NYSE:CCLCarnival Stock Price, Forecast & News

Carnival's stock was trading at $21.75 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, CCL shares have decreased by 33.5% and is now trading at $14.4650. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

23 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Carnival in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 12 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Carnival.

Carnival is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, September 24th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Carnival.

Carnival Corp (NYSE:CCL) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, June, 18th. The company reported ($3.30) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of ($1.56) by $1.74. The company had revenue of $700 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $737.81 million. Carnival had a positive return on equity of 0.06% and a negative net margin of 17.57%. Carnival's revenue was down 85.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.49 earnings per share. View Carnival's earnings history.

Carnival declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, January 16th. Investors 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 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 13.83%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 20th. View Carnival's dividend history.

23 analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Carnival's stock. Their forecasts range from $6.00 to $53.00. On average, they anticipate Carnival's share price to reach $21.57 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 49.1% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Carnival.

News headlines about CCL stock have been trending negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Carnival earned a daily sentiment score of -2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View the latest news about Carnival.

Carnival saw a increase in short interest in the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 122,360,000 shares, an increase of 8.2% from the June 15th total of 113,070,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 73,700,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.7 days. Currently, 26.0% of the company's stock are short sold. View Carnival's Current Options Chain.

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). View all competitors.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Carnival investors own include Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), Boeing (BA), Walt Disney (DIS), Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Delta Air Lines (DAL), General Electric (GE), AT&T (T), Bank of America (BAC), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) and NVIDIA (NVDA).

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

Carnival's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.06%), DNB Asset Management AS (0.01%), Municipal Employees Retirement System of Michigan (0.00%) and Modus Advisors LLC (0.00%). Company insiders that own Carnival stock include Arnaldo Perez, Arnold W Donald, David Bernstein, Randall J Weisenburger, Sir Jonathon Band and Stein Kruse. View institutional ownership trends for Carnival.

CCL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Municipal Employees Retirement System of Michigan. View insider buying and selling activity for Carnival.

CCL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Modus Advisors LLC, and DNB Asset Management AS. Company insiders that have bought Carnival stock in the last two years include Arnold W Donald, and Randall J Weisenburger. View insider buying and selling activity for Carnival.

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 $14.47.

Carnival has a market capitalization of $7.63 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.