Royal Caribbean (RCL) Q2 Earnings Report Preview: What To Look For
Cruise vacation company Royal Caribbean (NYSE:RCL) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday before market hours. Here’s what investors should know.
Royal Caribbean met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $4.45 billion, up 11.3% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates. It reported 14.87 million passenger cruise days, up 8% year on year.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Royal Caribbean’s revenue to grow 6% year on year, slowing from the 10.4% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business will stay the course heading into earnings.
Looking at Royal Caribbean’s peers in the consumer discretionary - travel and vacation providers segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Delta delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 18.7%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.9%, and Travel + Leisure reported revenues up 4.4%, topping estimates by 1.6%. Delta traded down 3.2% following the results while Travel + Leisure’s stock price was unchanged.
Read our full analysis of Delta’s results here and Travel + Leisure’s results here.
In the last twelve months or so, the market has shifted its attention from one area of macro importance to the next (AI disintermediation and AI capex spending to geopolitical conflict, rates, and whether the economy is on solid footing or not). While some of the consumer discretionary - travel and vacation providers stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 4.1% on average over the last month. Royal Caribbean is down 8.7% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $337.04 (compared to the current share price of $293).
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