CCL vs. MAR, RCL, H, CHH, VAC, MCS, ABNB, BIP, NCLH, and KEX
Should you be buying Carnival Co. & stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carnival Co. & include Marriott International (MAR), Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), Hyatt Hotels (H), Choice Hotels International (CHH), Marriott Vacations Worldwide (VAC), Marcus (MCS), Airbnb (ABNB), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP), Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH), and Kirby (KEX).
Carnival Co. & (NYSE:CCL) and Marriott International (NASDAQ:MAR) are both large-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation and media sentiment.
Carnival Co. & presently has a consensus target price of $21.53, suggesting a potential upside of 28.90%. Marriott International has a consensus target price of $241.33, suggesting a potential upside of 4.43%. Given Carnival Co. &'s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Carnival Co. & is more favorable than Marriott International.
Marriott International has a net margin of 12.00% compared to Carnival Co. &'s net margin of 1.79%. Carnival Co. &'s return on equity of 7.75% beat Marriott International's return on equity.
67.2% of Carnival Co. & shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.7% of Marriott International shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.0% of Carnival Co. & shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.3% of Marriott International shares are owned by company 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.
Carnival Co. & received 165 more outperform votes than Marriott International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.78% of users gave Carnival Co. & an outperform vote while only 60.94% of users gave Marriott International an outperform vote.
Marriott International has higher revenue and earnings than Carnival Co. &. Marriott International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carnival Co. &, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Carnival Co. & had 10 more articles in the media than Marriott International. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Carnival Co. & and 12 mentions for Marriott International. Marriott International's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Carnival Co. &'s score of 0.85 indicating that Marriott International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Carnival Co. & has a beta of 2.57, indicating that its stock price is 157% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marriott International has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Carnival Co. & and Marriott International tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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