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Prediction Series · Lock · Issue P-284
Prediction Series · P-284

The outlook was trimmed — so we did not lean on it.

91% probability Amadeus IT Group's FY2026 revenue reaches at least EUR 6.4bn. H1 revenue was EUR 3,334.9m, up 5.1% at constant currency, with adjusted EBIT of EUR 1,011.5m. Amadeus trimmed its full-year outlook on Middle East travel disruption, and this threshold is anchored on banked results instead.

Type · Prediction Lock · level-anchored floor, travel technology Locked · 2026-09-02 · before the FY2026 result Resolves · ~2027-02-26 · Amadeus FY2026 results (amadeus.com) Scored · binary: reported FY2026 group REVENUE >= EUR 6.4bn yes/no
Amadeus FY2026 revenue · our locked floor
EUR 6.4bn
full-year group revenue · vs EUR 3,334.9m banked in H1

Amadeus IT Group reported H1 2026 revenue of EUR 3,334.9m, up 5.1% at constant currency, with adjusted EBIT of EUR 1,011.5m, up 4.9% at constant currency. Free cash flow was EUR 472.2m, up 0.8%, and net financial debt was EUR 2,577.5m at 30 June 2026, equal to 1.0 times last-twelve-month EBITDA. Capital expenditure is projected at 10-12% of revenue. Management noted that the wider-than-typical full-year outlook range reflects uncertainty around geopolitical developments and their impact on travel flows, with the Middle East situation significantly affecting global air traffic from March; the company's diversified business provided resilience against volume impacts. Reporting indicates the 2026 outlook was trimmed. Source: Amadeus H1 2026 results.

— 1 · The Locked Call

Amadeus' FY2026 revenue is at least EUR 6.4bn — P = 0.91.

We lock a binary: Amadeus IT Group's reported group revenue for full-year 2026 is EUR 6.4bn or higher. Confidence 91%.

H1 banked EUR 3,334.9m. The threshold asks the second half for roughly EUR 3.07bn — about 8% less than the first half delivered.

— 2 · We could not verify the revised guidance range, so we did not use it

Amadeus trimmed its outlook. We know that it did, not what to.

Reporting on this result indicates Amadeus trimmed its 2026 outlook, and management described a wider-than-typical range reflecting geopolitical uncertainty. We could not establish the revised range itself to the standard this series requires before setting a threshold against it.

That leaves two honest options: drop the candidate, as we did with Prosus in the previous tranche when we could not pin which fiscal year a target belonged to, or anchor on something we can verify. Here the second applies, because the H1 actuals are solid and specific — EUR 3,334.9m of revenue, EUR 1,011.5m of adjusted EBIT — and a threshold set below banked results does not need the forward range at all. The criterion is labelled level-anchored rather than guidance-anchored so that no reader mistakes it for a test against a company forecast.

The distinction from Prosus matters: there, the ambiguity went to the fundamental question of which year was being described, which no amount of care could work around. Here the ambiguity is confined to a forward range the lock simply does not depend on.

On substance, Amadeus is the reservation and distribution technology behind a large share of the world's airline and hotel bookings, charging per transaction. That makes it a levered play on travel volume, and the Middle East disruption from March hit air traffic directly. Against that, the business has diversified into hospitality and payments, which is what management credits for the resilience. The residual 9% is a further deterioration in travel flows in the second half.

Locked on 2026-09-02 — scored against Amadeus' reported FY2026 group revenue.

RAOSCAFF locks P-284 on 2026-09-02, before the FY2026 result. Scored against group revenue as reported by Amadeus IT Group for the twelve months to 31 December 2026.

Locked
2026-09-02 (commit timestamp on origin/main)
Resolves
~2027-02-26 — Amadeus IT Group S.A. FY2026 full-year results
Source
Amadeus IT Group S.A. FY2026 results, group REVENUE in euros (amadeus.com investor relations)
Scored by
Binary: YES if reported FY2026 group REVENUE is EUR 6.4bn or greater; NO if below. Group revenue as reported in euros — NOT revenue at constant currency (H1 growth was quoted on that basis), NOT adjusted EBIT (EUR 1,011.5m in H1), NOT free cash flow, and NOT a single segment such as Air Distribution or Hospitality. This threshold is LEVEL-ANCHORED on banked H1 results; the company's revised full-year outlook range could not be verified to this series' standard and is NOT the anchor.

The floor asks H2 for about 8% less than H1 delivered, and depends on no forward figure we could not check.