RCL vs. CCL, CHTR, DKNG, LULU, TCOM, EA, LVS, HLT, TTWO, and LYV
Should you be buying Royal Caribbean Cruises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royal Caribbean Cruises include Carnival Co. & (CCL), Charter Communications (CHTR), DraftKings (DKNG), Lululemon Athletica (LULU), Trip.com Group (TCOM), Electronic Arts (EA), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), Hilton Worldwide (HLT), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), and Live Nation Entertainment (LYV). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE:RCL) and Carnival Co. & (NYSE:CCL) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and risk.
Carnival Co. & received 58 more outperform votes than Royal Caribbean Cruises when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.25% of users gave Royal Caribbean Cruises an outperform vote while only 62.82% of users gave Carnival Co. & an outperform vote.
87.5% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.2% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.0% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Royal Caribbean Cruises had 9 more articles in the media than Carnival Co. &. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Royal Caribbean Cruises and 7 mentions for Carnival Co. &. Royal Caribbean Cruises' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Carnival Co. &'s score of 0.73 indicating that Royal Caribbean Cruises is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Royal Caribbean Cruises currently has a consensus price target of $147.38, indicating a potential downside of 1.00%. Carnival Co. & has a consensus price target of $21.58, indicating a potential upside of 38.24%. Given Carnival Co. &'s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Carnival Co. & is more favorable than Royal Caribbean Cruises.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Carnival Co. &. Royal Caribbean Cruises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carnival Co. &, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a beta of 2.49, meaning that its share price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.53, meaning that its share price is 153% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a net margin of 14.28% compared to Carnival Co. &'s net margin of 1.79%. Royal Caribbean Cruises' return on equity of 51.54% beat Carnival Co. &'s return on equity.
Summary
Royal Caribbean Cruises beats Carnival Co. & on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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