Carnival Co. & (NYSE:CCL) Vs. RCL, BIP, NCLH, MATX, KEX, CUK, TGP, GOGL, GLNG, and FLNG
Should you be buying Carnival Co. & stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carnival Co. & include Royal Caribbean Group (RCL), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), Matson (MATX), Kirby (KEX), Carnival Co. & (CUK), Teekay LNG Partners (TGP), Golden Ocean Group (GOGL), Golar LNG (GLNG), and FLEX LNG (FLNG). These companies are all part of the "hotels resorts & cruise lines" industry.These companies are all part of the "water transportation" industry.
Carnival Co. & vs.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (NYSE:BIP) and Carnival Co. & (NYSE:CCL) are both large-cap utilities companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners presently has a consensus price target of $65.33, suggesting a potential upside of 12.04%. Carnival Co. & has a consensus price target of $28.52, suggesting a potential upside of 54.17%. Given Carnival Co. &'s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Carnival Co. & is more favorable than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners.
Carnival Co. & received 421 more outperform votes than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.88% of users gave Brookfield Infrastructure Partners an outperform vote while only 65.16% of users gave Carnival Co. & an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Carnival Co. & had 4 more articles in the media than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Carnival Co. & and 1 mentions for Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Carnival Co. &'s average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' score of -0.68 indicating that Carnival Co. & is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
52.5% of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.6% of Carnival Co. & shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.3% of Carnival Co. & shares are owned by 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.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Carnival Co. &. Carnival Co. & is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.16, indicating that its share price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a net margin of 10.41% compared to Carnival Co. &'s net margin of -1,387.65%. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' return on equity of 5.27% beat Carnival Co. &'s return on equity.
Summary
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners beats Carnival Co. & on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CCL and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment >-1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Carnival Co. & (NYSE:CCL) vs. Its Competitors
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