CCL vs. RCL, NCLH, WSC, CZR, BJ, NWS, NWSA, CHDN, LBTYK, and ROKU
Should you be buying Carnival Co. & stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carnival Co. & include Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), WillScot Mobile Mini (WSC), Caesars Entertainment (CZR), BJ's Wholesale Club (BJ), News (NWS), News (NWSA), Churchill Downs (CHDN), Liberty Global (LBTYK), and Roku (ROKU). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Carnival Co. & vs.
Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE:RCL) and Carnival Co. & (NYSE:CCL) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
74.3% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.9% of Carnival Co. & shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.3% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.1% of Carnival Co. & shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Royal Caribbean Cruises presently has a consensus price target of $76.23, suggesting a potential upside of 23.19%. Carnival Co. & has a consensus price target of $11.71, suggesting a potential upside of 37.00%. Given Carnival Co. &'s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Carnival Co. & is more favorable than Royal Caribbean Cruises.
Carnival Co. & received 53 more outperform votes than Royal Caribbean Cruises when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.43% of users gave Royal Caribbean Cruises an outperform vote while only 63.33% of users gave Carnival Co. & an outperform vote.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a net margin of -24.39% compared to Carnival Co. &'s net margin of -50.07%. Royal Caribbean Cruises' return on equity of -56.86% beat Carnival Co. &'s return on equity.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Carnival Co. &. Royal Caribbean Cruises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carnival Co. &, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a beta of 2.46, meaning that its share price is 146% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.22, meaning that its share price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Royal Caribbean Cruises pays an annual dividend of $3.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Carnival Co. & pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 23.4%. Royal Caribbean Cruises pays out -36.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Carnival Co. & pays out -38.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Carnival Co. & is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Royal Caribbean Cruises had 1 more articles in the media than Carnival Co. &. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Royal Caribbean Cruises and 12 mentions for Carnival Co. &. Carnival Co. &'s average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Royal Caribbean Cruises' score of 0.42 indicating that Carnival Co. & is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Royal Caribbean Cruises beats Carnival Co. & on 11 of the 20 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. & Competitors List
