Home Depot will benefit from a housing recovery. Carnival will reduce its interest expense.
Carnival has more than doubled since the start of last year, but it's still trading for less than 12 times forward earnings. The leading cruise line reports fresh financials in less than two weeks, and momentum is on its side.
Carnival is still dealing with exceptional demand, and interest rate cuts could send it even higher. It's managing its debt effectively, but a change in demand could pose a risk to its plans.
Cruises have been taking share from other forms of travel, and that will benefit Carnival investors. Roku's double-digit growth in streaming households is pointing to substantial upside for the stock.
The latest trading day saw Carnival (CCL) settling at $16.14, representing a +0.69% change from its previous close.
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The cruise industry was arguably the worst-hit during the pandemic.
Carnival will report results for its seasonally strongest period later this month. The cruise line operator has trounced bottom-line targets since returning to normal operations two years ago.
Carnival and Norweigan are generating record revenue. Each has debt issues weighing heavily on their business.
Carnival is benefiting from strong demand for cruise travel. Its business benefits from sizable barriers to entry.
Since 2019, Carnival Corporation debt ballooned by 3x and interest expense by 10x, due to a double whammy hit from Covid followed by rate hikes. Deleveraging plans shared by CCL management is poised to drive recovery in EPS to $2.2 by 2026, via strategic paydown of debt, leading to significant savings in interest payments. The deleveraging playbook can be comfortably executed with current cash flows at record highs over pre-Covid levels, and from lowered CAPEX due to lesser new ship deliveries.
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