CCL vs. RCL, NCLH, IHG, FOXA, H, PARAA, FWONA, TKO, SNA, and NWS
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), FOX (FOXA), Hyatt Hotels (H), Paramount Global (PARAA), Formula One Group (FWONA), TKO Group (TKO), Snap-on (SNA), and News (NWS). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Carnival Co. & (NYSE:CCL) and Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE:RCL) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Carnival Co. & presently has a consensus target price of $21.47, suggesting a potential upside of 50.17%. Royal Caribbean Cruises has a consensus target price of $146.13, suggesting a potential upside of 3.14%. Given Carnival Co. &'s higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Carnival Co. & is more favorable than Royal Caribbean Cruises.
Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.53, suggesting that its share price is 153% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royal Caribbean Cruises has a beta of 2.49, suggesting that its share price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Carnival Co. & received 58 more outperform votes than Royal Caribbean Cruises when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.21% of users gave Royal Caribbean Cruises an outperform vote while only 62.77% of users gave Carnival Co. & an outperform vote.
67.2% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are held by institutional investors. 11.0% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Royal Caribbean Cruises had 13 more articles in the media than Carnival Co. &. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Royal Caribbean Cruises and 8 mentions for Carnival Co. &. Carnival Co. &'s average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Royal Caribbean Cruises' score of 0.69 indicating that Carnival Co. & is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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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