Carnival Share Discussion Threads

[wad collector] 02/10/2019 13:05

Added a few at 3218. That is the bottom.....definitely!

[pierre oreilly] 02/10/2019 11:41

Got some more at £32.32, blood on the streets and all that. Part of the slight problem is that cash in my isa earns no interest, so there's a pressure to buy and get some income rather than nothing.

I'm discovering that being loyal to cunard reaps pretty good benefits in terms of on board credit, wifi, free booze 'parties', and free restaurant visits. Makes the net cost of a cunard trip cheaper than cheap cruise lines, basically pay the higher initial fare, and the obc pays for everything else, instead of paying a cheaper fare and having a big bill at the end.

[pierre oreilly] 02/10/2019 08:37

There's the proof that bottom fishing is harder than it looks.

[lurker] 01/10/2019 16:32

Missed £33 15 minutes ago, but not an issue as still awaitimg TEL cash

[andrewbaker] 30/9/2019 15:41

Since my comment earlier in the year, Carnival has dropped even lower: and now is a pretty good income stock: good dividend, well covered, and in a market where even if it doesn't pick up on turnover, it'll still be likely to continue paying a good divi. So, for those looking for a pretty safe 4.7% - and likely increasing - yield; time to buy, or maybe buy more.

[lurker] 27/9/2019 11:42

I like buying at the bottom...£33 lookjs like one

[pierre oreilly] 26/9/2019 17:18

There's an almost insignificant chance of buying at the very bottom, just as selling the very top. So you'd probably be correct 99.9% of the time to say that any share purchase wasn't the best timing. Best not to get involved with shares if that is unacceptable to you ... it's just par for the course. Maybe better to think in terms of buying a cashflow, which is a much less volatile parameter.

[wad collector] 26/9/2019 16:34

Hold and forget.

[huntie2] 26/9/2019 14:48

...well, I purchased some shares yesterday. Perhaps not the best timing.....

[pierre oreilly] 26/9/2019 08:10

I bought some more yesterday. As well as the general cruise market growth and baby boomers entering the cruise market, I think many package holiday customers will start looking at cruises for much better value holidays.

[wad collector] 06/9/2019 20:12

No posts in August ; I guess everyone is cruising..

[wad collector] 30/7/2019 10:00

Or go shoot some quoits?

[my retirement fund] 29/7/2019 16:28

QM2! Really! So they don't have anything along the lines of Harmony or Symphony of the seas then? Just stuff thats little better than a large ferry lol. LOL ! Just as I suspected having seen that crud in Bridgetown

[shy tott] 29/7/2019 13:53

Their premium brands, as I'm sure you know, are Holland America, Seabourn, Cunard. At least they are the ones which usually don't often have mass brawls and punch-ups. As to ships, I think QM2 looks the part, but these days to my mind most ships don't look great (from the outside).

[my retirement fund] 29/7/2019 12:00

What would they be?

[shy tott] 29/7/2019 08:59

Well put it like this, CCL have several brands, 3 or 4 of which if you were sailing in them would undoubtedly take pity on royal Caribbean passengers when you docked next to them.

[wad collector] 26/7/2019 17:49

Looks like the share price is going nuclear today. Fusion rather than fission that is...

[shy tott] 17/7/2019 10:45

Strangely, the only thing wrong with the idea is public perception. As an engineering solution it's pretty well perfect (this is with tried and tested fission, not fusion). Also there'd be some cheap cabins for those in the vicinity of the reactors.

Some thought would have to go into disposal - I'm not advocating the method used by the Lenin icebreaker which we saw recently and which simply sailed into the sea and dumped the reactor overboard when they replace it.

[wad collector] 17/7/2019 09:44

Carnival's nuclear fleet ; has a certain ring to it. Only need to wait a millennium for fusion .

[shy tott] 17/7/2019 09:17

A couple of small nuclear reactors could do the job, but as for windmills and batteries.....

[wad collector] 17/7/2019 09:11

Not sure that batteries will take a cruise liner very far ,the power to wt ratio is tiny compared with fuels - though sailing ships might make a comeback.

[toffeeman] 16/7/2019 14:02

If fossil fuel usage becomes material, you can be certain that capital will be deployed to mitigate the problem - battery and wind power for example.

Or if you prefer capitalism will find a way to mitigate the problem using battery and wind power for example :)