A weak Wall Street welcome for TripAdvisor

December 22, 2011 | Online Travel

Travel website TripAdvisor Inc. received a tepid welcome on Wall Street yesterday, with shares falling 8.5 percent to $27.67 on the day after it was spun off as a stand-alone, company by former parent Expedia Inc.

“The stock got off to a rocky start,’’ said Carroll Rheem, an analyst at the travel industry research firm PhoCusWright Inc. in Sherman, Conn.

The new company picked a down day to launch, as the Nasdaq market slid 1 percent to 2,577.97 yesterday. Expedia.com bucked the tide, however, up nearly 4 percent to end at $27.89.

Rheem said that despite the poor launch, TripAdvisor’s “tremendous amount of user-generated content and Web traffic makes it a very powerful brand.’’

Get the full story at the Boston Globe

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