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Bloomberg
3 hours ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Stock Movers: Norwegian, Constellation, Estee Lauder
On this edition of Stock Movers: - Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH) shares fell following worries on the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and how it might impact oil prices. Carnival (CCL) is set to report earnings tomorrow, which could give a read on how travelers are feeling. - Constellation Energy Corporation (CEG) shares rose on word that New York state is pushing to build a nuclear power plant to meet growing demand for clean energy, the first major US reactor project in more than a decade. Governor Kathy Hochul is directing the New York Power Authority to develop and build at least 1 gigawatt of nuclear capacity, enough to power a million homes. Multiple communities upstate are already lining up to host the project, she said Monday during a speech at the Niagara Falls hydroelectric plant. - Estee Lauder (EL) shares gained after Deutsche Bank upgraded the cosmetics company to buy from hold due to increasing evidence that the firm is diversifying beyond China for future growth. Deutsche Bank analyst Stephen Powers says Estee Lauder's investment requirements have been mostly fulfilled to the point where top-line growth can be better leveraged to the benefit of margin and profit recovery going forward
Time of India
12 hours ago
- Business
- Time of India
The hand that guides to buy
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity recognises a wide spectrum of creative work, extending beyond Grand Prix winners to include notable campaigns that earn silvers and bronzes. In " BE Extraordinary ," a series collaborating with Harsh Kapadia, CCO, Grey India , we highlight work that warrants discussion for its execution and results. This segment delves into the Creative Commerce category, exploring campaigns that demonstrate innovative approaches to consumer transactions and business models, driving tangible impact for brands within the commercial sphere. Preserved Promos - Ziploc, VML Ziploc, a brand recognised for its core promise of preserving freshness and extending the life of various items, expanded this fundamental product benefit to the realm of consumer promotions. In collaboration with VML, Ziploc addressed a common consumer frustration: the expiration of discount coupons and grocery vouchers before they could be utilised. The brand introduced an initiative named "Preserved Promos," which allowed for the extended validity of these coupons. The mechanism was straightforward: if a customer included Ziploc products in their shopping cart, the digital or physical coupons they possessed would automatically gain an extended lifespan, preventing their premature expiry. This innovative approach directly aligned Ziploc's established brand equity in preservation with a tangible, practical financial benefit for its consumers, thereby demonstrating a clear and immediate connection between the utility of its product and a prevalent shopping challenge. Recipe for Growth - iFood, DM9 São Paulo "Recipe for Growth" was an initiative from iFood, developed in collaboration with DM9 São Paulo, that addressed a significant challenge faced by new restaurant businesses in Sao Paulo: a high failure rate within their first two years, often due to a lack of business management knowledge despite culinary skill. iFood, as a prominent food delivery service, leveraged its extensive internal data, which included detailed insights into food trends, consumer behavior, and spending habits across various areas. Utilising this proprietary data, iFood created a digital tool designed to function as an evolving restaurant management guide. This tool provided actionable insights that helped restaurant owners make informed decisions regarding their menus, marketing and operations. By directly supporting the success and sustainability of these small businesses, iFood simultaneously reinforced its own growth model, as the prosperity of its restaurant partners directly translated into increased order volumes on its delivery platform. Makeup Payment - MasterCard, MRM Brazil / São Paulo MasterCard introduced "Makeup Payment" in Brazil during Carnival, addressing concerns about security and convenience in crowded environments. The initiative, developed in collaboration with MRM Brazil / São Paulo, involved creating connected jewelry that incorporated NFC payment technology. These wearable devices were designed to blend seamlessly with festive makeup and attire, appearing as forehead ornaments, neck pieces, or other decorative elements. This allowed individuals to make payments without needing to carry wallets or visible payment cards. The integration of payment functionality into personal accessories aimed to provide a secure and unobtrusive method for transactions amidst the chaos and large crowds of the Carnival celebrations. (At BE Extraordinary, a series about the winners at Cannes Lions in collaboration with Harsh Kapadia, CCO, Grey India, we peer outside the Grand Prix, and look at clutter breaking work that picked the silvers and the bronzes, but don't often get discussed.)
Time of India
13 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
The transformed touch points
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity celebrates outstanding creative work across various disciplines, honoring not just Grand Prix winners but also impactful silvers and bronzes. In our " BE Extraordinary " series, a collaboration with Harsh Kapadia, CCO, Grey India , we spotlight campaigns that truly warrant discussion for their strategic depth and exceptional execution. This installment focuses specifically on Brand Experience and Activations , showcasing how brands craft immersive, interactive encounters to forge direct connections with audiences, build lasting impressions, and drive tangible results in dynamic environments. Fictional Insurance - Bogotá, DDB Colombia / RCN Prime The "Fictional Insurance" campaign, a collaboration between an unspecified insurance entity in Bogotá, DDB Colombia, and RCN Prime, aimed to illustrate the relevance and benefit of insurance in an engaging and accessible manner. The initiative leveraged branded entertainment by integrating itself into a crime show broadcast on RCN Prime. Viewers were provided with the interactive opportunity to "insure" fictional characters within the ongoing narrative of the show. Participants could predict the manner in which a specific character might die during the series. If their prediction accurately aligned with the plot's outcome, they would receive a real payout. This novel approach served as an interactive activation, demonstrating the core concept of insurance payouts within an entertaining and relatable context, allowing audiences to experience the tangible benefit of coverage without overt promotional messaging. Ads Cover Rent - Brahma Beer, Africa Creative DDB/São Paulo Brahma, a prominent Brazilian beer brand with strong historical ties to the country's Carnival celebrations, launched the "Ads Cover Rent" initiative in collaboration with Africa Creative DDB, São Paulo. This campaign addressed the challenge of escalating accommodation costs in Brazil during the Carnival period, which often deters tourists. The core of the initiative involved offering tourists who booked apartments through Airbnb a reduced rental fee. In exchange for this financial incentive, the renters agreed to display Brahma-branded banners on their balconies. These banners were not generic; they were custom-designed to fit the specific size and aesthetic of each individual balcony. This provided a direct financial benefit to the vacationers while simultaneously securing prime advertising visibility for Brahma. The strategically placed banners along parade routes effectively transformed private rented spaces into prominent, high-traffic advertising locations for the brand during one of Brazil's largest and most photographed cultural events, maximising brand exposure without the cost of official sponsorship. The Kimberly Price - Plaza Vea, Fahrenheit DDB, Lima Plaza Vea, a supermarket in Peru, launched "The Kimberly Price" campaign, developed with Fahrenheit DDB Lima, to stimulate viewership for Peruvian speed walker Kimberly Garcia's races during the Paris Olympics. A key challenge was that these races were scheduled for late-night hours in Peru, making widespread viewership difficult. To incentivise audiences to tune in, Plaza Vea announced a unique promotion. The pricing of a selection of electronic gadgets, including televisions, refrigerators, and mobile phones, would be directly linked to Kimberly Garcia's bib number. This bib number was a dynamic element, only revealed moments before the start of her race. For instance, if her bib number was 146, certain promotional items would then be offered at a price of S/146 (Peruvian Soles). This mechanism generated significant curiosity and anticipation, directly motivating consumers to watch the live telecast at unconventional hours to discover the discounted prices. The campaign successfully connected the supermarket's brand to national athletic pride and a shared viewing experience, extending beyond traditional promotional methods. The Athlete's Code - Powerade (The Coca-Cola Company), Ogilvy New York "The Athlete's Code" by Powerade, a brand from The Coca-Cola Company, addressed a significant and long-standing issue within professional sports: the potential loss of sponsorships for athletes who take necessary breaks due to injury, mental health struggles, or severe stress. In collaboration with Ogilvy New York, Powerade, which positions itself around athletic recovery, made a public commitment to integrate a specific, protective clause into its sponsorship contracts. This clause guaranteed that Powerade would continue to fulfill its financial obligations to sponsored athletes even if they needed to step away from competition for health-related reasons. The initiative directly aligned with Powerade's core brand promise of supporting comprehensive recovery, extending beyond physical recuperation to include mental well-being. Furthermore, the campaign actively encouraged other brands within the industry to adopt similar protective clauses in their athlete agreements, aiming for systemic change. The campaign was brought to life through a compelling film directed by Babak Khoshnoud, which featured prominent athletes such as Alex Morgan, Tatjana Smith, Linda Motlhalo, and Douglas Matera. These athletes shared their personal experiences and stories related to mental health challenges in their careers, adding authenticity and emotional depth to Powerade's commitment. This narrative was amplified strategically across various digital platforms, social media channels, and notably, during the broadcast of the 2024 Summer Olympics. This multi-platform amplification fostered a global conversation about the critical importance of mental health within the demanding world of professional sports. (At BE Extraordinary, a series about the winners at Cannes Lions in collaboration with Harsh Kapadia, CCO, Grey India, we peer outside the Grand Prix, and look at clutter breaking work that picked the silvers and the bronzes, but don't often get discussed.)
Yahoo
14 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
3 Reasons to Buy Carnival Before Tuesday, and 1 Reason to Sell
Carnival reports its fiscal second-quarter results on Tuesday morning. The stock seems cheap, trading for just 13 times this year's earnings guidance and 11 times next year's analyst profit target. A strong streak of beats and bullish industry momentum are encouraging, but it may not take much to pull the carpet from under investors' feet. 10 stocks we like better than Carnival Corp. › It's time for Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) to drop its quarterly anchor. The world's largest cruise line operator will announce its fiscal second-quarter results before Tuesday's market open. The bellwether will offer a sneak peek for how other cruise line stocks will fare later this summer, with Carnival's fiscal year ending a month earlier than those of its peers. Buying ahead of a financial update isn't for the timid. Stocks move on earnings news, and Carnival shares are likely to be volatile following its earnings release and its subsequent conference call, which will start a half-hour into the trading day. There are plenty of good reasons to believe that Carnival will fare well, but let's also not lose sight of what can bring the shares lower. Expectations are high for the industry's top dog in terms of revenue and passenger volume -- at least on the bottom line. Analysts are modeling $6.21 billion in revenue out of Carnival for the three months ending in May, a modest 7.5% increase. That follows an identical 7.5% year-over-year step up in the fiscal first quarter. Carnival was consistently posting double-, triple-, and even quadruple-digit top-line growth coming out of the pandemic until this fiscal year. The real growth spurts are taking place at the other end of Carnival's income statement. Wall Street pros are targeting an adjusted profit of $0.24 a share. This is more than double -- 118%, to be exact -- what it served up during the fiscal second quarter of 2024. That may seem like an ambitious jump, but Carnival is more than up to the task. The leading cruiser has topped analysts' income estimates for each of the past 10 quarters since returning to operations after the industry's prolonged COVID-19-related shutdown. The degree of the positive surprise has actually stepped up lately. Carnival has come through with at least double-digit percentages for seven straight quarters. Even better: Carnival has topped expectations by at least 94% in three of its past four results. Period EPS Estimate Actual EPS Surprise Fiscal Q3 2023 $0.75 $0.86 15% Fiscal Q4 2023 ($0.13) ($0.07) 46% Fiscal Q1 2024 ($0.18) ($0.14) 22% Fiscal Q2 2024 ($0.02) $0.11 650% Fiscal Q3 2024 $1.15 $1.27 10% Fiscal Q4 2024 $0.07 $0.14 94% Fiscal Q1 2025 $0.02 $0.13 485% Data source: Yahoo! Finance. EPS = earnings per share (adjusted). It's unlikely the company will crank out another triple-digit surprise. Carnival is bumping up against last year's fiscal second quarter, which was only the second time that it turned a profit coming out of the pandemic. However, even a modest beat could send Carnival shares higher. It just can't afford to get seasick at the worst possible time. The strong improvement on the bottom line should slow dramatically from here. Carnival raised its full-year guidance in March, but it sill sees adjusted net income growing a little better than 30% for all of this year. This outlook follows earnings that more than doubled through the first half of this year, even if it falls more than a bit shy of the market's target for the current quarter. Carnival is still cheap as its profit gains starts to normalize. It raised its fiscal 2025 earnings per share outlook from $1.70 to $1.83 per share in March, pricing the stock at a reasonable 13 times this year's earnings guidance. Like the first bullish reason to buy Carnival ahead of its telltale report, this one also gets better. Carnival hasn't extended its outlook far enough to provide a read beyond next year, but analysts see it coming in at adjusted income of $2.16 a share. That translates to an earnings multiple of just 11 times next year's target. It's a low price to pay, and that's without accounting for how analysts continue to revise their estimates higher. Demand continues to grow for an interest in watery getaways, outpacing the industry's own buildout of more ships. Bookings for future sailings have never been stronger across all of the players in this space. Carnival announced in March that it has $7.3 billion in customer deposits for future sailings, a new record for the cruise line at that point of the fiscal year. Momentum is bullish until it runs into some uncharted waters. That brings us to our final section, and it comes preloaded with a good reason to consider holding back until Carnival can say its piece on Tuesday morning. Starting with the obvious, don't feel obligated to ever buy a stock just to get in ahead of a financial update. A single quarter doesn't make or break the investing trajectory for a long-term investor. Having said that, there are some reasons to be wary of diving into Carnival right now. Carnival has a strong record of 10 straight bottom-line beats, the stock is trading for a forward multiple in the tweens, and the majority of Carnival's sailings for the rest of this year have already been booked. But that doesn't mean there's a pleasure cruise coming. Geopolitical tensions are rising, having escalated even over the weekend, and the last place a traveler may want to be at a time of uncertainty is on a floating vessel in the middle of the ocean. The volatility can also rock the economy, eating into the availability of discretionary income to go cruising. Pay attention to anything that Carnival may say about recent bookings. If there's any weakness there, a Carnival stock that's already up nearly 50% over the past year take a hit. I'm a Carnival investor and comfortable with the volatility. I'm not selling, but I'm also aware of the potential near-term pitfalls here. Before you buy stock in Carnival Corp., consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the for investors to buy now… and Carnival Corp. wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. 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Cision Canada
15 hours ago
- Business
- Cision Canada
Cruising into the Future: Carnival Cruise Line Selects DXC Technology to Power Technology Infrastructure
ASHBURN, Va., June 23, 2025 /CNW/ - DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), a leading Fortune 500 global technology services provider, and Carnival Cruise Line, the world's most popular cruise line, today announced a multi-year agreement to power the cruise line's technology infrastructure. This partnership will support Carnival's guest experience across its global fleet, as well as its portside and shoreside operations. DXC will deliver reliable and scalable IT services designed to enhance operational efficiency, improve employee productivity and help ensure a seamless, connected experience for millions of guests sailing annually with Carnival. "At Carnival, we're committed to delivering memorable vacations for our guests, and technology plays a vital role in ensuring they have the best onboard experience," said Sean Kenny, senior vice president and chief information officer at Carnival Cruise Line. "The DXC team demonstrates exceptional technical expertise, responsiveness and a clear commitment to delivering on our long-term vision. With them as our trusted partner, we're investing in technology that strengthens the foundation of our operations to provide a great experience for our guests across our 29 ships globally and supporting our dedicated team members both shipboard and shoreside." Through the partnership, DXC will manage Carnival's core IT infrastructure across all operational environments including shipboard systems, shoreside offices and port facilities. Using an employee-centric delivery model, DXC will ensure that the tools and services provided are tailored to support both Carnival's workforce needs and a consistent guest experience. Services will include workplace support, IT service management, infrastructure operations and security risk management – all delivered with enhanced cybersecurity, expert-level staffing, automation support and a scalable model across its operations. This approach is built to improve resilience and ensure operational consistency across the company's global footprint. "This collaboration with Carnival Cruise Line represents a significant milestone for DXC as we continue to expand our footprint in the hospitality and travel sectors," said Chris Drumgoole, President, Global Infrastructure Services at DXC Technology. "Our goal is clear -- deliver complete operational confidence for our customers by minimizing technology disruptions. By managing their complex IT operations and providing modern solutions, we're proud to help Carnival do what they do best, ensuring every guest enjoys their cruise vacation." With deep engineering skills, industry expertise and a track record of success, DXC is a trusted technology partner to leading travel and hospitality brands around the world. From powering seamless guest experiences to enabling resilient and secure global operations, DXC helps companies modernize core systems and infrastructure to meet evolving customer expectations. For more information, visit About DXC Technology DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global companies run their mission-critical systems and operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private and hybrid clouds. The world's largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deploy services to drive new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experience across their IT estates. Learn more about how we deliver excellence for our customers and colleagues at About Carnival Cruise Line Carnival Cruise Line, part of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK), is the first cruise line to sail over 100 million guests and is proud to be known as America's Cruise Line, for carrying more Americans and serving more U.S. homeports than any other. Since its founding in 1972, Carnival has continually revolutionized the cruise industry and popularized the cruise vacation as an affordable and fun travel option. Carnival operates from 13 U.S. and two Australian homeports, as well as seasonally from Europe and employs more than 50,000 team members representing 120 nationalities. Carnival's fleet of 29 ships reflects an exciting period of growth that continues with the addition of five ships through 2033: a fourth and fifth Excel class ship scheduled for 2027 and 2028 respectively; followed by three additional new ships from an innovative new class currently under development. Carnival's next new guest offering will be the all-new exclusive destination, Celebration Key, set to debut on Grand Bahama this summer.
