RCL vs. ABNB, MAR, CCL, H, CHH, VAC, MCS, BIP, KEX, and NCLH
Should you be buying Royal Caribbean Cruises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royal Caribbean Cruises include Airbnb (ABNB), Marriott International (MAR), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Hyatt Hotels (H), Choice Hotels International (CHH), Marriott Vacations Worldwide (VAC), Marcus (MCS), Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP), Kirby (KEX), and Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH).
Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE:RCL) and Airbnb (NASDAQ:ABNB) 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 community ranking, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
87.5% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.8% of Airbnb shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.0% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 27.8% of Airbnb shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Airbnb has a net margin of 48.23% compared to Royal Caribbean Cruises' net margin of 14.28%. Royal Caribbean Cruises' return on equity of 51.54% beat Airbnb's return on equity.
Airbnb has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Royal Caribbean Cruises. Royal Caribbean Cruises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Airbnb, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a beta of 2.49, suggesting that its share price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Airbnb has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Royal Caribbean Cruises presently has a consensus target price of $151.81, indicating a potential upside of 2.80%. Airbnb has a consensus target price of $152.38, indicating a potential upside of 5.14%. Given Airbnb's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Airbnb is more favorable than Royal Caribbean Cruises.
In the previous week, Airbnb had 18 more articles in the media than Royal Caribbean Cruises. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for Airbnb and 24 mentions for Royal Caribbean Cruises. Airbnb's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Royal Caribbean Cruises' score of 0.83 indicating that Airbnb is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Royal Caribbean Cruises received 790 more outperform votes than Airbnb when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.30% of users gave Royal Caribbean Cruises an outperform vote while only 38.80% of users gave Airbnb an outperform vote.
Summary
Royal Caribbean Cruises and Airbnb tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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