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Royal Caribbean Group RCL

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Price History

$6$125.07$244.15$363.22
1993-04 · DCA start$9.19

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

-89.0%-59.3%-29.7%0.0%
1993-042026-08 · -15.2%

Worst drawdown: −89%, peaking Dec 2004 and bottoming Feb 2009 — 111 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$40,100
Value today
$403,272
Return
+905.7%
Months invested
401

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $63,906 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +531.0%.

Lump sum instead — $40,100 all at once in Apr 1993: $1,344,305 (+3252.4%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Aug 2025): $1,338 on $1,300 invested (+2.9%).

⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 1993-04: +905.7%

About Royal Caribbean Group

Royal Caribbean Group, formerly known as Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., is a cruise holding company headquartered in Miami, Florida, United States and incorporated in Liberia. It is the world's second-largest cruise line operator, after Carnival Corporation & plc. As of September 2025, Royal Caribbean Group fully owns three cruise lines: Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea Cruises. It also holds a 50% stake in TUI Cruises, which operates Mein Schiff and Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, with the Group's global fleet consisting of 70 ships. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under consumer discretionary and hotels, resorts & cruise lines, with a market cap of about $82.4B.

It rates High Risk at 3.0/5, meaning several rated factors score badly, so this carries materially more risk than a typical holding.

What pushes the score up: market / volatility (4.3/5) and leverage / financial (4.0/5).

Scoring well: sector / regulatory at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

High Risk(3.0/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility4.3/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)3/537.1
  • Max drawdown from ATH5/589.0
  • Beta vs S&P 5005/52.1
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/5841.9m
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial4.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equity4/52.2
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
Earnings Quality3.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility3/521.7
Concentrationunrated · weight 10%
  • Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
  • Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched
Governanceunrated · weight 10%
  • Board independence %not yet researched
  • Share structurenot yet researched
  • Litigation / audit historynot yet researched
Sector / Regulatory1.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Sector regulatory exposure1/5low

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