Carnival plc ADR (NYSE: CUK): Think Like A Lender, Not An Investor

Carnival plc ADR (NYSE:CUK) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.97M but it saw 2206730 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 2.30B USD, the company’s current market price of $15.82 came falling about -10.62 while comparing to the previous closing price of $17.70. 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 $15.41 while lowest mark touched by it was $16.68.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Carnival plc ADR (CUK) gives us an average price of $17.61, while its current price level is -39.48% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 26.56% 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 $20.22 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $19.19. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 12.16% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 6.21%. 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 39.58 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, CUK’s stock price is moving 1.22% up while it is -10.87% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -29.72% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 13.41%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in May, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 1.8. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $7.97B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $26.13B and seeing the company making $27.1B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $6.2B 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 29.66% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 5.72% and return on equity (ROE) at 25.87%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 10.53 while having a 7.34 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 2.57. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.26 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.09. Its return on asset (ROA) is 4.18% on average.