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CUK vs. BIP, PAA, LTM, PAC, ZTO, MMYT, NCLH, ASR, DINO, and AAL

Should you be buying Carnival stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carnival include Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP), Plains All American Pipeline (PAA), LATAM Airlines Group (LTM), Grupo Aeroportuario Del Pacifico (PAC), ZTO Express (Cayman) (ZTO), MakeMyTrip (MMYT), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste (ASR), HF Sinclair (DINO), and American Airlines Group (AAL). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.

Carnival vs. Its Competitors

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (NYSE:BIP) and Carnival (NYSE:CUK) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.

57.9% of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.8% of Carnival shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Carnival shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Carnival has a net margin of 9.72% compared to Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' net margin of 1.41%. Carnival's return on equity of 27.88% beat Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners1.41% 1.04% 0.29%
Carnival 9.72%27.88%5.20%

Carnival has higher revenue and earnings than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carnival, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners$21.04B0.71$351M-$0.02-1,615.25
Carnival$25.02B0.20$1.92B$1.8514.67

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners presently has a consensus target price of $41.67, suggesting a potential upside of 28.98%. Given Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is more favorable than Carnival.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.14
Carnival
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carnival has a beta of 2.7, indicating that its share price is 170% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners both had 6 articles in the media. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Carnival's score of 0.37 indicating that Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Carnival
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

Carnival beats Brookfield Infrastructure Partners on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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.
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CUK vs. The Competition

MetricCarnivalLEISURE&REC SVS IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$5.28B$9.25B$8.41B$21.15B
Dividend YieldN/A2.01%3.08%3.58%
P/E Ratio14.6746.3621.2727.76
Price / Sales0.202.383.2758.39
Price / Cash0.9114.4616.9323.00
Price / Book0.513.854.854.67
Net Income$1.92B$328.98M$215.28M$993.85M
7 Day Performance0.72%6.54%2.13%1.48%
1 Month Performance17.05%16.62%42.52%5.79%
1 Year Performance73.51%4.36%16.57%11.41%

Carnival Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CUK
Carnival
1.4739 of 5 stars
$27.15
-3.3%
N/A+62.8%$5.28B$25.02B14.67115,000
BIP
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners
4.81 of 5 stars
$32.33
-0.2%
$41.67
+28.9%
+4.0%$15.05B$21.04B-1,615.8461,000Upcoming Earnings
PAA
Plains All American Pipeline
2.8442 of 5 stars
$18.55
-1.9%
$20.75
+11.9%
+3.1%$13.05B$50.09B25.414,100Positive News
LTM
LATAM Airlines Group
2.7378 of 5 stars
$41.17
-0.2%
$38.00
-7.7%
+1,202.1%$12.47B$12.83B11.5938,664Upcoming Earnings
PAC
Grupo Aeroportuario Del Pacifico
2.5826 of 5 stars
$228.49
+0.7%
$200.00
-12.5%
+36.7%$11.46B$1.84B23.913,275News Coverage
Earnings Report
Upcoming Earnings
ZTO
ZTO Express (Cayman)
3.4866 of 5 stars
$18.93
-0.3%
$21.76
+15.0%
+4.2%$11.36B$6.07B11.9824,471Gap Down
MMYT
MakeMyTrip
2.6842 of 5 stars
$97.70
+1.7%
$121.67
+24.5%
+11.8%$10.69B$978.34M76.265,122Trending News
Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
NCLH
Norwegian Cruise Line
4.2866 of 5 stars
$23.22
-1.6%
$25.42
+9.5%
+22.3%$10.54B$9.48B14.9341,700Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
ASR
Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste
0.9955 of 5 stars
$308.09
-1.3%
$310.00
+0.6%
-1.3%$9.36B$1.72B11.601,936Earnings Report
High Trading Volume
DINO
HF Sinclair
4.5622 of 5 stars
$44.40
+1.0%
$48.45
+9.1%
-9.6%$8.28B$28.58B0.005,297News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Downgrade
AAL
American Airlines Group
4.0874 of 5 stars
$12.32
-1.5%
$15.89
+29.0%
+12.7%$8.25B$54.21B13.69133,300Trending News
Earnings Report
Gap Down

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