despite the omicron variant’s effects on travel at the the end of the fourth quarter booking holdings inc said wednesday that its business still did better than it expected “we delivered revenue and adjusted ebitda results that were better than our expectations for the quarter” said glenn fogel chief executive of booking bkng  in a statement he added that the company has seen a “meaningful improvement” in bookings so far in the first quarter echoing what its competitors like expedia group inc expe  have reported the travelbooking company whose brands include priceline kayak and bookingcom said gross travel bookings for the quarter were 1901 billion an increase of 160 from the yearago quarter while room nights booked just about doubled to 151 million those numbers fell slightly short of what analysts had expected which were 1905 billion in bookings and 167 million hotelroom nights booking reported fourthquarter net income of 618 million or 1494 a share compared with a loss of 165 million or 402 a share in the yearago period adjusted for foreigncurrency transaction costs investment losses and other costs earnings were 1583 a share revenue more than doubled to 298 billion from 124 billion in the yearago quarter analysts surveyed by factset had forecast earnings of 1330 a share on revenue of 285 billion for the full year booking reported net income of 117 billion or 2817 a share compared with 59 million or 145 a share in the previous year revenue rose to 1096 billion compared with 68 billion in 2020 analysts had expected earnings of 2539 a share on revenue of 1084 billion booking’s stock alternately rose and fell slightly less than 1 after hours after falling about 19 in the regular session to close at 246983 shares of booking have risen about 35 year to date while the sp 500 index spx has declined almost 11 so far this year see expedia optimistic about travel recovery boosting stock despite mixed results