RCL vs. CCL, LVS, DKNG, EA, TCOM, CHTR, LULU, TTWO, 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), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), DraftKings (DKNG), Electronic Arts (EA), Trip.com Group (TCOM), Charter Communications (CHTR), Lululemon Athletica (LULU), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), Roblox (RBLX), and Live Nation Entertainment (LYV). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE:RCL) and Carnival Co. & (NYSE:CCL) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
Royal Caribbean Cruises currently has a consensus target price of $138.76, indicating a potential downside of 1.30%. Carnival Co. & has a consensus target price of $21.47, indicating a potential upside of 42.40%. Given Carnival Co. &'s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Carnival Co. & is more favorable than Royal Caribbean Cruises.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a net margin of 14.28% compared to Carnival Co. &'s net margin of 1.79%. Royal Caribbean Cruises' return on equity of 51.54% beat Carnival Co. &'s return on equity.
87.5% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.2% of Carnival Co. & shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.7% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.0% of Carnival Co. & shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Carnival Co. & received 58 more outperform votes than Royal Caribbean Cruises when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.27% of users gave Royal Caribbean Cruises an outperform vote while only 62.77% of users gave Carnival Co. & an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Royal Caribbean Cruises had 52 more articles in the media than Carnival Co. &. MarketBeat recorded 75 mentions for Royal Caribbean Cruises and 23 mentions for Carnival Co. &. Carnival Co. &'s average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Royal Caribbean Cruises' score of 0.64 indicating that Carnival Co. & is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a beta of 2.52, meaning that its share price is 152% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.54, meaning that its share price is 154% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Royal Caribbean Cruises beats Carnival Co. & on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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