NCLH vs. CCL, BIP, KEX, TDW, MATX, INSW, GOGL, GLNG, CUK, and TNK
Should you be buying Norwegian Cruise Line stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Norwegian Cruise Line include Carnival Co. & (CCL), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP), Kirby (KEX), Tidewater (TDW), Matson (MATX), International Seaways (INSW), Golden Ocean Group (GOGL), Golar LNG (GLNG), Carnival Co. & (CUK), and Teekay Tankers (TNK). These companies are all part of the "water transportation" industry.
Carnival Co. & (NYSE:CCL) and Norwegian Cruise Line (NYSE:NCLH) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
67.2% of Carnival Co. & shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.6% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.0% of Carnival Co. & shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Norwegian Cruise Line has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Carnival Co. & currently has a consensus target price of $21.53, indicating a potential upside of 42.75%. Norwegian Cruise Line has a consensus target price of $21.25, indicating a potential upside of 28.01%. Given Norwegian Cruise Line's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Carnival Co. & is more favorable than Norwegian Cruise Line.
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.
In the previous week, Norwegian Cruise Line had 24 more articles in the media than Carnival Co. &. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Norwegian Cruise Line and 15 mentions for Carnival Co. &. Carnival Co. &'s average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Norwegian Cruise Line's score of 0.38 indicating that Norwegian Cruise Line is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Carnival Co. & received 956 more outperform votes than Norwegian Cruise Line when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.78% of users gave Carnival Co. & an outperform vote while only 30.47% of users gave Norwegian Cruise Line an outperform vote.
Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.53, meaning that its stock price is 153% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Norwegian Cruise Line has a beta of 2.59, meaning that its stock price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Norwegian Cruise Line beats Carnival Co. & on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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