CUK vs. NCLH, CENTA, PENN, ATGE, MCW, PTVE, LAUR, CRI, SPB, and TGNA
Should you be buying Carnival Co. & stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carnival Co. & include Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), PENN Entertainment (PENN), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Mister Car Wash (MCW), Pactiv Evergreen (PTVE), Laureate Education (LAUR), Carter's (CRI), Spectrum Brands (SPB), and TEGNA (TGNA). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Norwegian Cruise Line (NYSE:NCLH) and Carnival Co. & (NYSE:CUK) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, earnings and profitability.
Norwegian Cruise Line has a net margin of 3.84% compared to Norwegian Cruise Line's net margin of 1.79%. Carnival Co. &'s return on equity of 136.20% beat Norwegian Cruise Line's return on equity.
Norwegian Cruise Line currently has a consensus target price of $20.67, indicating a potential upside of 29.98%. Given Carnival Co. &'s higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Norwegian Cruise Line is more favorable than Carnival Co. &.
Norwegian Cruise Line has a beta of 2.59, meaning that its stock price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.58, meaning that its stock price is 158% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Norwegian Cruise Line had 3 more articles in the media than Carnival Co. &. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Norwegian Cruise Line and 5 mentions for Carnival Co. &. Carnival Co. &'s average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Norwegian Cruise Line's score of 0.39 indicating that Norwegian Cruise Line is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 30.25% of users gave Norwegian Cruise Line an outperform vote.
69.6% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.8% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Norwegian Cruise Line has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Carnival Co. &. Norwegian Cruise Line 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
Norwegian Cruise Line beats Carnival Co. & on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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