CCL

Carnival Corporation Ltd. ·NYSE·Consumer Discretionary
28.43 live · 2026-08-13 15:59
39.6%
Brown Bear Score
46.6%
Business Conviction Score
55.9%
Position Health Score
0.0%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -7.2% · range 23.89–33.99

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 5.0%
OCF / assets 12.0%
FCF / revenue 23.4%
Gross margin 55.7%
ROIC 10.7%
Forward P/E 10.8

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +22.9pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-09-28 before the open · consensus EPS 1.37

Q3 23 revenue: 6.85bnQ3 23 net income: 1.07bnQ3 23 EPS: 0.77Q4 23 revenue: 5.40bnQ4 23 net income: -48.00mQ4 23 EPS: -0.04Q4 23Q1 24 revenue: 5.41bnQ1 24 net income: -214.00mQ1 24 EPS: -0.17Q2 24 revenue: 5.78bnQ2 24 net income: 92.00mQ2 24 EPS: 0.07Q2 24Q3 24 revenue: 7.90bnQ3 24 net income: 1.74bnQ3 24 EPS: 1.24Q4 24 revenue: 5.94bnQ4 24 net income: 303.00mQ4 24 EPS: 0.22Q4 24Q1 25 revenue: 5.81bnQ1 25 net income: -78.00mQ1 25 EPS: -0.06Q2 25 revenue: 6.33bnQ2 25 net income: 565.00mQ2 25 EPS: 0.40Q2 25Q3 25 revenue: 8.15bnQ3 25 net income: 1.85bnQ3 25 EPS: 1.32Q4 25 revenue: 6.33bnQ4 25 net income: 421.00mQ4 25 EPS: 0.30Q4 25Q1 26 revenue: 6.17bnQ1 26 net income: 258.00mQ1 26 EPS: 0.19Q2 26 revenue: 6.66bnQ2 26 net income: 537.00mQ2 26 EPS: 0.39Q2 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (-0.17–1.32, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q2 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The baseline is zero — bars below it are losses. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) Filed
2026-05-31 6.66bn +5.3% 537.00m 0.39 2026-06-26
2026-02-28 6.17bn +6.1% 258.00m 0.19 2026-03-27
2025-11-30 (derived) 6.33bn +6.6% 421.00m 0.30 2026-01-27
2025-08-31 8.15bn +3.3% 1.85bn 1.32 2025-09-29

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±5.4%
On an ordinary two days ±2.4% — filings move it 2.2× as much
Direction 5 up, 7 down over 12 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +688.5% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-09-30: price -25.2%Q1 23 revenue +173.1% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-03-29: price +8.9%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue +104.5% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-06-28: price +8.0%Q3 23 revenue +59.2% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-09-29: price -5.5%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue +22.0% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-03-27: price -4.1%Q2 24 revenue +17.7% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-06-27: price +1.9%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +15.2% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-09-30: price -2.8%Q1 25 revenue +7.5% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-03-25: price -2.4%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +9.5% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-06-26: price +7.0%Q3 25 revenue +3.3% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-09-29: price -5.6%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +6.1% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-03-27: price -5.2%Q2 26 revenue +5.3% year on yearQ2 26 filed 2026-06-26: price +2.6%Q2 26

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-05-31 2026-06-26 +5.3% +2.6% -3.3%
2026-02-28 2026-03-27 +6.1% -5.2% -2.8%
2025-08-31 2025-09-29 +3.3% -5.6% -6.8%
2025-05-31 2025-06-26 +9.5% +7.0% +5.5%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Flat — little net change
Diluted shares 1,388.0M as at 2026-05-31
Change over 1 year -0.9%
Change over 3 years +9.9%
Public float $25.10bn as at 2025-05-31 (10-K)

History before 2021-02-28 is not shown. The share count jumps at that date by a ratio no ordinary issuance produces — a split whose factor is not in Brown Bear's split store — so earlier figures are on a different basis and cannot be compared with today's.

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyFair Value Anchor
Reference band 27.33 — 28.56
Protective stop 25.88 (Atr, 7.4% risk)
Support 27.94 (2 touches, 1.7% away)
Resistance 28.98 (2.0% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 1.7% above 27.94, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 2.0% below 28.98, where sellers have turned up before. That floor has held 2 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 7.4% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice ABOVE the cloud | periods 9/25/50 (97% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BEAR
Cloud eventFresh up breakout 0d ago
Cloud thickness46% percentile
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice INSIDE the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading above its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 27.84 to 28.35. Being above it means the medium-term picture is pointing upwards, and that band is the first place the stock has recent support if it slips back. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.

Trailing returns

21 days +6.9%
63 days +13.5%
126 days -14.1%
252 days -4.1%
Below 252d high16.4%

Trend context

PositionAt trend
ExtensionNormal
Trend slopeRising
Direction of travelHolding its deviation

Takeaway Price is near a rising Kalman fair trend, consistent with a healthy trend setup.

Volatility

State Expanded out of a squeeze
Current band width18.1% of price
Recent tightest11.5% (9 sessions ago, narrower than 99.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.57×
Band 25.13 — 30.11

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 18% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 99% of the time. It has started moving again since, swinging about 1.6 times as widely as during that quiet spell. A stock that has been quiet tends to make its next move look big by comparison, simply because the recent bar was low.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 25.51–30.032026-06-222026-08-13
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Above its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway Slightly more shares change hands on rising days than on falling ones, but the gap is too small to read anything into.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

CCL: no binary-event flag. Near IV 37%, far IV 44% (ratio 0.86), implied move 4.4%.

Implied volatility 37% near (8d) · 44% far (64d)
Term structure 0.86× near/far
Historical volatility 39%
Implied vs historical 0.96×
Implied move ±4.4% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.54×
Skew Flat (1.05×)
Call wall 32.00 (+12.6% away)
Put wall 27.00 (-5.0% away)
Gamma pin 32.00

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs less for the next few weeks than for the next few months, which is the normal state of affairs and suggests no particular date is worrying anyone. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 4.4% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-13. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Mixed Rotation Phase

Rotation health 59.0/100; Mixed Rotation.

Rotation health 59.0
Rotation strength 69.5
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Weakening 103.4 83.1
Stock vs SPY Weakening 106.2 94.3
Sector vs SPY Leading 110.3 120.1

Direction of travel: South-West / deteriorating rotation

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Headlines are supplied by third-party feeds and are not written, ranked or interpreted by Brown Bear. They feed no score on this page.

Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 7/9 (+20.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+3.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 55.7% (+13.1)
  • ROIC quality: 10.7% (+4.9)
  • FCF margin quality: 23.4% (+15.6)
  • Gross margin improving by 18.2 pts (+5.0)
  • FCF margin improving by -0.3 pts (+-3.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.067) (+5.0)
  • Relative Strength 5.0% vs sector: OUTPERFORMING (+10.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram state (0.02) (+3.0)
  • Track 1: relative strength trend improving (+5.0)
  • Track 1: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.19 (+9.0)
  • Track 1: bullish DI spread 13.2 (+3.0)
  • Track 1: ADX 42.0 and flat (+8.0)
  • Track 1: EMA20 reclaim distance 1.7% (+6.6)
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope improving 0.4% (+0.9)
  • Track 1: positive MACD regime (+3.0)
  • Track 1: VPT strength 0.00 (+0.1)
  • Track 1: price above EMA50 by 2.7% (+1.7)
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope improving 1.4% (+2.9)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 2.7% (+2.8)
  • Track 1: EMA200 support proximity 3.2% (+4.8)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.66 (+2.7)

Negative signals

  • Track 1: weak volume confirmation (0.66x average)
  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.27)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram deteriorating (-0.31)
  • Track 1: RSI deterioration/extension 64.1, 5-day change -1.6
  • Below-average Altman Z-score (1.50)

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.