Carnival Corp
About: Carnival is the largest global cruise company, with more than 90 ships in service at the end of fiscal 2024. Its portfolio of brands includes Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America, Princess Cruises, and Seabourn in North America; P&O Cruises and Cunard Line in the United Kingdom; Aida in Germany; Costa Cruises in Southern Europe. It's currently folding its P&O Australia brand into Carnival. The firm also owns Holland America Princess Alaska Tours in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon. Carnival's brands attracted 14 million guests in 2024.
Employees: 100,000
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
111% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 184 | Existing positions closed: 87
43% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $12.9B [Q3] → $18.5B (+$5.56B) [Q4]
23% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 309 | Existing positions reduced: 251
9% more funds holding
Funds holding: 846 [Q3] → 926 (+80) [Q4]
3.49% more ownership
Funds ownership: 62.66% [Q3] → 66.15% (+3.49%) [Q4]
14% less funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 14 [Q3] → 12 (-2) [Q4]
48% less call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $1.09B | Put options by funds: $2.11B
Research analyst outlook
7 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
7 analyst ratings
Barclays Brandt Montour 40% 1-year accuracy 35 / 87 met price target | 42%upside $26 | Overweight Maintained | 22 Apr 2025 |
Morgan Stanley Jamie Rollo 33% 1-year accuracy 1 / 3 met price target | 15%upside $21 | Equal-Weight Upgraded | 10 Apr 2025 |
Tigress Financial Ivan Feinseth 44% 1-year accuracy 31 / 70 met price target | 74%upside $32 | Strong Buy Maintained | 26 Mar 2025 |
Citigroup James Hardiman 24% 1-year accuracy 7 / 29 met price target | 64%upside $30 | Buy Maintained | 24 Mar 2025 |
Mizuho Ben Chaiken 28% 1-year accuracy 15 / 54 met price target | 80%upside $33 | Outperform Maintained | 24 Mar 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 28 articles about CCL published over the past 30 days









