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ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD RCL

Water Transportation · CIK 0000884887 · Fiscal year ends 1231

Revenue
$19.13B
Fiscal year ended 2026-09-30
Operating income
$5.27B
Fiscal year ended 2026-09-30
Free cash flow
$1.51B
Fiscal year ended 2026-09-30

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 $19.13B and net income of $4.55B for the fiscal year ended 2026-09-30. This page shows 1 annual period 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.
Metric2026-09-30
Revenue$19.13B
Cost of revenue$9.75B
Gross profit$9.39B
Operating income$5.27B
Net income$4.55B
Research & developmentUnavailable
Weighted-average diluted sharesUnavailable
Pretax income$4.66B
Income tax expense$82.00M
Diluted EPSUnavailable
Selling, general & administrative$2.24B
General & administrativeUnavailable
Selling & marketingUnavailable

Balance

ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-30
Cash & equivalents$851.00M
Total assets$44.81B
Current assets$2.47B
Total liabilities$32.90B
Current liabilities$11.41B
Total equity incl. NCI$11.91B
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailable
Inventory$304.00M
Accounts receivable$409.00M
Goodwill$808.00M
Long-term debt$20.12B
Accounts payable$979.00M

Cash flow

ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-30
Operating cash flow$6.90B
Capital expenditures$5.39B
Investing cash flow-$5.31B
Financing cash flow-$1.16B
Net change in cash$419.00M
Stock-based compensation$133.00M
Common dividends paid$1.35B
Common share repurchases$1.54B
Depreciation & amortization$1.87B

Derived

ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-09-30
Free cash flow$1.51B
Gross margin49.1%
Operating margin27.6%
FCF margin7.9%
SBC / revenue0.7%
Current ratio0.22x
Revenue YoY growth9.7%
Net margin23.8%
R&D / revenueUnavailable
CapEx / revenue28.2%
Long-term debt / equity1.69x
Effective tax rate1.8%

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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Every accounting identity this site checks — the balance sheet, the gross profit bridge and the cash flow statement — reconciles in every period shown.