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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Priceline.com Inc. shares climbed to an an eight-year high on Friday before closing with a gain of 12% after the online travel site reported a first-quarter profit fueled by a rise in booking and international travel.
Priceline (PCLN:priceline)

PCLN 127.97, -4.30, -3.2%) rose $14.85 a share to close at $138.63 and has more than doubled since this time last year and is now at its highest level since late 2000. Earlier in the session, the shares reached $143.70.
The move came after the company said late Thursday that it earned $18.2 million, or 37 cents a share, on revenue of $403.2 million. During the same period a year ago, Priceline lost $16.3 million, or 44 cents a share, on $301.4 million in revenue.
Excluding one-time items, Priceline would have earned 76 cents a share to beat the estimates of analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial, who forecast a profit of 60 cents a share on $377.2 million in revenue.
The company, best-known for its name-your-own price option for flights, has benefited from consumers searching for low-price flights at a time when many airlines are hampered by rising fuel costs.
Priceline said both its domestic and international businesses grew during the quarter. Domestic bookings rose 51% from a year ago, while international bookings doubled from the same period last year.
"The U.S. business was the big upside surprise this quarter," Marianne Wolk of Susquehanna Financial Group said in a research note.
Wolk said that Priceline had earlier estimated its U.S. bookings would rise 35% from a year ago and that "the main driver of growth appears to be air ticketing growth" due to the company's no-booking fee promotion that has been in place since June 2007.
For its second quarter, Priceline said it expect to report earnings of $1.25 to $1.40 a share before items, and full-year earnings of between $5.25 and $5.65 a share. Wall Street analysts had previously estimated Priceline would earn $1.29 a share for its second quarter and $5.11 a share for its entire fiscal year.
"Priceline is proving out as the most defensive 'Net stock," Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney said in a research note. Mahaney raised his full-year earnings estimates on Priceline to $5.59 a share and lifted his target price on the company's stock to $161 a share.

Rex Crum is a reporter for MarketWatch in


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Priceline.com President and CEO Jeffery H. Boyd to Speak at Goldman Sachs Investor Conference
Wednesday May 21, 8:45 am ET

NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Priceline.com® (Nasdaq: PCLN - News) President and Chief Executive Officer Jeffery H. Boyd will speak today at the Goldman Sachs 9th Annual Global Internet Conference in Las Vegas at 7:50 p.m. ET. A copy of Mr. Boyd’s Powerpoint presentation will be available today at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET in the Presentations section of the Investor Relations section of the priceline.com Web site http://www.priceline.com.

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