Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCL) scored on five pillars from its reported financial statements, and ranked against 179 Consumer Discretionary companies.
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCL) scores 4.6 out of 10 as of , computed from its reported financial statements. That reads as mixed quality. The reading rests on profitability, and predictability is what holds it back.
One pillar, growth, is unscored because the filings behind it carry too little to judge. It is shown as a dash rather than a zero, and the overall score is the weighted average of what could be scored.
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The Quality Score for RCL stands at 4.6 out of 10 as of October 17, 2026, which puts Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. in the mixed quality band. In this band one or two pillars are usually holding the score up while others drag it down, which the breakdown below makes visible. It rolls Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.’s profitability, solvency, growth, efficiency and predictability into one number, each judged against the norms of its sector.
Ranked with the 179 Consumer Discretionary companies Lemma publishes, the score sits at the 41st percentile, in the lower half of the group, above the bottom quarter. A typical company in the group scores 5.0, and the best quarter starts from 6.1. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is in line with that typical reading.
On profitability, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. scores 7.3, a strong reading. Its peers have a median of 5.1 across 176 Consumer Discretionary companies, which places it well above them, at the 75th percentile. A reading this strong says the business earns well on what it sells and on the capital it uses, the kind of margin profile competitors find hard to copy.
Solvency scores 4.8 out of 10, which reads as average. The median across 141 Consumer Discretionary companies is 5.9, so Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is below its peers on this pillar and ranks at the 33rd percentile. An average solvency reading suggests debt is present but manageable, the normal state for a company that borrows to fund its operations.
Growth has no score for Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Fewer than half of the pillar’s metric weight could be computed from the reported statements, so it is drawn as a dash and left out of the overall rather than counted as a zero. For context, the median growth score across 149 Consumer Discretionary companies is 4.0. Growth needs at least three years of comparable annual statements, so a short or interrupted history leaves it blank.
Efficiency scores 3.9 out of 10, which reads as weak. The median across 170 Consumer Discretionary companies is 6.2, so Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is well below its peers on this pillar and ranks at the 21st percentile. Weak efficiency means more capital is tied up to produce each unit of output, or less of reported profit is arriving as cash.
Predictability scores 1.6 out of 10, which reads as weak. The median across 178 Consumer Discretionary companies is 5.0, so Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is well below its peers on this pillar and ranks at the 6th percentile. Weak predictability means revenue or earnings have swung widely from year to year, so any single year’s figures are a less reliable guide.
The gap between Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.’s best and worst pillar is wide: profitability at 7.3 against predictability at 1.6, 5.7 points apart. An average of two readings this different deserves a closer look than the headline number. A profitability lead usually reflects something durable in the business model rather than a good year. Uneven results make any single year a weaker guide to the next one.
Closing the gap on predictability would do the most for the overall. At the median of Consumer Discretionary companies, 5.0, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. would score about 5.4 instead of 4.6. With one pillar unscored, the overall rests on 80 of the 100 weight points, spread across the four pillars that could be measured (the full set is profitability 25, solvency 20, growth 20, efficiency 15, predictability 20).
For a fair comparison, start with companies of a similar size: the Consumer Discretionary companies below are nearest to Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. by market value, each scored on the same pillars.
How much profit the company generates from its capital and sales.
The company’s ability to service debt and meet its obligations.
How fast revenue, earnings and cash flow are compounding.
How well assets and earnings convert into cash and output.
How stable and consistent results have been over time.
Each metric is scored from 0 to 10 against sector-aware benchmarks, where higher is better. Metrics roll up into five pillars, and the pillars combine into the overall score using the weights shown. Sector-sensitive metrics are judged relative to peers in the same sector.
This score is a systematic, backward-looking read of reported fundamentals. It does not judge valuation, management quality, competitive moat, or future prospects, and can be distorted by one-off items or unusual accounting. Treat it as a starting point, not a recommendation.
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On this reading Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. scores 4.6 out of 10, which reads as mixed quality. Its strongest pillar is profitability, its weakest is predictability. Quality is not the same as a good investment: the score says nothing about the price you would pay.
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. ranks at the 41st percentile of the 179 Consumer Discretionary companies Lemma publishes a score for. The median there is 5.0 and the top quarter starts at 6.1, against Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.’s 4.6.
Five pillars, each scored from 0 to 10 against sector-aware benchmarks and then weighted into one overall reading: profitability, solvency, growth, efficiency and predictability. Everything comes from reported financials, and nothing comes from price, sentiment or forecasts.
This page last changed on October 17, 2026. The score moves with the financial statements, so the page changes when a new filing moves the reading rather than on a schedule. Live figures for RCL are in the app.
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