NCLH vs. CUK, CCL, PARA, BIRK, LNW, CZR, HAS, PSO, SN, and ROKU
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), Paramount Global (PARA), Birkenstock (BIRK), Light & Wonder (LNW), Caesars Entertainment (CZR), Hasbro (HAS), Pearson (PSO), SharkNinja (SN), and Roku (ROKU). 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 superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Norwegian Cruise Line has a net margin of 1.94% compared to Norwegian Cruise Line's net margin of 1.79%. Carnival Co. &'s return on equity of 108.69% beat Norwegian Cruise Line's return on equity.
Norwegian Cruise Line has a consensus price target of $20.87, suggesting a potential upside of 10.06%. Given Carnival Co. &'s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Norwegian Cruise Line is more favorable than Carnival Co. &.
23.8% of Carnival Co. & shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.6% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Carnival Co. & shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.59, indicating that its share price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Norwegian Cruise Line has a beta of 2.6, indicating that its share price is 160% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Carnival Co. & received 264 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 31.58% of users gave Norwegian Cruise Line an outperform vote.
Norwegian Cruise Line has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Carnival Co. &. Carnival Co. & is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Norwegian Cruise Line, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Carnival Co. & and Carnival Co. & both had 8 articles in the media. Carnival Co. &'s average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Norwegian Cruise Line's score of -0.11 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 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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