NCLH vs. CUK, CCL, BFAM, LBTYK, PVH, HRB, MAT, LBTYA, CHH, and WH
Should you be buying Norwegian Cruise Line stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Norwegian Cruise Line include Carnival Co. & (CUK), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Liberty Global (LBTYK), PVH (PVH), H&R Block (HRB), Mattel (MAT), Liberty Global (LBTYA), Choice Hotels International (CHH), and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (WH). These companies are all part of the "consumer discretionary" sector.
Carnival Co. & (NYSE:CUK) and Norwegian Cruise Line (NYSE:NCLH) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
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.
Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.58, suggesting that its stock price is 158% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Norwegian Cruise Line has a beta of 2.59, suggesting that its stock price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500.
23.8% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.6% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Carnival Co. & shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Norwegian Cruise Line had 14 more articles in the media than Carnival Co. &. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Norwegian Cruise Line and 5 mentions for Carnival Co. &. Norwegian Cruise Line's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Carnival Co. &'s score of 0.26 indicating that Carnival Co. & is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Norwegian Cruise Line has a consensus price target of $20.67, indicating a potential upside of 27.81%. Given Carnival Co. &'s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Norwegian Cruise Line is more favorable than Carnival Co. &.
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. & 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.
Summary
Norwegian Cruise Line beats Carnival Co. & on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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