Analyzing Stock On Your Own: Carnival plc ADR (NYSE: CUK)

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Carnival plc ADR (NYSE:CUK) does about 2.01M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1398777 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 2.84B USD. Its current market price is $19.60, marking an increase of 0.93% compared to the previous close of $19.42. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $19.92 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $9.77.

Carnival plc ADR (CUK) has a 20-day trading average at $17.81 and the current price is -1.62% off the 52-week high compared with 100.61% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $16.20 and its 200-day simple moving average is $15.01. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.30%, which increases to 3.58% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 72.12 to suggest the stock is overbought.

The consensus objective for the share price is $23.09, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 15.11% over the period.

The current price level is 10.04%, 21.00%, and 30.61% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the CUK price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. Carnival plc ADR (CUK) stock is down -0.46% over the week and 13.56% over the past month. Its price is 16.25% year-to-date and 96.79% over the past year.

The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0 and 1.29 for whole year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 15.11 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 144.81M with insiders holding 0.00% of the shares and institutional holders owning 26.78% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 4.29% and return on equity of 20.12%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 17.45 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 11.45. The beta has a value of 2.76. Price to book ratio is 2.89 and price to sales ratio is 0.12.