With 2.67 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.95 million shares. During the session, the Travel Services company that operates in wider Consumer Cyclical sector, reached to the highest price of $218.395 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $212.93. The 52-week range on RCL shows that it touched its highest point at $277.08 and its lowest point at $130.08 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $266.59. With its current market cap of 58.74 billion, RCL has annualized dividend of $1.70 while the current yield stands at 0.79%. RCL paid its most recent dividend on 1741305600, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1741305600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 2.12.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of RCL was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 14.14%, but this was down by -0.43% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -8.66% while six-month performance rose 7.54%. The stock gained 58.20% in the past year, while it has lost -6.23% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for RCL yields 10.54 with Next year EPS estimates of 17.40. For the next quarter, that number is 2.55. This implies an EPS growth rate of 26.58% for this year and 16.52% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 19.10% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 4.10%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 268.90 million RCL shares are outstanding with a float of 246.85 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-15, short shares totaled 10.77 million, which was 396.00000000000006 higher than short shares on 1741910400. In addition to Mr. Jason T. Liberty as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Naftali Holtz serves as its Chief Financial Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.86666 of RCL’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-12-31, RCL reported revenue of $3761000000.0 and operating income of $626000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $1236000000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for RCL since 14 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 9 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With RCL analysts setting a high price target of 330.0 and a low target of 185.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 264.218. Based on these targets, RCL could surge 52.56% to reach the target high and fall by -14.47% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 22.15% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $11.93479 being high and $11.5938 being low. For RCL, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $11.69409. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $4.15 and the low estimate is $3.67. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $3.94.
