NCLH vs. CUK, CCL, LNW, ROKU, PSO, CZR, BIRK, TAL, HAS, and CROX
Should you be buying Norwegian Cruise Line stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Norwegian Cruise Line include Carnival Co. & (CUK), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Light & Wonder (LNW), Roku (ROKU), Pearson (PSO), Caesars Entertainment (CZR), Birkenstock (BIRK), TAL Education Group (TAL), Hasbro (HAS), and Crocs (CROX). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Norwegian Cruise Line (NYSE:NCLH) and Carnival Co. & (NYSE:CUK) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
69.6% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.8% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Carnival Co. & 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.
Norwegian Cruise Line has a net margin of 3.84% compared to Carnival Co. &'s net margin of 1.79%. Norwegian Cruise Line's return on equity of 136.20% beat Carnival Co. &'s return on equity.
Norwegian Cruise Line currently has a consensus price target of $20.67, indicating a potential upside of 27.57%. Given Norwegian Cruise Line's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Norwegian Cruise Line is more favorable than Carnival Co. &.
Norwegian Cruise Line has a beta of 2.59, meaning that its share price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.58, meaning that its share price is 158% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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 30.51% of users gave Norwegian Cruise Line an outperform vote.
Norwegian Cruise Line has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Carnival Co. &. Norwegian Cruise Line is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carnival Co. &, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Norwegian Cruise Line had 49 more articles in the media than Carnival Co. &. MarketBeat recorded 58 mentions for Norwegian Cruise Line and 9 mentions for Carnival Co. &. Carnival Co. &'s average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat Norwegian Cruise Line's score of 0.26 indicating that Carnival Co. & is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Norwegian Cruise Line beats Carnival Co. & on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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