A Few Bright Spots In Carnival plc ADR (NYSE: CUK)

Carnival plc ADR (NYSE:CUK) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.82M but it saw 3114939 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 2.77B USD, the company’s current market price of $19.05 came rising about 0.32 while comparing to the previous closing price of $18.99. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $26.14 and as low as $12.50. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $18.56 while lowest mark touched by it was $19.28.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Carnival plc ADR (CUK) gives us an average price of $19.55, while its current price level is -27.12% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 52.40% 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 $21.92 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $18.99. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 3.99% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 4.79%. 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 42.62 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, CUK’s stock price is moving 9.61% up while it is -19.07% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -15.37% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 29.77%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in April, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 1.69. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $6.19B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $26.03B and seeing the company making $27.05B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $5.74B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Carnival plc ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 145.38M with 0.02% of that held by the insiders while 29.63% 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 13.69 while having a 9.05 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 2.45. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.69 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.11. Its return on asset (ROA) is 3.90% on average.