Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd vs Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd trades at $285.5 (market cap $76.75B), while Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF trades at $99.21. The key difference: Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd pays a 1.75% dividend while Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF pays none, and Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF is trading nearer its 52-week high, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| RCL | VNQ | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $76.75B | — |
Sector | Consumer Cyclical | — |
52-Week High | $365.84 | $100.07 |
52-Week Low | $246.71 | $87.00 |
Enterprise Value | $98.03B | — |
Dividend Yield | 1.75% | — |
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Royal Caribbean is the world's second-largest cruise company, operating 64 ships across five global and partner brands in the cruise vacation industry, with 10 more ships on order. 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, allowing it 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 the first quarter of 2021.
Read more on RCL →The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Real Estate 25/50 Index, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small US companies within the real estate sector. The Advisor attempts to replicate the target index by seeking to invest all of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, in order to hold each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. It is non-diversified.
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