RCL vs. CCL, TCOM, EA, CHTR, LVS, DKNG, TTWO, LULU, RBLX, and LYV
Should you be buying Royal Caribbean Cruises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royal Caribbean Cruises include Carnival Co. & (CCL), Trip.com Group (TCOM), Electronic Arts (EA), Charter Communications (CHTR), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), DraftKings (DKNG), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), Lululemon Athletica (LULU), Roblox (RBLX), and Live Nation Entertainment (LYV). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Carnival Co. & (NYSE:CCL) and Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE:RCL) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk and earnings.
67.2% of Carnival Co. & shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.0% of Carnival Co. & shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% 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 stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Royal Caribbean Cruises had 9 more articles in the media than Carnival Co. &. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Royal Caribbean Cruises and 15 mentions for Carnival Co. &. Carnival Co. &'s average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Royal Caribbean Cruises' score of 0.20 indicating that Royal Caribbean Cruises is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.54, indicating that its stock price is 154% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royal Caribbean Cruises has a beta of 2.52, indicating that its stock price is 152% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Carnival Co. & presently has a consensus price target of $21.47, suggesting a potential upside of 51.44%. Royal Caribbean Cruises has a consensus price target of $136.94, suggesting a potential upside of 7.29%. Given Royal Caribbean Cruises' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Carnival Co. & is more favorable than Royal Caribbean Cruises.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a net margin of 12.22% compared to Royal Caribbean Cruises' net margin of 1.79%. Carnival Co. &'s return on equity of 45.55% beat Royal Caribbean Cruises' return on equity.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Carnival Co. &. Royal Caribbean Cruises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carnival Co. &, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Carnival Co. & received 61 more outperform votes than Royal Caribbean Cruises when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.18% of users gave Royal Caribbean Cruises an outperform vote while only 62.75% of users gave Carnival Co. & an outperform vote.
Summary
Royal Caribbean Cruises beats Carnival Co. & on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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