Carnival Stock Forecast, Price & News

Carnival's stock was trading at $21.75 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, CCL stock has decreased by 33.7% and is now trading at $14.41.
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23 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Carnival in the last year. There are currently 5 sell ratings, 13 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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Carnival is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, September 24th 2020.
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Carnival Corp (NYSE:CCL) issued its earnings results on Friday, July, 10th. The company reported ($3.30) EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($1.79) by $1.51. The company had revenue of $740 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $401.40 million. Carnival had a positive return on equity of 0.06% and a negative net margin of 17.53%. The business's revenue was down 84.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.66 earnings per share.
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Carnival declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, January 16th. Shareholders of record on Friday, February 21st will be paid a dividend of $0.50 per share on Friday, March 13th. This represents a $2.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 13.88%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 20th.
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23 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Carnival's shares. Their forecasts range from $10.00 to $50.00. On average, they anticipate Carnival's share price to reach $19.57 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 35.8% from the stock's current price.
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News stories about CCL stock have trended negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Carnival earned a media sentiment score of -2.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future.
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Carnival saw a decline in short interest in August. As of August 14th, there was short interest totaling 84,510,000 shares, a decline of 32.8% from the July 30th total of 125,710,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 44,160,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.9 days. Approximately 18.5% of the company's shares are short sold.
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Some companies that are related to Carnival include Marriott International (MAR), Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Hyatt Hotels (H), Choice Hotels International (CHH), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), Marriott Vacations Worldwide (VAC), Marcus (MCS) and Red Lion Hotels (RLH).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Carnival investors own include Delta Air Lines (DAL), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Walt Disney (DIS), AT&T (T), Tesla (TSLA), Bank of America (BAC), NVIDIA (NVDA), American Airlines Group (AAL) and Boeing (BA).

Carnival trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CCL."

Carnival's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (8.65%), Public Investment Fund (8.46%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.25%), AQR Capital Management LLC (0.89%), Nuveen Asset Management LLC (0.88%) and Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (0.41%). Company insiders that own Carnival stock include Arnaldo Perez, Arnold W Donald, David Bernstein, Randall J Weisenburger, Sir Jonathon Band and Stein Kruse.
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CCL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cooke & Bieler LP, Prudential PLC, Federated Hermes Inc., SG Americas Securities LLC, Pzena Investment Management LLC, New York State Common Retirement Fund, Russell Investments Group Ltd., and Chartwell Investment Partners LLC.
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CCL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Vanguard Group Inc., Public Investment Fund, AQR Capital Management LLC, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Ardevora Asset Management LLP, Aristeia Capital LLC, Two Sigma Advisers LP, and Scout Investments Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Carnival stock in the last two years include Arnold W Donald, and Randall J Weisenburger.
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Shares of CCL can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of CCL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $14.41.

Carnival has a market capitalization of $10.09 billion and generates $20.83 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $2.99 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.40 on an earnings per share basis. Carnival employs 92,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Carnival is www.carnival.com.

Carnival's mailing address is 3655 N W 87TH AVE PO BOX 1347, MIAMI FL, 33178. The company can be reached via phone at 305-599-2600.