Booking Holdings — Feb 20, 2025 release

Gross bookings is an operating and statistical metric that captures the total dollar value, generally inclusive of taxes and fees, of all travel services booked by our customers, net of cancellations. Exhibit 99.1   Additional Highlights Active Return of Capital to Shareholders First Quarter Dividend ● Our Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $9.60 per share, payable on March 31, 2025, which is a 10% increase from the quarterly cash dividend per share of $8.75 in 2024. The cash dividend will be payable to stockholders of record as of the close of business on March 7, 2025. Stock Repurchase Program ● We repurchased $1.1 billion of stock under our authorized stock repurchase program in the fourth quarter of 2024, and our total remaining stock repurchase authorization was $7.7 billion as of December 31, 2024. ● In January 2025, our Board authorized a program to repurchase up to an additional $20 billion of our common stock. Discrete Items ● For the quarter and year ended December 31, 2024, the Company recorded a loss of $796 million related to the conversion option on the convertible senior notes due in May 2025, which primarily represents the changes in the fair value of an embedded derivative and amortization of debt discount. Under U.S. GAAP, the conversion option is required to be accounted separately as an embedded derivative as, during the quarter, the Company irrevocably elected cash as the settlement method for the conversion premium on the maturity of the notes. See the Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Company’s