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  • Ignore the Noise and Cruise Ahead With This Stock

    By Mark Lin - May 15, 2013 | Tickers: CCL, NCLH, RCL

    The most profitable investment opportunities are often found in stocks affected by negative industry news. Norwegian Cruise Lines (NASDAQ: NCLH), the third-largest cruise company globally, belongs in this category. The relatively young age of its fleet and its ability to leverage strategic relationships with casino partners drive Norwegian Cruise Lines’ industry leading ROAs. Norwegian Cruise Lines is an attractive investment candidate with the lowest PEG ratio in its peer group more »

  • Cruise Through 2013 with these 3 Tourism Stocks

    By Ryan Gilbert - May 14, 2013 | Tickers: CCL, NCLH, RCL

    The U.S. economy is showing signs of recovery to pre-recession levels, and personal disposable income has skyrocketed since late 2009. Given this, we may be poised for a boom in the tourism industry soon. That's why I’m analyzing the 3 top publicly traded cruise liners to see if any are investment worthy as the summer doldrums approach.

    <a href="http://ycharts.com/indicators/per_capita_disposable_personal_income/chart"><img src more »

  • I Like Cruises but not Cruise Stocks

    By Masam Abbas - May 2, 2013 | Tickers: CCL, NCLH, RCL

    Most people with deep pockets and not prone to seasickness would like to go on a cruise. However, people with deep pockets haven’t shown much interest in cruise stocks. Perhaps this is the norm in an uncertain economic environment where people tend to spend only on their needs.

    In addition to lower luxury spending in the US, the cruise vacation industry faces several challenges. Firstly, cruise companies have had more »

  • An Opportune Time to Buy the World's Biggest Cruise Operator

    By Ted Cooper - April 23, 2013 | Tickers: CCL, NCLH, RCL

    Carnival Cruise Lines (NYSE: CCL) has endured a flurry of bad publicity amid the horrific Costa Concordia disaster as well as multiple breakdowns in the Gulf of Mexico that left passengers stranded without modern plumbing.

    Although the events relate to only a small percentage of Carnival's massive fleet of ships, the public relations disaster weighed heavily on first quarter bookings -- the biggest booking quarter of the year. As a more »

  • Is Carnival Still a Buy?

    By Shas Dey - April 19, 2013 | Tickers: CCL, NCLH, RCL

    Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL) is currently in the news for the wrong reasons. Costa Cruises, one of the units of Carnival,  which owned and operated the cruise liner Costa Concordia, has accepted a $1.31 million settlement in relation to the deadly accident of its ship off the coast of Italy last year. Another cruise liner, Carnival Triumph, caught fire and lost control in February 2013 leaving many people stranded more »

  • Can Discount Prices Save Carnival Cruise Lines?

    By Stephanie Faris - April 18, 2013 | Tickers: CCL, NCLH, RCL

    Just a few years ago, the buying public would have been wowed by the price. A week on one of the world's most popular cruise ships for only $38 a night! Better yet, the cruise takes passengers to the Caribbean.

    Carnival (NYSE: CCL) posted the offer on its website recently--four days in the Caribbean for only $149 per person--which breaks down to $37.25 a night. For a cruise more »

  • Is Carnival Still a Buy?

    By Shas Dey - April 16, 2013 | Tickers: CCL, NCLH, RCL

    Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL) is currently in the news for the wrong reasons. Costa Cruises, one of the units of Carnival,  which owned and operated the cruise liner Costa Concordia, has accepted a $1.31 million settlement in relation to the deadly accident of its ship off the coast of Italy last year. Another cruise liner, Carnival Triumph caught fire and lost control in February 2013 leaving many people stranded more »

  • Can Discount Prices Save Carnival Cruise Lines?

    By Stephanie Faris - April 14, 2013 | Tickers: CCL, NCLH, RCL

    Just a few years ago, the buying public would have been wowed by the price. A week on one of the world's most popular cruise ships for only $38 a night. Better yet, the cruise takes passengers to the Caribbean.

    Carnival Cruise Lines (NYSE: CCL) posted the offer on its website recently--four days in the Caribbean for only $149 per person--which breaks down to $37.25 a night. For more »

  • Why This Stock Isn't Sinking

    By Marshall Hargrave - April 11, 2013 | Tickers: CCL, NCLH, RCL

    Carnival (NYSE: CCL), with its string of mishaps, has managed to under-perform the S&P 500's consumer discretionary portion of the index by over 70 percentage points over the last three years.  

    Meanwhile, chief competitor Royal Caribbean (NYSE: RCL) is up over 20% during the same time period. But is this really fair? Carnival is the world's largest cruise company operating across North America, Europe, Australia  and Asia more »

  • Choppy Waters for the Cruising Guys

    By Shas Dey - April 10, 2013 | Tickers: CCL, NCLH, RCL

    According to Cruise MarketWatch, the total revenue of the worldwide cruise industry is estimated to increase to $36.2 billion in 2013, up 4.5% from 2012. The projected number of passengers to be carried this year is 20.9 million, which represents a 3.3% increase over 2012. 

    Carnival (NYSE: CCL) has the largest market share at 48%, with its Carnival Cruise segment alone accounting for 21.2% of more »

  • Why This Stock Isn't Sinking

    By Marshall Hargrave - April 9, 2013 | Tickers: CCL, NCLH, RCL

    Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL), with its string of mishaps, has managed to under-perform the S&P 500's consumer discretionary portion of the index by over 70 percentage points over the last three years.  

    Meanwhile, chief competitor Royal Caribbean (NYSE: RCL) is up over 20% during the same time period. But is this really fair? Carnival is the world's largest cruise company operating across North America, Europe, Australia  and more »

  • Choppy Waters For The Cruising Guys

    By Shas Dey - April 3, 2013 | Tickers: CCL, NCLH, RCL

    According to Cruise MarketWatch, the total worldwide cruise industry is estimated to increase to $36.2 billion in 2013, increasing 4.5% from 2012 with 20.9 million annualized passengers carried, a 3.3% increase over 2012.  Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL) has the largest market share of 48% with its Carnival cruise alone accounting for 21.2% of the market share. This is in comparison with 23.3% of Royal more »

  • The Cruise Industry's Mishaps Create Opportunity

    By Matthew Frankel - March 26, 2013 | Tickers: CCL, NCLH, RCL

    With all of the drama involving cruise ships lately, shares of the two major cruise lines, Carnival (NYSE: CCL) and Royal Caribbean (NYSE: RCL) have both fallen significantly from the levels of a few months ago. In the weeks following the infamous Carnival Triumph “cruise from hell,” several other incidents occurred in which Carnival experienced technical problems with their ships. Despite how overblown these issues became in the media (the more »

  • Should We Cruise on Carnival?

    By Anh HOANG - March 20, 2013 | Tickers: CCL, NCLH, RCL

    Carnival (NYSE: CCL) dropped nearly 2% on March 15 due to its disappointing 2013 outlook. The company expects to earn around $1.80 to $2.10 per share for the year, while analysts expected EPS to be around $2.35. Since the beginning of February, the stock has declined by around 12%, from around $39 per share to nearly $35 per share. Should we avoid Carnival due to its poor more »

  • The Rules Girl: Five Rules of Investing

    By Kelly Whiting - March 11, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, AAMRQ.PK, BBRY, CCL, CMG, GILD, LEN, NFLX, PNRA, SWHC

    When I was in my mid 20’s there was a popular dating book called The Rules. My bestie was a BIG fan. After another one of our relationships went sour, she loved to reference that book and muse over which rule had been violated. Luckily we outgrew that! But, I like to think that it gave me the foundation for my own personal “Rules” of Investing.

    Rule #1 Stick more »

  • Does Carnival's Current Ratio Present a Problem?

    By Rupert Hargreaves - March 5, 2013 | Tickers: CCL, NCLH, RCL

    Carnival (NYSE: CCL) is the biggest cruising company in the world. Carnival owns six separate cruise lines and travels to thousands of destinations around the world.

    However, over the past five years Carnival has been in trouble. Due to falling consumer income, Carnival's earnings have come under pressure, and a series of very high profile disasters have given the company a lot of negative press.

    With falling revenues and more »

  • Why Cruise Lines Face Spectacular Risks

    By Reuben Brewer - March 1, 2013 | Tickers: CCL, RCL, DIS

    When looking at risks, humans tend to misinterpret the importance of many events. For example, flying is actually very safe. Safer than driving, in fact. However, because flying accidents are spectacular in nature, people tend to assign them greater weight then they deserve. Cruise lines face the same challenge, but it could be a way to get in on a decent businesses on the cheap.

  • Cruising For a Bruising

    By Diane Alter - February 25, 2013 | Tickers: CCL, NCLH, RCL

    Did you hear? Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) is reversing its commercial. You know the one where the couple sits on the deck of a Carnival Cruise ship appearing rested and relaxed as they look back on an earlier wilderness trip that left them stranded in their car while a hungry bear claws at the windows. The new version’s subliminal message is that people would really rather be stuck with more »

  • Billionaire Michael Hintze’s Top Picks

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - February 21, 2013 | Tickers: BHP, CCL, LBTYA, NWSA, RYAAY

    Chinese-born Michael Hintze is an Australian/British businessman, famously perched on Forbes’s billionaire list as the 880th richest person in the world. He made his fortune primarily through his hedge fund company CQS; the directional fund’s tremendous gains in 2012 gave it the rank of the third top-performing large hedge fund in the world for the year. CQS released their 13F filing a few days ago, highlighting more »

  • Carnival Will Be Fine...Don't Believe Me?

    By Nate Wooley - February 18, 2013 | Tickers: CCL, NCLH, RCL, DIS

    You know, I'm going to bet against the market on this one. I'm going to say that Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL) is going to be fine. I know that's counter to what everyone on the cable networks is saying, but they're wrong. It's not like this would be the first time that a yammering head has said dumb things just to sound smart, is it more »

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