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Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

RCL Consumer Cyclical Travel Services

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $17.9 billion, up 8.80% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 6.48%, EPS fell 5.39%, free cash flow fell 196.4% and total debt rose 20.1%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for three consecutive years, revenue growth for three, operating cash flow growth for five.

277.68 2.33 −0.83%
Market cap
$74.9B
P/E
17.1×
Fwd P/E
16.3×
Dividend yield
1.98%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
2.18
Beneish M
−2.86
Dividend safety
57/100
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Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCL) Debt to equity

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Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.'s debt to equity at the end of the quarter to 30 June 2026 was 2.2×, up 0.1× from fiscal 2025 (2.1×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.7× (fiscal 2017) to 8.2× (fiscal 2022); the current reading is higher than 55% of that period. That is above the Travel Services industry median of 0.2× and above the Consumer Cyclical sector median of 0.2×.

Debt to equity, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
FY2025 2.1× (19.73%)
FY2024 2.6× (40.73%)
FY2023 4.4× (46.29%)
FY2022 8.2× 96.60%
FY2021 4.1× 87.97%
FY2020 2.2× 143.20%
FY2019 0.9× (6.52%)
FY2018 1.0× 37.76%
FY2017 0.7× (31.55%)
FY2016 1.0× (2.69%)

Quarterly newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
Jun 2026 2.2× 3.68%
Mar 2026 2.1× 1.06%
Dec 2025 2.1× 5.71%
Sep 2025 2.0× (2.98%)
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.7× High 8.2×
Ten-year median 2.1×
Current reading's percentile 55

Debt to equity against peers

Company Debt to equity
MMYT MakeMyTrip Limited compare −24.2×
BKNG Booking Holdings Inc. compare −1.9×
TCOM Trip.com Group Limited Sponsored ADR compare 0.2×
ABNB Airbnb, Inc. compare 0.3×
CCL Carnival Corporation compare 1.7×
RCL Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. 2.2×
EXPE Expedia Group, Inc. compare 2.2×
VIK Viking Holdings Ltd. compare 3.7×
NCLH Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. compare 5.8×
Travel Services industry median 0.2×
Consumer Cyclical sector median 0.2×
Market median 0.1×

What Debt to equity is

Debt to Equity Ratio shows how much a company relies on borrowed money compared with the money its shareholders have in the business.

(Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt) ÷ Shareholders Equity (Total)

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