Carnival Corp Ltd. vs Matson, Inc., two Marine Shipping stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where CCL and MATX diverge most: on revenue growth, CCL reads +5.4% and MATX reads +0.2%; on debt / equity, CCL reads 1.73 and MATX reads 0.12. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's CCL price has a different growth bar priced in than MATX (+16.3% implied for CCL vs +8.8% for MATX); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What CCL's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | CCL | MATX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $26.35 | $226.08 |
| Market cap | $36.0B | $6.9B |
| Sector | Marine Shipping | Marine Shipping |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +16.3% | +8.8% |
| P/E | 11.4 | 15.2 |
| P/B | 2.54 | 2.47 |
| P/S | 1.31 | 1.98 |
| EV/EBITDA | 8.1 | 10.2 |
| Revenue growth | +5.4% | +0.2% |
| Operating margin | 26.3% | 16.4% |
| Net margin | 11.4% | 13.4% |
| Return on equity | 22.1% | 16.7% |
| Return on assets | 6.2% | 9.8% |
| Return on invested capital | 11.3% | 13.3% |
| FCF yield | 8.8% | 3.0% |
| Dividend yield | 7.4% | 0.6% |
| Debt / equity | 1.73 | 0.12 |
| Current ratio | 0.27 | 0.89 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 6.66 | 7.56 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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