RCL vs. CCL, DKNG, CHTR, EA, LVS, TCOM, LULU, TTWO, HLT, and RBLX
Should you be buying Royal Caribbean Cruises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royal Caribbean Cruises include Carnival Co. & (CCL), DraftKings (DKNG), Charter Communications (CHTR), Electronic Arts (EA), Las Vegas Sands (LVS), Trip.com Group (TCOM), Lululemon Athletica (LULU), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), Hilton Worldwide (HLT), and Roblox (RBLX). 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 better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability and community ranking.
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.
Carnival Co. & currently has a consensus price target of $21.47, suggesting a potential upside of 51.54%. Royal Caribbean Cruises has a consensus price target of $146.13, suggesting a potential upside of 3.44%. Given Royal Caribbean Cruises' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Carnival Co. & is more favorable than Royal Caribbean Cruises.
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. &. Royal Caribbean Cruises' average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Carnival Co. &'s 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 Royal Caribbean Cruises' net margin of 1.79%. Carnival Co. &'s return on equity of 51.54% beat Royal Caribbean Cruises' return on equity.
Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.53, suggesting that its stock price is 153% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royal Caribbean Cruises has a beta of 2.49, suggesting that its stock price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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 insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are held by 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.
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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