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1 hour ago, AlmondFarmer said:

Great news for those of us who boldly purchased in Spring of 2020 for $22/share.

Remember to hang on to 100 shares for on board credit. 

 

Yeah at what point do you do some profit taking or just let it ride!

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Sigh, file this one under would'a, could'a, should'a. 

I believe in 2020 the price had gone down as low as $19.00 a share. I was watching and hoping it would have gone down to $10.00 a share, then I would have bought 100 shares. But alas, that never happened, and more than likely now, never will🙁

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I took $500 from each of my kids and bought them stock when it was around $40/share (and used the rest of their money to buy index funds).  I figured this would get them excited about the stock market.  I really didn't anticipate it going up so much, and now they have big dreams of how they could spend this money.  They're 11-14 years old, so no actual need for money at this point.  I'll just let it ride out for a few more years and they can keep day dreaming how to blow it.  I am kicking myself for not buying some for myself at the same time - silly me did the safe move and put all of mine in the index funds!

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23 hours ago, AlmondFarmer said:

Great news for those of us who boldly purchased in Spring of 2020 for $22/share.

Remember to hang on to 100 shares for on board credit. 

 

I got mine at $33.  I unfortunately only bought 100 shares so that I could get the cruise credits.  Definitely should have bought A LOT more!

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This is worth a mention, the Blog nor the posters here are/should be offering investment advice. They are not. These gains by Royal are beyond expectations and those who bought low have and deserve bragging rights. 

Does this mean you missed the RCL gravy train? No, not really. There are lots of goods things coming down the pike; being new ships and Perfect Day destinations. We all know the ships are sailing at full capacity for all of next year or more.

With investment apps like Robinhood and Webull etc. where with 10 minutes of time you can open an account for free, trade commission free, and (here's the important part) buy fractional shares for as little as $1 or $5  ahhhhh..... nobody here is going to say you shouldn't be doing that. Even at todays share price of $205 or so. The same folks here will also not pass judgement how frequently you've been using your drink package. 

 

 

 

 

 

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On 10/15/2024 at 1:22 PM, Matt said:

What's eye opening isn't RCL's price. It's how much lower Carnival and NCLH stock prices are. 

This discrepancy is largely due to the outstanding number of shares of stock. Carnival has a lot higher number of shares.

Current estimates:

RCL has over 257 Million

Carnival has over 1.1 Billion

As some have mentioned, makes you wonder if RCL will have a stock split in the future.

 

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4 hours ago, Freegirl said:

This discrepancy is largely due to the outstanding number of shares of stock. Carnival has a lot higher number of shares.

Current estimates:

RCL has over 257 Million

Carnival has over 1.1 Billion

As some have mentioned, makes you wonder if RCL will have a stock split in the future.

 

 

On 10/16/2024 at 1:22 AM, Matt said:

What's eye opening isn't RCL's price. It's how much lower Carnival and NCLH stock prices are. 

 

This is not investment advice but my observation for those who are interested.

If you look at the debt levels, Royal Caribbean has much higher levels vs NCL; and the increase since the pandemic has also been greater for RCL than NCL.

But when you look at the debt to equity ratio, NCL has a ratio of close to 19 while RCL has a ratio of around 3.5. Basically as a proportion of the company's value, NCL is using more debt to run its business than RCL. The quick take is that the lower number the better.

 

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21 hours ago, bobroo said:

This is worth a mention, the Blog nor the posters here are/should be offering investment advice

100%. Just sharing observations, no investment advice here. 

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On 10/15/2024 at 3:29 PM, Bean79 said:

Yeah at what point do you do some profit taking or just let it ride!

I've sold and bought back in twice this year so far.  It will take many cruises for the $100 Shareholder Benefit to reach the same level as the realized gains.

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On 10/15/2024 at 1:22 PM, Matt said:

What's eye opening isn't RCL's price. It's how much lower Carnival and NCLH stock prices are. 

Yeah I find that a bit odd but they're still profitable for me so no complaints here. 

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Going to try and do a little swing trading with earnings coming up next week.  Plan is to buy 100 shares tomorrow and let earnings results determine if I sell for a quick profit or turn my short-term trade into a long-term investment.  Best case, I walk away with some extra cash I can use on my upcoming cruise at XMAS.  Worst case, I get $100 OBC for my upcoming cruise at XMAS and become a long-term shareholder.  I am adding RCL into my portfolio anyway (and have cash ready for it), so really all I am doing is moving my timetable up from my already planned dollar cost average approach over the next few months.  Only thing that has me a little worried is the $5 per share expectation, but I think they have it.  RCL will stand for the "Royal Caribbean Lottery" for me next week.

Update: Sold puts last Friday and was assigned 100 shares over the weekend.  Sold some 210 calls due December of 2025 this morning.  Overall, got in for an adjusted price of about $170 per share with upside growth potential to $210 a share and downside protection to $170 per share.  Assuming my shares don't get called away early, I will get the onboard credit and dividends over the next year.

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On 10/24/2024 at 11:41 PM, DoomSlayer said:

Sold puts last Friday and was assigned 100 shares over the weekend.  Sold some 210 calls due December of 2025 this morning.  Overall, got in for an adjusted price of about $170 per share with upside growth potential to $210 a share and downside protection to $170 per share.  Assuming my shares don't get called away early, I will get the onboard credit and dividends over the next year.

Whoops, guess your shares were called away today.  But you should have made a very nice quick profit, so well done!

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1 minute ago, billdauterive said:

Whoops, guess your shares were called away today.  But you should have made a very nice quick profit, so well done!

I did a leap for Dec. 2025, so I doubt they will be called away too soon, but you never know.  I am definitely capped on any further upside gains right now though.  I plan on sending in my statement when I get it on Friday for the onboard credit assuming I am not assigned before then.  All-in-all, about $4.2k in paper profit so far and the potential to keep receiving dividends and on-board credit over the next year.

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Amazing, Royal just keeps climbing!  Anyway, my covered calls from above were so deep in the money I was able to unwind this position.  All in all, I got my OBC for my upcoming cruises and about $4k profit to boot.  I lost some potential upside as the stock shot up, but hey, I am happy with $4k.  I do still have some RCL in my trust and my main account, so I did not lose out completely on the gains.

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