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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

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$79.10BMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-06-30
Float per share$292.39Float divided by shares outstanding in the same filing. A floor under the share price on that date, not the price itself.
Float / net income18.5×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / revenue4.4×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / equity7.7×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.

Every figure here is drawn from the 10-K cover page and the statements behind it, so each one traces to a filing. Public float counts only stock held by non-affiliates, which makes these floors rather than estimates: a high multiple is conclusive, a low one may mean cheap or may mean closely held. The float was measured on 2025-06-30, not today, and each multiple below it uses the figures for the fiscal year ending 2025-12-31 — the year that filing covered.

Valuation over time

18.5× earnings today, against a median of 12.2× across 7 years on record. Above its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2025-06-30$79.10B18.5×
2024-06-28$37.80B13.1×
2023-06-30$24.40B14.4×
2019-06-30$22.00B11.7×
2018-06-30$18.50B10.2×
2017-06-30$19.90B12.2×
2016-06-30$12.10B9.4×

Each float is paired with the fiscal year the filing that stated it covers. Only years where the company reported positive net income appear, because a multiple against a loss is not a multiple.

How this compares in its industry

Percentile among the Water Transportation filers on this site, highest value first. A high percentile means a large figure, which is good for a margin and not for leverage — the ranking says where the company sits, not whether that is where it should be.

MeasureReportedPercentile
Revenue YoY growth8.8%100th
Current ratio0.18x12th
Operating margin27.4%86th
CapEx / revenue29.2%75th
Net margin23.8%71th
Long-term debt / equity1.77x67th
Effective tax rate1.9%67th
SBC / revenue1.0%57th
FCF margin6.9%50th

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 2026-10-27View SEC filing
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

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