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Carnival Corporation (CCL) is a leisure travel company headquartered in Miami, Florida. It operates an international cruise line with 2- to 31-day voyages across destinations that include Mexico, Alaska, The Bahamas, Europe and Hawaii. Founded in 1972 by Ted Arison, Carnival is one of the world's largest cruise operators. Its fleet consists of over 100 ships, with the company planning to take delivery of 22 new vessels between 2018 and 2025. Carnival Corporation went public in 1987 and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
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| 52-week range | $21.34 - $33.32 |
|---|---|
| 50-day moving average | $25.28 |
| 200-day moving average | $27.11 |
| Wall St. target price | $33.49 |
| PE ratio | 13.5727 |
| Dividend yield | $0.45 (1.52%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $2.27 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $29.23 from 2026-11-12
| 1 week (2026-11-06) | -1.18% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2026-10-14) | 12.55% |
| 3 months (2026-08-14) | 3.95% |
| 6 months (2026-05-14) | 15.99% |
| 1 year (2025-11-14) | 12.34% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2024-11-14) | 20.24% |
| 3 years (2023-11-14) | 110.44% |
| 5 years (2021-11-12) | 33.50% |
Valuing Carnival Corporation stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Carnival Corporation's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Carnival Corporation's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 14x. In other words, Carnival Corporation shares trade at around 14x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Carnival Corporation's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.0165. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Carnival Corporation's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Carnival Corporation's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $7.3 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Carnival Corporation's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $27.6 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 26.43% |
| Gross profit TTM | $15.3 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 5.4% |
| Return on equity TTM | 24% |
| Profit margin | 11.37% |
| Book value | $10.49 |
| Market Capitalization | $41.4 billion |
| EBITDA | $7.3 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 25.21% of net profits
Recently Carnival Corporation has paid out, on average, around 25.21% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 1.95% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Carnival Corporation shareholders could enjoy a 1.95% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Carnival Corporation's case, that would currently equate to about $0.45 per share.
While Carnival Corporation's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Carnival Corporation may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Carnival Corporation's most recent dividend payout was on 26 November 2026. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 5 November 2026 (the "ex-dividend date").
Carnival Corporation's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 14 June 1998 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Carnival Corporation shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Carnival Corporation shares which in turn could have impacted Carnival Corporation's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Carnival Corporation's shares have ranged in value from as little as $21.3412 up to $33.3221. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Carnival Corporation's is 2.456. This would suggest that Carnival Corporation's shares are significantly more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent a higher risk.
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