Royal Caribbean Cruises is a travel services business based in the US. Royal Caribbean Cruises shares (RCL) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $233.26 – an increase of 1.44% over the previous week. Royal Caribbean Cruises employs 105,950 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $16.8 billion.
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| Latest market close | $233.26 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $129.03 - $276.12 |
| 50-day moving average | $211.35 |
| 200-day moving average | $209.01 |
| Wall St. target price | $265.43 |
| PE ratio | 18.9797 |
| Dividend yield | $1.7 (1.29%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $12.29 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $233.26 from 2025-05-09
| 1 week (2025-05-02) | 1.44% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-11) | 21.48% |
| 3 months (2025-02-12) | -8.99% |
| 6 months (2024-11-12) | -1.75% |
| 1 year (2024-05-10) | 65.39% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-11) | 208.01% |
| 3 years (2022-05-11) | 292.33% |
| 5 years (2020-05-11) | 517.72% |
Valuing Royal Caribbean Cruises stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Royal Caribbean Cruises's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Royal Caribbean Cruises's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 19x. In other words, Royal Caribbean Cruises shares trade at around 19x 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.
Royal Caribbean Cruises's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.8823. 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 Royal Caribbean Cruises's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Royal Caribbean Cruises's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $5.9 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Royal Caribbean Cruises's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $16.8 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 23.73% |
| Gross profit TTM | $8.3 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 7.43% |
| Return on equity TTM | 48.52% |
| Profit margin | 19.38% |
| Book value | $29.31 |
| Market Capitalization | $63.3 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Royal Caribbean Cruises.
When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.
Total ESG risk: 21.81
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Royal Caribbean Cruises's overall score of 21.81 (as at 12/31/2018) is pretty good – landing it in it in the 26th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Royal Caribbean Cruises is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Environmental score: 7/100
Social score: 8.31/100
Governance score: 2/100
Controversy score: 3/5
ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. Royal Caribbean Cruises scored a 3 out of 5 for controversy – a middle-of-the-table result reflecting that Royal Caribbean Cruises hasn't always managed to keep its nose clean.
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.
| Total ESG score | 21.81 |
|---|---|
| Total ESG percentile | 26.14 |
| Environmental score | 7 |
| Social score | 8.31 |
| Governance score | 2 |
| Level of controversy | 3 |
Dividend payout ratio: 19.22% of net profits
Recently Royal Caribbean Cruises has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Royal Caribbean Cruises shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Royal Caribbean Cruises's case, that would currently equate to about $1.7 per share.
While Royal Caribbean Cruises's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Royal Caribbean Cruises is investing more in its future growth.
Royal Caribbean Cruises's most recent dividend payout was on 3 April 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 3 June 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Royal Caribbean Cruises's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 2 August 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 Royal Caribbean Cruises shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Royal Caribbean Cruises shares which in turn could have impacted Royal Caribbean Cruises's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Royal Caribbean Cruises's shares have ranged in value from as little as $129.026 up to $276.1158. 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 Royal Caribbean Cruises's is 2.125. This would suggest that Royal Caribbean Cruises's shares are significantly more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent a higher risk.
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. operates as a cruise company worldwide. The company operates cruises under the Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea Cruises brands, which comprise a range of itineraries. As of February 12, 2025, it operated 67 ships. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida. .
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