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Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCL)

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Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCL) reported revenue of $4.8 billion for Q2 FY2026, the quarter ended 30 June 2026, up 6.5% on the same quarter a year earlier. Net income was $1.1 billion, down 6.8% on the year, and diluted earnings per share $4.20. The figures are the company's own, from the 10-Q it filed with the SEC on 28 July 2026.

Revenue$4.8 billionup 6.5%
Net income$1.1 billiondown 6.8%
Diluted EPS$4.20
QuarterQ2 FY2026ended 30 June 2026

Ratios

From the filings

ROE43.0%
ROCE15.4%
Operating margin27.3%
Net margin23.5%
FCF margin-2.2%
Interest cover4.96
Debt to equity2.23
Cash conversion1.54
Share count, 1 year-1.5%
Sales CAGR, 3 years26.6%
Profit CAGR, 3 yearsn/a
EPS, TTM$16.18

At the close of 21 September 2026

Price$250.25
Market cap$66.9 billion
Stock P/E15.47
Price to book6.54
EV / EBITDA12.85
Dividend yield2.0%
Market cap / sales3.58
52-week high$348.03
52-week low$245.81
Price, 1 year-23.8%
Price CAGR, 3 years40.0%
Price CAGR, 5 years24.0%

Every figure is arithmetic on the filed lines (hover a name for the formula); the priced ones use the latest daily close, CBOE delayed quotes, daily history, by CBOE, for splits. Debt to equity here stands on the total debt Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. states in its own filing, with lease liabilities counted separately and never inside it. Nothing here is a valuation or a view.

Price, 17 September 2021 to 21 September 2026

Daily closes from CBOE delayed quotes, daily history, by CBOE, for splits; the last is 21 September 2026. P/E is the close over the trailing four quarters' EPS as filed at each filing date, on the current share count; the dashed line is the median over the range shown. Sales and margin are quarterly revenue and the operating margin from the tables above. EV/EBITDA, price to book and market cap to sales use the latest filed balance sheet and share count at each date. Drawn in your browser; the range and overlay you pick are remembered here only.

The public record on RCL

Filings21 in twelve months: 14 current reports (8-K), about 6 material agreement; 4 results of operations; 3 new financial obligation; 3 regulation fd disclosure; 2 officer or director change
Planned insider sales10 Form 144 notices in twelve months, $720.7 million; latest 3 August 2026
Options tapeput/call 2.04 by open interest on 23 September 2026; the straddle prices a 4.4% move to 25 September 2026
Holders9 of the followed funds hold it; largest Capital Research Global Investors; 11 Schedule 13D or 13G filings in twelve months
Insider trading123 sales and 0 purchases on Form 4 in twelve months
Congress0 House trades disclosed in six months
Short interest11.0 million shares short, 7.02 days to cover at 31 August 2026
Documentsthe 10-K, the 10-Qs, the proxy and 4 earnings press releases, each linked

Quarterly results, the last 12 quarters

Q3 FY2023Q4 FY2023 *Q1 FY2024Q2 FY2024Q3 FY2024Q4 FY2024 *Q1 FY2025Q2 FY2025Q3 FY2025Q4 FY2025 *Q1 FY2026Q2 FY2026
Revenue4,1603,3313,7284,1104,8863,7603,9994,5385,1394,2594,4524,832
Cost of revenue2,1371,8902,0562,1522,3912,0532,0792,2832,4792,2422,2472,547
Gross profit2,0241,4411,6721,9582,4951,7071,9202,2552,6602,0172,2052,285
Gross margin49%43%45%48%51%45%48%50%52%47%50%47%
SG&A393503535466451673562508522631582513
Operating income1,2655707501,0991,6346239451,3291,7029341,1621,307
Operating margin30%17%20%27%33%17%24%29%33%22%26%27%
Interest expense341346424298603265249228248267278236
Pre-tax incomen/an/an/an/an/an/a7511,232n/an/a9761,150
Tax raten/an/an/an/an/an/a2%1%n/an/a3%1%
Net income1,0092773608541,1115527301,2101,5757539411,128
Net margin24%8%10%21%23%15%18%27%31%18%21%23%
Diluted EPS$3.65$1.15$1.35$3.11$4.21$2.27$2.70$4.41$5.74$2.76$3.48$4.20
Operating cash flow6601,1161,3281,5738971,4671,6271,7461,4691,6231,8341,860
Capital expenditure2802,5682422,1403345524288362,4581,5075002,737
Free cash flow379-1,4521,086-5675639151,199910-9891161,334-877
Buybacksn/an/a0.00.00.00.02410.0414504836199
Dividends paidn/an/a0.00.00.0107148200204272270404
Shares outstanding256m257m257m257m269m269m272m272m273m271m268m267m
Filing10-Q10-K10-Q10-Q10-Q10-K10-Q10-Q10-Q10-K10-Q10-Q

* The fourth quarter is the full year less the first three quarters, because the company files the year and not the quarter on its own. Money is in $ million as the company files it, or in $ billion by the switch above the tables; per share figures and the share count are as they are. Free cash flow is operating cash flow less capital expenditure; the effective tax rate is income tax over pre-tax income; margins are the line over revenue. Gross profit is revenue less cost of revenue, and operating income is revenue less the company's own total costs, where the statement does not print those lines. Cash flow lines filed year to date are the difference between two filings. Shares outstanding are at the period end where the balance sheet tags them, otherwise the count on the filing's cover page. A derived fourth-quarter EPS is left blank when a split in the year makes the arithmetic meaningless.

Profit and loss, 12 fiscal years and the trailing twelve months

FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021 FY2022 FY2023FY2024FY2025TTM
Revenue8,0748,2998,4968,7789,49410,9512,2091,5328,84113,90016,48417,93518,682
Cost of revenue5,3065,0995,0164,8975,2626,0632,7652,7396,6147,7758,6529,0839,515
Gross profit2,7683,2003,4813,8814,2324,888-556-1,1252,2266,1257,8328,8529,167
Gross margin34.3%38.6%41.0%44.2%44.6%44.6%-25.2%-73.5%25.2%44.1%47.5%49.4%49.1%
Selling, general and administrative1,0491,0871,1091,1861,3031,5591,2001,3701,5831,7922,1252,2232,248
Operating income9428751,4771,7441,8952,083-4,602-3,870-7662,8784,1064,9105,105
Operating margin11.7%10.5%17.4%19.9%20.0%19.0%-208.3%-252.6%-8.7%20.7%24.9%27.4%27.3%
Interest expense2582783073003344098441,2921,3641,4021,5909921,029
Pre-tax incomen/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a1,7112,9414,373n/a
Income taxn/an/an/an/an/an/an/a-45.04.06.046.082.0n/a
Effective tax raten/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a0.4%1.6%1.9%n/a
Net income7646661,2831,6251,8111,879-5,797-5,260-2,1561,6972,8774,2684,397
Net margin9.5%8.0%15.1%18.5%19.1%17.2%-262.5%-343.3%-24.4%12.2%17.5%23.8%23.5%
Diluted EPS$3.43$3.02$5.93$7.53$8.56$8.95-$27.05-$20.89-$8.45$6.31$10.94$15.61$16.18
Filing10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K

Income statement lines from each year's 10-K, the year linked to its filing; TTM is the sum of the last four quarters. Free cash flow is operating cash flow less capital expenditure; the effective tax rate is income tax over pre-tax income; margins are the line over revenue. Gross profit is revenue less cost of revenue, and operating income is revenue less the company's own total costs, where the statement does not print those lines. Those four are arithmetic on the filed numbers; everything else is as filed. Money is in $ million as the company files it, or in $ billion by the switch above the tables; per share figures and share counts are as they are. † The year as the company last restated it in a later filing; rest on a figure for the one first filed. EPS is as filed.

Cash flow and capital returned

FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021 FY2022 FY2023FY2024FY2025TTM
Operating cash flow1,7441,9462,5172,8753,4793,716-3,732-1,8784824,4775,2656,4656,786
Capital expenditure1,8111,6132,4945643,6603,0251,9652,2302,7103,8973,2685,2297,202
Free cash flow-67.633322.32,310-181692-5,697-4,108-2,2285801,9971,236-416
Free cash flow margin-0.8%4.0%0.3%26.3%-1.9%6.3%-257.9%-268.1%-25.2%4.2%12.1%6.9%-2.2%
Depreciation and amortisation7728278959511,0341,2461,2791,2931,4071,4551,6001,7181,814
Share-based compensation26.136.132.769.546.175.939.864.036.0126267175151
Buybacks23620030022557599.60.00.0n/a0.00.01,1591,953
Dividends paid1992803464375276033260.00.00.01078241,150
Dividend per sharen/an/a$1.71$2.16$2.60$2.96$0.78n/a$0.00$0.00$0.95$3.50$5.00
Diluted shares, weighted223m221m216m216m212m210m214m252m255m283m279m274m268m
Shares outstanding at period endn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a267m
Filing10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K

Buybacks and dividends are the cash paid in the year, from the cash flow statement; the dividend per share is as declared. Diluted shares are the weighted average for the year; a falling count is the buybacks net of issuance. TTM sums the last four quarters; the share counts are the latest quarter's.

Balance sheet at year end

FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021 FY2022 FY2023FY2024FY2025TTM
Total assets20,71320,78222,31022,36127,69830,32032,46532,25833,77635,13137,07041,61944,644
Cash and equivalents1891221331202882443,6842,7021,935497388825875
Receivables261239292319325306284408531405371317441
Inventory123121114111154162119150224248265264267
Goodwill2872872882891,3781,386809809809809808808808
Total debt, as filedn/a8,5279,3877,53910,77811,03519,32921,09023,39121,45220,07621,34522,836
Long-term debt including finance leases7,6447,6288,1026,3518,3558,41417,95818,84721,30319,73218,47318,16521,263
Operating lease liabilitiesn/an/an/an/an/a602564535523613670600611
Finance lease liabilitiesn/an/an/an/an/a197162421317343110155n/a
Shareholders' equity8,2848,0639,12110,70211,10512,1648,7615,0862,8694,7247,56310,03710,236
Filing10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K

At the fiscal year end; the TTM column is the latest quarter end. A line the company does not tag under the usual name is left out.

Compounded growth

10 years5 years3 yearsTTM
Sales growth, compounded8.0%52.0%26.6%8.7%
Profit growth, compounded20.4%n/an/a22.0%
Return on equity, average-6.7%-12.4%38.8%42.5%

Compounded growth is the latest fiscal year over the year that many years earlier, annualised; the TTM column is the last four quarters over the four before. Return on equity is net income over shareholders' equity at each year end, averaged over the window (the TTM column is the latest year alone); equity is the parent's shareholders' equity as tagged in the 10-K. Arithmetic on filed numbers, nothing forecast.

Peers: Water Transportation

CompanyMarket capP/EROEOp. marginSales growth
TTM
Debt to equityDiv. yield
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. RCL$66.9 billion15.4743.0%27.3%8.7%2.232.0%
Carnival Corp. Ltd. CCL$30.6 billion9.9623.7%16.3%5.2%1.978.7%
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. NCLH$6.5 billion8.9029.6%15.1%6.2%5.40n/a

The names on this site in the same industry (the SEC's SIC description), by market capitalisation. Each figure is the same arithmetic as the ratio box above, on each company's own filings and latest close.

Filings

FilingPeriodFiledWhere
10-Q30 June 202628 July 2026EDGAR
10-Q31 March 202630 April 2026EDGAR
10-K31 December 202511 February 2026EDGAR
10-Q30 September 202528 October 2025EDGAR
10-Q30 June 202529 July 2025EDGAR
10-Q31 March 202529 April 2025EDGAR
10-K31 December 202414 February 2025EDGAR
10-Q30 September 202429 October 2024EDGAR
10-Q30 June 202425 July 2024EDGAR
10-Q31 March 202425 April 2024EDGAR

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