NCLH vs. CUK, CCL, RCL, LNW, VFC, TKO, HRB, CHH, BYD, and LBTYA
Should you be buying Norwegian Cruise Line stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Norwegian Cruise Line include Carnival Co. & (CUK), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Light & Wonder (LNW), V.F. (VFC), TKO Group (TKO), H&R Block (HRB), Choice Hotels International (CHH), Boyd Gaming (BYD), and Liberty Global (LBTYA). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Carnival Co. & (NYSE:CUK) and Norwegian Cruise Line (NYSE:NCLH) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Norwegian Cruise Line has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Carnival Co. &. Norwegian Cruise Line is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carnival Co. &, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
16.8% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.5% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Norwegian Cruise Line has a net margin of -11.88% compared to Norwegian Cruise Line's net margin of -19.83%. Norwegian Cruise Line's return on equity of -41.35% beat Carnival Co. &'s return on equity.
Norwegian Cruise Line has a consensus price target of $19.50, indicating a potential upside of 26.71%. Given Carnival Co. &'s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Norwegian Cruise Line is more favorable than Carnival Co. &.
Carnival Co. & received 267 more outperform votes than Norwegian Cruise Line when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.66% of users gave Carnival Co. & an outperform vote while only 35.87% of users gave Norwegian Cruise Line an outperform vote.
Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.45, indicating that its share price is 145% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Norwegian Cruise Line has a beta of 2.61, indicating that its share price is 161% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Norwegian Cruise Line had 8 more articles in the media than Carnival Co. &. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Norwegian Cruise Line and 7 mentions for Carnival Co. &. Carnival Co. &'s average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Norwegian Cruise Line's score of 0.16 indicating that Norwegian Cruise Line is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Norwegian Cruise Line beats Carnival Co. & on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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