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$337.20 -13.03 (-3.72%)
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RCL vs. CROX, GIII, LULU, OSW, STRA, CCL, LYV, NCLH, RL, and SKX

Should you be buying Royal Caribbean Cruises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royal Caribbean Cruises include Crocs (CROX), G-III Apparel Group (GIII), lululemon athletica (LULU), OneSpaWorld (OSW), Strategic Education (STRA), Carnival (CCL), Live Nation Entertainment (LYV), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), Ralph Lauren (RL), and Skechers U.S.A. (SKX). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.

Royal Caribbean Cruises vs. Its Competitors

Crocs (NASDAQ:CROX) and Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE:RCL) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.

Royal Caribbean Cruises has a net margin of 20.97% compared to Crocs' net margin of 5.72%. Royal Caribbean Cruises' return on equity of 47.15% beat Crocs' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Crocs5.72% 44.15% 16.12%
Royal Caribbean Cruises 20.97%47.15%10.19%

Crocs currently has a consensus price target of $105.33, suggesting a potential upside of 36.04%. Royal Caribbean Cruises has a consensus price target of $327.14, suggesting a potential downside of 2.98%. Given Crocs' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Crocs is more favorable than Royal Caribbean Cruises.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Crocs
1 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.54
Royal Caribbean Cruises
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
18 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.87

Crocs has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royal Caribbean Cruises has a beta of 2.12, meaning that its share price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500.

93.4% of Crocs shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.0% of Crocs shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Royal Caribbean Cruises had 13 more articles in the media than Crocs. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Royal Caribbean Cruises and 16 mentions for Crocs. Royal Caribbean Cruises' average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Crocs' score of 1.03 indicating that Royal Caribbean Cruises is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Crocs
9 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Royal Caribbean Cruises
20 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Royal Caribbean Cruises has higher revenue and earnings than Crocs. Crocs is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Royal Caribbean Cruises, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Crocs$4.14B1.02$950.07M$3.7320.76
Royal Caribbean Cruises$17.18B5.33$2.88B$13.3425.28

Summary

Royal Caribbean Cruises beats Crocs on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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RCL vs. The Competition

MetricRoyal Caribbean CruisesLEISURE&REC SVS IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$95.13B$8.99B$8.40B$21.58B
Dividend Yield0.88%2.16%2.99%3.48%
P/E Ratio25.2818.0918.5529.75
Price / Sales5.332.745.2386.40
Price / Cash19.0811.7617.0525.00
Price / Book11.723.995.104.58
Net Income$2.88B$331.00M$256.92M$999.94M
7 Day Performance-4.32%0.31%2.05%0.68%
1 Month Performance7.58%1.09%18.15%3.10%
1 Year Performance100.81%5.14%52.01%14.39%

Royal Caribbean Cruises Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
RCL
Royal Caribbean Cruises
4.5206 of 5 stars
$337.20
-3.7%
$327.14
-3.0%
+103.7%$95.13B$17.18B25.28106,000News Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Increase
CROX
Crocs
4.2018 of 5 stars
$86.89
+0.5%
$105.33
+21.2%
-39.4%$4.75B$4.10B23.337,910News Coverage
GIII
G-III Apparel Group
2.8959 of 5 stars
$27.10
+4.4%
$29.60
+9.2%
-11.7%$1.17B$3.18B6.674,600News Coverage
LULU
lululemon athletica
4.7061 of 5 stars
$168.09
+0.2%
$245.79
+46.2%
-38.5%$19.96B$10.59B11.3239,000Trending News
Analyst Downgrade
Options Volume
Analyst Revision
High Trading Volume
OSW
OneSpaWorld
4.6762 of 5 stars
$22.03
+0.3%
$22.67
+2.9%
+40.0%$2.26B$895.02M32.345,191Positive News
STRA
Strategic Education
4.3154 of 5 stars
$83.06
+1.3%
$99.33
+19.6%
-11.1%$1.98B$1.22B17.253,801Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
CCL
Carnival
4.6727 of 5 stars
$31.54
-0.1%
$30.71
-2.6%
+86.4%$36.85B$25.02B17.06100,000Positive News
LYV
Live Nation Entertainment
4.1307 of 5 stars
$169.10
+3.5%
$168.94
-0.1%
+78.6%$39.65B$23.16B73.2032,200Positive News
Analyst Forecast
NCLH
Norwegian Cruise Line
3.9636 of 5 stars
$24.59
-4.2%
$27.50
+11.9%
+40.2%$11.10B$9.48B16.9441,700Analyst Forecast
RL
Ralph Lauren
4.3753 of 5 stars
$307.52
-1.4%
$307.88
+0.1%
+79.8%$18.64B$7.08B24.5823,400Trending News
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
SKX
Skechers U.S.A.
4.1746 of 5 stars
$63.24
+0.0%
$66.46
+5.1%
-4.8%$9.50B$8.97B14.4320,100Short Interest ↓

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