Carnival is a travel company located in Florida, United States, which is part of the Industrials sector, and is traded under the ticker CCL on the NYSE exchange.
Carnival stock last closed at $14.18, up 0.42% from the previous day, and has increased 44.11% in one year. It has overperformed other stocks in the Travel Services industry by 0.15 percentage points. Carnival stock is currently +62.99% from its 52-week low of $8.70, and -28.17% from its 52-week high of $19.74.
At the moment, there are 1.31B shares of CCL outstanding. The market cap of CCL is $18.58B. In the past 24 hours, 22.96M CCL shares were traded.
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Out of 14 Equities analysts who give ratings on CCL, the consensus analyst rating on CCL is a Strong Buy
It's important to keep in mind that analyst ratings are not stock recommendations, nor are they investment advice.
Matthew Boss, a top 11% analyst from JP Morgan maintains CCL with a strong buy rating and raises their CCL price target from $22.00 to $23.00, on Mar 28, 2024.
Paul Golding, a bottom 8% analyst from Macquarie maintains CCL with a buy rating and raises their CCL price target from $22.00 to $24.00, on Mar 28, 2024.
Macquarie's Paul Golding raised their price target on Carnival (NYSE: CCL) by 9.1% from $22 to $24 on 2024/03/28. The analyst maintained their Buy rating on the stock.
Golding said Carnival's Q1 2024 EBITDA, ramped up by better-than-expected costs and record bookings over Wave Season, was the driver behind their price target hike.
Looking ahead, their firm "remains positive on the name thanks to continued demand strength, an extended booking curve, and added visibility to fundamentals," the analyst added.
For Q1 2024, Carnival reported:
Management guided, on a constant currency basis:
For Q2 2024:
For FY 2024:
CEO Josh Weinstein commented: “ We delivered another strong quarter that outperformed guidance on every measure, while concluding a monumental wave season that achieved all-time high booking volumes at considerably higher prices.
"These results are a continuation of the strong demand we have been generating across our brands and all core deployments, leading to an upward revision of full year expectations by more than a point of incremental yield improvement and setting us up nicely to deliver a nearly double-digit improvement in net yields.
"With much of this year on the books, we have even greater conviction in delivering record revenues and EBITDA, along with a step change improvement in operating performance, and have begun turning more of our attention to delivering an even stronger 2025.”
Ben Chaiken, a bottom 13% analyst from Mizuho initiates coverage on CCL with a strong buy rating and announces their CCL price target of $21.00, on Mar 26, 2024.
Lizzie Dove, a top 38% analyst from Goldman Sachs initiates coverage on CCL with a strong buy rating and announces their CCL price target of $20.00, on Mar 13, 2024.
Patrick Scholes, a top 4% analyst from Truist Securities maintains CCL with a hold rating and raises their CCL price target from $15.00 to $18.00, on Jan 18, 2024.
You can dive deeper into what analysts are forecasting on the Carnival stock forecast page.
Last year, CCL earnings were $405.00M. In the past five year, CCL's earnings have grown by -40.82% per year. This was slower than the Travel Services industry average of 49.68%.
Last year, CCL revenue was $22.57B. During the last five year, CCL's revenue has grown by 3.15% per year. This was slower than the Travel Services industry average of 11.44%.
Learn more about CCL's earnings and revenue performance here.
In the last year, executives and large shareholders at CCL have bought more shares than they have sold.
David 1. Bernstein, CFO CAO of CCL, was the latest CCL insider to sell. They sold $2,367,057.15 worth of CCL shares on Feb 15, 2024.
Get more info about who owns CCL stock here.
No, Carnival doesn't provide an income stream by paying out dividends.
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