
Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL): Stock With Unusual Social Activity
Trade-Ideas LLC identified
(
) as an unusual social activity candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Royal Caribbean Cruises as such a stock due to the following factors:
- RCL has more that 20x the normal benchmarked social activity for this time of the day compared to its average of 3.84 mentions/day.
- RCL has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $188.4 million.
Identifying stocks with 'Unusual Social Activity' tends to be a valuable process for traders looking to capitalize on the 'talk of the town' stocks that are basking in far more attention from the StockTwits financial community than normal. Good press? Bad press? It ultimately doesn't matter if it's good or bad if you know how to trade around the sentiment. Certain hedge funds use such data for their proprietary algorithms and it is not uncommon to see shared social sentiment play itself out in a stock's price trend.
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More details on RCL:
Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. operates as a cruise company. The company operates cruisers under the Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, Pullmantur, Azamara Club Cruises, CDF Croisieres de France, and TUI Cruises brand names. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 1.6%. RCL has a PE ratio of 25. Currently there are 13 analysts that rate Royal Caribbean Cruises a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 1 rates it a hold.
The average volume for Royal Caribbean Cruises has been 2.2 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Royal Caribbean Cruises has a market cap of $20.5 billion and is part of the services sector and leisure industry. The stock has a beta of 0.63 and a short float of 5.8% with 5.21 days to cover. Shares are up 14.9% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday.
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Analysis:
rates Royal Caribbean Cruises as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income and reasonable valuation levels. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.
Highlights from the ratings report include:
- RCL's revenue growth has slightly outpaced the industry average of 3.3%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 4.0%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
- Powered by its strong earnings growth of 35.48% and other important driving factors, this stock has surged by 65.56% over the past year, outperforming the rise in the S&P 500 Index during the same period. Regarding the stock's future course, although almost any stock can fall in a broad market decline, RCL should continue to move higher despite the fact that it has already enjoyed a very nice gain in the past year.
- ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD has improved earnings per share by 35.5% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. We feel that this trend should continue. During the past fiscal year, ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD increased its bottom line by earning $3.42 versus $2.14 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($4.72 versus $3.42).
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the S&P 500 and the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure industry. The net income increased by 34.4% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from $137.67 million to $184.97 million.
- You can view the full Royal Caribbean Cruises Ratings Report.
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