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$18.74 -0.31 (-1.63%)
Closing price 03/21/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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CUK vs. BIP, ZTO, MMYT, PAC, NCLH, AAL, ASR, TFII, DINO, and SOBO

Should you be buying Carnival Co. & stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carnival Co. & include Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP), ZTO Express (Cayman) (ZTO), MakeMyTrip (MMYT), Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (PAC), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), American Airlines Group (AAL), Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S. A. B. de C. V. (ASR), TFI International (TFII), HF Sinclair (DINO), and South Bow (SOBO). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.

Carnival Co. & vs.

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

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.72, suggesting that its share price is 172% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Carnival Co. & pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners pays out 4,300.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Carnival Co. & pays out 143.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has increased its dividend for 18 consecutive years. Carnival Co. & is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

57.9% of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.8% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Carnival Co. & has a net margin of 7.66% compared to Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' net margin of 1.64%. Carnival Co. &'s return on equity of 24.13% beat Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners1.64% 1.17% 0.33%
Carnival Co. & 7.66%24.13%3.82%

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners presently has a consensus target price of $42.50, indicating a potential upside of 48.11%. Given Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Brookfield Infrastructure Partners is more favorable than Carnival Co. &.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.29
Carnival Co. &
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

Carnival Co. & has higher revenue and earnings than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners$21.04B0.63$351M$0.04717.38
Carnival Co. &$25.02B0.14$1.92B$1.3913.48

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners received 275 more outperform votes than Carnival Co. & when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.66% of users gave Carnival Co. & an outperform vote while only 64.46% of users gave Brookfield Infrastructure Partners an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Brookfield Infrastructure PartnersOutperform Votes
575
64.46%
Underperform Votes
317
35.54%
Carnival Co. &Outperform Votes
300
64.66%
Underperform Votes
164
35.34%

In the previous week, Carnival Co. & had 3 more articles in the media than Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Carnival Co. & and 8 mentions for Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Carnival Co. &'s score of 0.64 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
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Carnival Co. &
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Carnival Co. & beats Brookfield Infrastructure Partners on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CUK vs. The Competition

MetricCarnival Co. &Water transportation IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$3.52B$7.08B$7.71B$19.55B
Dividend YieldN/A6.32%3.01%3.79%
P/E Ratio13.4864.8616.8233.44
Price / Sales0.142.599.7028.53
Price / Cash0.725.6416.4217.54
Price / Book0.382.954.374.56
Net Income$1.92B$360.99M$260.44M$1.02B
7 Day Performance3.74%2.59%1.74%0.94%
1 Month Performance-10.92%-8.22%-6.46%-3.89%
1 Year Performance20.78%-9.92%-2.83%5.89%

Carnival Co. & Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CUK
Carnival Co. &
0.9981 of 5 stars
$18.74
-1.6%
N/A+21.4%$3.52B$25.02B13.48115,000Earnings Report
Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Gap Down
BIP
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners
4.7847 of 5 stars
$28.18
-1.7%
$42.50
+50.8%
-3.8%$13.08B$21.04B704.6852,000Positive News
ZTO
ZTO Express (Cayman)
3.7652 of 5 stars
$20.02
-0.5%
$24.53
+22.5%
-7.4%$12.09B$41.98B13.8023,554Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Downgrade
Options Volume
News Coverage
MMYT
MakeMyTrip
2.1238 of 5 stars
$84.95
-2.5%
$122.50
+44.2%
+47.5%$9.33B$935.76M46.174,576
PAC
Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico
1.7778 of 5 stars
$184.12
-2.3%
$200.00
+8.6%
+23.4%$9.30B$33.61B18.302,688News Coverage
Positive News
NCLH
Norwegian Cruise Line
4.8009 of 5 stars
$18.72
-6.7%
$29.19
+56.0%
-0.5%$8.23B$9.48B17.1741,000Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
AAL
American Airlines Group
4.629 of 5 stars
$12.50
-4.1%
$19.62
+57.0%
-22.9%$8.22B$54.21B10.97133,300Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
High Trading Volume
ASR
Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S. A. B. de C. V.
2.8392 of 5 stars
$255.63
-4.1%
$310.00
+21.3%
-7.3%$7.67B$29.19B9.641,882Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Positive News
TFII
TFI International
4.6504 of 5 stars
$83.04
-1.0%
$148.93
+79.4%
-49.1%$6.99B$8.40B16.6125,123Dividend Announcement
Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
DINO
HF Sinclair
4.2445 of 5 stars
$31.62
-1.6%
$50.73
+60.4%
-45.6%$5.96B$28.58B38.565,218Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
SOBO
South Bow
N/A$24.88
+3.4%
$25.67
+3.2%
N/A$5.18B$2.12B13.45N/APositive News
High Trading Volume
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