NCLH vs. RYAAY, VIK, BIP, PAA, ZTO, MMYT, TFII, AAL, PAC, and ASR
Should you be buying Norwegian Cruise Line stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Norwegian Cruise Line include Ryanair (RYAAY), Viking (VIK), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP), Plains All American Pipeline (PAA), ZTO Express (Cayman) (ZTO), MakeMyTrip (MMYT), TFI International (TFII), American Airlines Group (AAL), Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (PAC), and Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S. A. B. de C. V. (ASR). These companies are all part of the "transportation" industry.
Norwegian Cruise Line vs.
Ryanair (NASDAQ:RYAAY) and Norwegian Cruise Line (NYSE:NCLH) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
Ryanair has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Norwegian Cruise Line has a beta of 2.64, indicating that its share price is 164% more volatile than the S&P 500.
43.7% of Ryanair shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.6% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Norwegian Cruise Line shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ryanair has a net margin of 12.14% compared to Norwegian Cruise Line's net margin of 5.87%. Norwegian Cruise Line's return on equity of 99.31% beat Ryanair's return on equity.
Ryanair presently has a consensus target price of $151.00, indicating a potential upside of 233.00%. Norwegian Cruise Line has a consensus target price of $29.06, indicating a potential upside of 20.73%. Given Ryanair's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ryanair is more favorable than Norwegian Cruise Line.
Ryanair received 545 more outperform votes than Norwegian Cruise Line when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.53% of users gave Ryanair an outperform vote while only 31.18% of users gave Norwegian Cruise Line an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Norwegian Cruise Line had 11 more articles in the media than Ryanair. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Norwegian Cruise Line and 4 mentions for Ryanair. Ryanair's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Norwegian Cruise Line's score of 0.67 indicating that Ryanair is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ryanair has higher revenue and earnings than Norwegian Cruise Line. Ryanair is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Norwegian Cruise Line, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ryanair beats Norwegian Cruise Line on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:NCLH) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
