Airbnb

ABNB

Travel Services · Consumer Cyclical

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is happy

A high-quality business with solid fundamentals.

Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026

How the score breaks down

Quality

Exceptional

Growth

Good

Cash Flow

Exceptional

Stability

Exceptional

Valuation

Good

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Winston Score History

The full picture

Airbnb runs an online marketplace where people can rent out their homes, apartments, or spare rooms to travelers looking for a place to stay. Hosts list their properties on the platform, and guests book them — similar to a hotel, but the properties are owned by regular people. The company operates in the travel industry and is the largest home-sharing platform in the world, with millions of listings across nearly every country.

Airbnb makes money by charging a service fee to both the guest and the host on each booking — it does not own any of the properties itself. The company operates globally, with strong demand in North America and Europe, and generated roughly $11 billion in revenue in fiscal 2024. Its main competitive advantage is the sheer size of its two-sided marketplace — more listings attract more guests, and more guests attract more hosts. The biggest risk is that travel demand is sensitive to economic downturns, and regulators in many cities are increasingly restricting short-term rentals.

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Growth Profile

For growth stock investors

When traditional metrics don't capture the full picture, these are the signals growth stock investors use instead.

Revenue Growth

+16.5% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

+32.7% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

Insider Activity

3.8%ownership

→ Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$12.1B cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Growth + cash flow

Airbnb is a rare growth stock that's already generating positive cash flow while growing at 17%. The Winston Score doesn't fully credit this transition from "burner" to "earner."

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Profit per sale

Gross Margin

82.5%

Premium pricing power — 82.5% gross margin

Profit after running costs

Operating Margin

21.0%

Excellent — 21.0% operating margin

Return on the money invested

ROCE

26.6%

Exceptional — 26.6% return on capital

ROIC above 25%. Every dollar invested in the business earns more than 25 cents back per year.

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Growth

Sales growth

Sales YoY

+13.6%

Fast-growing sales (+13.6% YoY)

Profit growth

EPS YoY

+6.2%

Modest earnings growth (+6.2% YoY)

Single-digit earnings growth — steady but not exciting.

How steady the profit is

EPS Consistency

5/8 quarters

Mixed — about half the quarters showed growth

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash

Cash Conversion

244%

Turns 244% of profit into real cash

Spare cash per sale

FCF Margin

49.9%

Converts sales into free cash efficiently (49.9%)

Free cash flow margin above 20%. Out of every $100 in sales, more than $20 is real cash they keep.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns

Debt / Equity

0.32

Conservative — low debt load (0.32)

Covers its interest

Interest Cover

74.00x

Comfortably covers interest (74.0x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

Price vs profit

P/E Ratio (TTM)

42.4x

no trend

Pricey — P/E 42.4

P/E over 35. The market is pricing in heavy, sustained growth.

Cheaper or dearer next year

P/E vs Forward

+16.4

GROWING

Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (42.4 → 26.0)

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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