Carnival Corp (NYSE:CCL)’s traded shares stood at 22.79 million during the last session, with the company’s beta value hitting 2.58. At the close of trading, the stock’s price was $23.57, to imply a decrease of -1.26% or -$0.3 in intraday trading. The CCL share’s 52-week high remains $28.72, putting it -21.85% down since that peak but still an impressive 41.54% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $13.78. The company has a valuation of $30.64B, with an average of 20.13 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 24.93 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Carnival Corp (CCL), translating to a mean rating of 1.52. Of 25 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 1 analyst(s) give CCL a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 4 advise Hold as 20 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 0.24.
Carnival Corp (NYSE:CCL) trade information
After registering a -1.26% downside in the last session, Carnival Corp (CCL) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -1.87%, and 3.65% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -5.42%. Short interest in Carnival Corp (NYSE:CCL) saw shorts transact 64.5 million shares and set a 2.83 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $22 and $32 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, CCL has been trading -35.77% off suggested target high and 6.66% from its likely low.
Carnival Corp (CCL) estimates and forecasts
The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 4.29% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 18 analysts is 6.2B. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 18 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 7.97B.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 5.78B and 7.9B respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 7.32% before jumping 0.95% in the following quarter.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings shrunk an estimated -19.76% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a 32.32% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 20.65% annually.
CCL Dividends
Carnival Corp has its next earnings report out on 2025-Mar-20. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 4.21%.
Carnival Corp (NYSE:CCL)’s Major holders
Carnival Corp insiders hold 7.59% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 67.70% of the shares at 73.26% float percentage. In total, 67.70% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VANGUARD GROUP INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 113.84 million shares (or 8.985% of shares), all amounting to roughly $2.13 billion.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 68.77 million shares, or about 5.4275% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $1.29 billion.
We also have VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Carnival Corp (CCL) shares. Going by data provided on Mar 31, 2025 , VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund holds roughly 31.28 shares. This is just over 2.68% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $737.32 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 29.11, or 2.50% of the shares, all valued at about 686.21 million.
