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ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD RCL

Water Transportation · CIK 0000884887 · Fiscal year ends 1231

Revenue
$17.94B
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Operating income
$4.91B
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Free cash flow
$1.24B
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31

ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD (RCL) reported revenue of $17.94B and net income of $4.27B for the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31. This page shows 10 annual periods of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Water Transportation.

Income

ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Revenue$17.94B$16.48B$13.90B$8.84B$1.53B$2.21B$10.95B$9.49B$8.78B$8.50B
Cost of revenue$9.08B$8.65B$7.78B$6.62B$2.74B$2.77B$6.06B$5.26B$4.90B$5.02B
Gross profit$8.85B$7.83B$6.12B$2.22B-$1.21B-$556.30M$4.89B$4.23B$3.88B$3.48B
Operating income$4.91B$4.11B$2.88B-$766.00M-$3.87B-$4.60B$2.08B$1.89B$1.74B$1.48B
Net income$4.27B$2.88B$1.70B-$2.16B-$5.26B-$5.80B$1.88B$1.81B$1.63B$1.28B
Research & developmentUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Weighted-average diluted sharesshares 274.00Mshares 279.00Mshares 283.00Mshares 255.00Mshares 252.00Mshares 214.34Mshares 209.93Mshares 211.55Mshares 215.69Mshares 216.32M
Pretax income$4.37B$2.94B$1.71BUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Income tax expense$82.00M$46.00M$6.00M$4.00M-$45.00MUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Diluted EPS$15.61$10.94$6.31$-8.45$-20.89$-27.05$8.95$8.56$7.53$5.93
Selling, general & administrative$2.22B$2.12B$1.79B$1.58B$1.37B$1.20B$1.56B$1.30B$1.19B$1.11B
General & administrativeUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Selling & marketingUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Balance

ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Cash & equivalents$825.00M$388.00M$497.00M$1.94B$2.70B$3.68B$243.74M$287.85M$120.11M$132.60M
Total assets$41.62B$37.07B$35.13B$33.78B$32.26B$32.47B$30.32B$27.70B$22.36B$22.31B
Current assets$2.21B$1.70B$1.79B$3.20B$3.60B$4.31B$1.16B$1.24B$907.64M$748.30M
Total liabilities$31.37B$29.34B$30.23B$30.91B$27.17B$23.70B$17.59B$16.05B$11.66BUnavailable
Current liabilities$12.06B$9.82B$9.40B$8.57B$7.29B$4.54B$7.95B$7.11B$4.85B$4.44B
Total equity incl. NCI$10.24B$7.74B$4.90B$2.87B$5.09B$8.76B$12.16B$11.11B$10.70B$9.12B
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable$0$569.98M$542.02M$0Unavailable
Inventory$264.00M$265.00M$248.00M$224.00M$150.22M$118.70M$162.11M$153.57M$111.39M$114.09M
Accounts receivable$317.00M$371.00M$405.00M$531.00M$408.07M$284.15M$305.82M$324.51M$318.64M$291.90M
Goodwill$808.00M$808.00M$809.00M$809.00M$809.38M$809.48M$1.39B$1.38B$288.51M$288.39M
Long-term debt$18.16B$18.47B$19.73B$21.30B$18.85B$17.96B$8.41B$8.36B$6.35B$8.10B
Accounts payable$953.00M$919.00M$792.00M$647.00M$545.98M$353.42M$563.71M$488.21M$360.11M$305.31M

Cash flow

ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Operating cash flow$6.46B$5.26B$4.48B$481.00M-$1.88B-$3.73B$3.72B$3.48B$2.87B$2.52B
Capital expenditures$5.23B$3.27B$3.90B$2.71B$2.23B$1.97B$3.02B$3.66B$564.14M$2.49B
Investing cash flow-$5.01B-$3.45B-$3.92B-$2.99B-$2.14B-$2.18B-$3.09B-$4.49B-$213.59M-$2.72B
Financing cash flow-$1.02B-$1.92B-$1.99B$1.74B$3.04B$9.35B-$670.37M$1.20B-$2.68B$243.81M
Net change in cash$437.00M-$109.00M-$1.44B-$767.00M-$982.00M$3.44B-$44.11M$167.74M-$12.49M$11.04M
Stock-based compensation$175.00M$267.00M$126.00M$36.00M$64.00M$39.78M$75.93M$46.06M$69.46M$32.66M
Common dividends paid$824.00M$107.00M$0$0$0$326.42M$602.67M$527.49M$437.46M$346.49M
Common share repurchases$1.16B$0$0Unavailable$0$0$99.58M$575.04M$225.00M$299.96M
Depreciation & amortization$1.72B$1.60B$1.46B$1.41B$1.29B$1.28B$1.25B$1.03B$951.19M$894.92M

Derived

ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Free cash flow$1.24B$2.00B$580.00M-$2.23B-$4.11B-$5.70B$691.70M-$180.89M$2.31B$22.33M
Gross margin49.4%47.5%44.1%25.2%-78.8%-25.2%44.6%44.6%44.2%41.0%
Operating margin27.4%24.9%20.7%-8.7%-252.6%-208.3%19.0%20.0%19.9%17.4%
FCF margin6.9%12.1%4.2%-25.2%-268.1%-257.9%6.3%-1.9%26.3%0.3%
SBC / revenue1.0%1.6%0.9%0.4%4.2%1.8%0.7%0.5%0.8%0.4%
Current ratio0.18x0.17x0.19x0.37x0.49x0.95x0.15x0.17x0.19x0.17x
Revenue YoY growth8.8%18.6%57.2%477.0%-30.6%-79.8%15.3%8.2%3.3%Unavailable
Net margin23.8%17.5%12.2%-24.4%-343.3%-262.5%17.2%19.1%18.5%15.1%
R&D / revenueUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
CapEx / revenue29.2%19.8%28.0%30.7%145.6%89.0%27.6%38.6%6.4%29.4%
Long-term debt / equity1.77xUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Effective tax rate1.9%1.6%0.4%UnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open RCL in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-07-28View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-04-30View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-02-11View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-10-28View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-07-29View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-04-29View SEC filing

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