Carnival plc ADR (NYSE: CUK) Recovers 86.48% From 52-Week Low, Is CUK Still A High-Risk, High-Reward Play?

Carnival plc ADR (NYSE:CUK) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.41M but it saw 1263007 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 3.38B USD, the company’s current market price of $23.31 came rising about 1.44 while comparing to the previous closing price of $22.98. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $24.66 and as low as $12.50. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $22.7 while lowest mark touched by it was $23.325.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Carnival plc ADR (CUK) gives us an average price of $22.57, while its current price level is -5.47% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 86.48% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $22.85 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $17.37. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 3.27% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 3.32%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 57.45 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, CUK’s stock price is moving 3.10% up while it is 2.10% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 3.55% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 53.36%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in February, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 0. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $6.18B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $26.03B and seeing the company making $27.07B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $5.75B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Carnival plc ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 144.81M with 0.00% of that held by the insiders while 27.29% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 5.26% and return on equity (ROE) at 23.75%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 16.76 while having a 11.15 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 2.69. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 3.30 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.13. Its return on asset (ROA) is 3.90% on average.