CUK vs. KEX, NCLH, TDW, MATX, INSW, GOGL, GLNG, TNK, NAT, and CLCO
Should you be buying Carnival Co. & stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carnival Co. & include Kirby (KEX), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), Tidewater (TDW), Matson (MATX), International Seaways (INSW), Golden Ocean Group (GOGL), Golar LNG (GLNG), Teekay Tankers (TNK), Nordic American Tankers (NAT), and Cool (CLCO). These companies are all part of the "water transportation" industry.
Carnival Co. & (NYSE:CUK) and Kirby (NYSE:KEX) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
Kirby has a net margin of 8.01% compared to Carnival Co. &'s net margin of 1.79%. Kirby's return on equity of 7.96% beat Carnival Co. &'s return on equity.
Kirby received 232 more outperform votes than Carnival Co. & when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.66% of users gave Carnival Co. & an outperform vote while only 60.73% of users gave Kirby an outperform vote.
Kirby has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Carnival Co. &. Kirby is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carnival Co. &, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.62, indicating that its share price is 162% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kirby has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Carnival Co. & had 2 more articles in the media than Kirby. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Carnival Co. & and 3 mentions for Kirby. Kirby's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Carnival Co. &'s score of 0.32 indicating that Kirby is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
23.8% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.2% of Kirby shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Kirby shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kirby has a consensus price target of $119.50, suggesting a potential upside of 0.78%. Given Kirby's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Kirby is more favorable than Carnival Co. &.
Summary
Kirby beats Carnival Co. & on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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