NCLH vs. RYAAY, VIK, BIP, PAA, PAC, MMYT, ZTO, ASR, AAL, and TFII
Should you be buying Norwegian Cruise Line stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Norwegian Cruise Line include Ryanair (RYAAY), Viking (VIK), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP), Plains All American Pipeline (PAA), Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (PAC), MakeMyTrip (MMYT), ZTO Express (Cayman) (ZTO), Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S. A. B. de C. V. (ASR), American Airlines Group (AAL), and TFI International (TFII). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
Norwegian Cruise Line vs. Its Competitors
Ryanair (NASDAQ:RYAAY) and Norwegian Cruise Line (NYSE:NCLH) are both transportation companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
In the previous week, Norwegian Cruise Line had 3 more articles in the media than Ryanair. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Norwegian Cruise Line and 11 mentions for Ryanair. Ryanair's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Norwegian Cruise Line's score of 0.50 indicating that Ryanair is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ryanair currently has a consensus target price of $147.00, indicating a potential upside of 155.87%. Norwegian Cruise Line has a consensus target price of $25.16, indicating a potential upside of 28.78%. Given Ryanair's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Ryanair is more favorable than Norwegian Cruise Line.
Ryanair has a beta of 1.38, suggesting that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Norwegian Cruise Line has a beta of 2.12, suggesting that its stock price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ryanair has a net margin of 12.14% compared to Norwegian Cruise Line's net margin of 5.87%. Norwegian Cruise Line's return on equity of 99.31% beat Ryanair's return on equity.
43.7% of Ryanair shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.6% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ryanair has higher revenue and earnings than Norwegian Cruise Line. Norwegian Cruise Line is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ryanair, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ryanair received 534 more outperform votes than Norwegian Cruise Line when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.63% of users gave Ryanair an outperform vote while only 35.38% of users gave Norwegian Cruise Line an outperform vote.
Summary
Ryanair beats Norwegian Cruise Line on 11 of the 18 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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This page (NYSE:NCLH) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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