RCL Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Royal Caribbean Group | NYSE:RCL)

Royal Caribbean is the world's second-largest cruise company by revenues, operating 71 ships across five global and partner brands in the cruise vacation industry. Brands the company operates include Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea. The company also has a 50% investment in a joint venture that operates TUI Cruises and Hapag-Lloyd Cruises. The selection of brands in the portfolio allows Royal to compete on the basis of innovation, quality of ships and service, variety of itineraries, choice of destinations, and price. The company completed the divestiture of its Azamara brand in 2021, plans to launch its new Celebrity River Cruise brand in 2027, and is set to operate eight private destination locations by 2028.

Royal Caribbean Group trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol RCL.

As of August 12, 2026, RCL stock price climbed to $307.95 with 416,983 million shares trading.

RCL has a beta of 0.68, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. RCL has a correlation of 0.04 to the broad based SPY ETF.

RCL has a market cap of $82.36 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Royal Caribbean Group reported $5 billion in Revenue and $4.21 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $12 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.28.

In the last 3 years, RCL traded as high as $366.50 and as low as $78.35.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that RCL belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VO, CGDV, IVV.

RCL has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +3.3% while the SPY ETF gained +22.7%. However, in the short term, RCL had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +17.5% vs +4.8% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, RCL shares have been beat by the market, returning -4.5% compared to an SPY return of +4.3%.

RCL support price is $300.38 and resistance is $313.92 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that RCL shares will trade within this expected range on the day.