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JPMorgan raises its price target on Amadeus to EUR 70 from EUR 61, reflecting a positive outlook on the travel technology firm.

Amadeus is the toll booth on global travel: it is the #1 player with roughly 50% share in its core segments, connecting 400+ airlines to travel sellers and running mission-critical airline IT systems that handle check-in, boarding, luggage, and takeoff. AI disintermediation fears have compressed the stock to about 15x P/E, but the businesses are deterministic, high-switching-cost systems of record, not per-seat AI-vulnerable SaaS. Air IT is only ~1% of airline revenue but if it fails planes cannot fly; the GDS has network effects, only three players, and is a poor fit for LLMs due to 30x inference cost, 99.3% LLM uptime versus 99.99% airline requirements, and restricted web scraping. Sabre's share losses reinforce Amadeus's moat. With 15% expected EPS growth, ~3% dividend yield, and fair value around 22x earnings, the stock can deliver ~20% returns without multiple rerating.

AI is likely a tailwind rather than a threat for Amadeus because it can improve engineering productivity: Amadeus has more engineers than Microsoft Office and Outlook combined, and experts expect 1.5x to 10x productivity gains. Even at the low end of 1.5x, earnings could grow by about 10%. Sabre's 30% higher revenue per employee suggests Amadeus has room to improve, so AI can expand margins.