CCL vs. RCL, NCLH, H, IHG, SNA, EDU, TKO, FOXA, POOL, and NWS
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), Hyatt Hotels (H), InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Snap-on (SNA), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), TKO Group (TKO), FOX (FOXA), Pool (POOL), and News (NWS). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE:RCL) and Carnival Co. & (NYSE:CCL) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Royal Caribbean Cruises presently has a consensus target price of $136.94, indicating a potential upside of 6.24%. Carnival Co. & has a consensus target price of $21.47, indicating a potential upside of 52.40%. Given Royal Caribbean Cruises' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Carnival Co. & is more favorable than Royal Caribbean Cruises.
Carnival Co. & received 61 more outperform votes than Royal Caribbean Cruises when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.18% of users gave Royal Caribbean Cruises an outperform vote while only 62.75% of users gave Carnival Co. & an outperform vote.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a net margin of 12.22% compared to Royal Caribbean Cruises' net margin of 1.79%. Carnival Co. &'s return on equity of 45.55% beat Royal Caribbean Cruises' return on equity.
In the previous week, Royal Caribbean Cruises had 9 more articles in the media than Carnival Co. &. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Royal Caribbean Cruises and 15 mentions for Carnival Co. &. Carnival Co. &'s average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Royal Caribbean Cruises' score of 0.34 indicating that Royal Caribbean Cruises is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
87.5% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.2% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by institutional investors. 8.7% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.0% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a beta of 2.52, indicating that its stock price is 152% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.54, indicating that its stock price is 154% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Royal Caribbean Cruises beats Carnival Co. & on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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