Carnival plc ADR (NYSE: CUK) Stock: Does It Mean Opportunity?

In today’s recent session, 0.81 million shares of the Carnival plc ADR (NYSE:CUK) have been traded, and its beta is 2.59. Most recently the company’s share price was $16.06, and it changed around -$0.02 or -0.12% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $2.33B. CUK at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $26.14, offering almost -62.76% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $12.50, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 22.17% since then. We note from Carnival plc ADR’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 2.37 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 1.99 million.

Carnival plc ADR stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.56. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 2 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 1 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 0 recommended CUK as a Hold, whereas 1 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Carnival plc ADR is expected to report earnings per share of 0 for the current quarter.

Carnival plc ADR (NYSE:CUK) trade information

Instantly CUK has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -0.12% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 17.90 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 10.28%. The company’s shares are currently down -28.65% year-to-date, but still up 7.42% over the last five days. On the other hand, Carnival plc ADR (NYSE:CUK) is -14.48% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 6.24 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 2.98 day(s).

Carnival plc ADR (CUK) estimates and forecasts

The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 4.42%, up from the previous year.

Consensus estimates provided by 17 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 6.2B in revenue for the current quarter. 17 analysts expect Carnival plc ADR to make 7.97B in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 5.78B and 7.9B respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 7.29%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 0.93%.

Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a negative earnings growth rate of -19.76%. Carnival plc ADR earnings are expected to increase by 30.84% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 20.42% per year for the next five years.

CUK Dividends

Carnival plc ADR’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released in May. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 4.56 per year.

Carnival plc ADR (NYSE:CUK)’s Major holders

Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.02% of Carnival plc ADR shares, and 29.66% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 29.67%. Carnival plc ADR stock is held by 149.0 institutions, with ARISTEIA CAPITAL LLC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 0.8629% of the shares, which is about 10.93 million shares worth $188.26 million.

MIRABELLA FINANCIAL SERVICES LLP, with 0.3373% or 4.27 million shares worth $64.33 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.

Goldman Sachs TRT-Goldman Sachs Intl Small Cap Insights Fd. and SEI INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL TRUST-SIT INTERNATIONAL EQUITY FUND were the top two Mutual Funds as of Jan 31, 2025 . The former held 465.36 shares worth $7.52 million, making up 0.32% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, SEI INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL TRUST-SIT INTERNATIONAL EQUITY FUND held roughly 229.19 shares worth around $3.7 million, which represents about 0.16% of the total shares outstanding.