CUK vs. NCLH, LRN, MANU, STRA, ATAT, SPB, LEG, PENN, CENTA, and CMPR
Should you be buying Carnival Co. & stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carnival Co. & include Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), Stride (LRN), Manchester United (MANU), Strategic Education (STRA), Atour Lifestyle (ATAT), Spectrum Brands (SPB), Leggett & Platt (LEG), PENN Entertainment (PENN), Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), and Cimpress (CMPR). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Carnival Co. & (NYSE:CUK) and Norwegian Cruise Line (NYSE:NCLH) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.
23.8% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.6% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Norwegian Cruise Line had 31 more articles in the media than Carnival Co. &. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Norwegian Cruise Line and 8 mentions for Carnival Co. &. Norwegian Cruise Line's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Carnival Co. &'s score of -0.13 indicating that Norwegian Cruise Line is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.59, suggesting that its share price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Norwegian Cruise Line has a beta of 2.6, suggesting that its share price is 160% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Norwegian Cruise Line has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Carnival Co. &. Carnival Co. & is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Norwegian Cruise Line, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Norwegian Cruise Line has a net margin of 1.94% compared to Carnival Co. &'s net margin of 1.79%. Norwegian Cruise Line's return on equity of 108.69% beat Carnival Co. &'s return on equity.
Norwegian Cruise Line has a consensus target price of $20.87, suggesting a potential upside of 29.77%. Given Norwegian Cruise Line's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Norwegian Cruise Line is more favorable than Carnival Co. &.
Carnival Co. & received 264 more outperform votes than Norwegian Cruise Line when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.66% of users gave Carnival Co. & an outperform vote while only 31.58% of users gave Norwegian Cruise Line an outperform vote.
Summary
Norwegian Cruise Line beats Carnival Co. & on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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