyclical story many assumed. Risk Management: Josh — I’d let this one simmer down however preserve it on the display. As you may see, the inventory exploded after reporting earnings on August 7, the following 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 steering, however I feel I can get it barely decrease. The $205 space was a noisy little pocket of resistance earlier this yr and has not too long ago 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’d draw my line within the sand. If it violates, I’m out and I let it set up once more. I’m risking 15 or 20 factors in a inventory that might commerce into the excessive 200s or low 300s over the following few years. I’d be stalking this one, awaiting 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 mirror the opinions of CNBC, NBC UNIVERSAL, their guardian firm or associates, and may 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.