CCL vs. RCL, NCLH, IHG, WMG, FOXA, H, NWS, EDU, TKO, and SNA
Should you be buying Carnival Co. & stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carnival Co. & include Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Warner Music Group (WMG), FOX (FOXA), Hyatt Hotels (H), News (NWS), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), TKO Group (TKO), and Snap-on (SNA). 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 superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
Carnival Co. & received 58 more outperform votes than Royal Caribbean Cruises when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.23% of users gave Royal Caribbean Cruises an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave Carnival Co. & an outperform vote.
Royal Caribbean Cruises presently has a consensus price target of $147.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.40%. Carnival Co. & has a consensus price target of $21.53, suggesting a potential upside of 48.36%. Given Royal Caribbean Cruises' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Carnival Co. & is more favorable than Royal Caribbean Cruises.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a beta of 2.49, suggesting that its share price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.53, suggesting that its share price is 153% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a net margin of 14.28% compared to Royal Caribbean Cruises' net margin of 1.79%. Carnival Co. &'s return on equity of 51.54% beat Royal Caribbean Cruises' return on equity.
87.5% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 67.2% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.0% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Royal Caribbean Cruises had 7 more articles in the media than Carnival Co. &. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Royal Caribbean Cruises and 11 mentions for Carnival Co. &. Royal Caribbean Cruises' average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Carnival Co. &'s score of 1.05 indicating that Carnival Co. & is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
Summary
Royal Caribbean Cruises beats Carnival Co. & on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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