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Largest Cruises Public Companies
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Royal Caribbean, Viking Cruises, Carnival, Norwegian Cruise Line and EIH.
 | Royal Caribbean is the world's second-largest cruise company by revenues, operating 69 ships across five global and partner brands in the cruise vacation industry. 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. The selection of brands in the portfolio allows Royal 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 2021, plans to launch its new Celebrity River Cruise brand in 2027, and is set to operate eight private destination locations by 2028 (up from three currently). | $275 | +7% | $74B | $95B | 5.3x | 13.4x | ||
| Viking Holdings Ltd is a travel company, with a fleet of 92 small ships, which view as floating hotels. It offers travel experiences on all seven continents in all three categories of the cruise industry river, ocean, and expedition cruising. The Group defines its products based on the type of cruise offering and language of the cruise service. The River segment provides river cruises outside the United States to English-speaking passengers. The Ocean segment offers ocean cruises to English-speaking passengers. Other include operating segments that are not individually reportable, consisting of expedition cruises for English-speaking passengers (Expedition), Mississippi River cruises for English-speaking passengers, and Viking China, which includes cruises for Mandarin. | $93 | +107% | $41B | $43B | 6.6x | 23.2x | ||
 | Carnival is the largest global cruise company, with more than 90 ships in service. Its portfolio of brands includes Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America, Princess Cruises, and Seabourn in North America; P&O Cruises and Cunard in the United Kingdom; Aida in Germany; and Costa Cruises in Southern Europe. It recently folded its P&O Australia brand into Carnival. The firm also owns Holland America Princess Alaska Tours in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon. Carnival's brands attracted nearly 14 million guests in 2025. | $27 | +28% | $37B | $62B | - | - | ||
| Norwegian Cruise Line is the world's third-largest publicly traded cruise company by berths (around 71,000). It operates 34 ships across three brands—Norwegian, Oceania, and Regent Seven Seas—offering both freestyle and luxury cruising. The company redeployed its entire fleet as of May 2022. With 13 passenger vessels on order among its brands through 2036, representing 38,400 incremental berths, Norwegian is increasing capacity faster than its peers, expanding its brand globally. Norwegian sails to around 700 global destinations. | $18 | +3% | $8B | $23B | 2.4x | 8.5x | ||
 | EIH Ltd is an Indian-based company predominantly engaged in owning and managing premium luxury hotels and cruisers under the luxury Oberoi, Maidens, and Trident brands. The company is also involved in in-flight catering, airport restaurants, project management, and corporate air charters. | $3 | -18% | $2B | $2B | 6.4x | 16.8x | ||
| Lindblad Expeditions Holdings Inc provides expedition cruising and adventure travel services. The company operates in two segments: Lindblad and Land Experiences, of which Lindblad generates the vast majority of its revenue. It offers itineraries that feature up-close encounters with wildlife, nature, history, and culture, as well as promote guest empowerment and interactivity. It operates expeditions on intimately-scaled ships and interaction between guests, crew, and the teams of scientists, naturalists, researchers, and photographers that participate in the expeditions. Lindblad operates a fleet of twelve owned expedition ships and five seasonal charter vessels under the Lindblad brand. | $23 | +115% | $1B | $2B | 2.4x | 14.8x | ||
 | Bonheur ASA was initially a Norwegian shipping company. Currently, the company is engaged in several businesses. It provides services through four segments: Other Investments, Renewable Energy, Cruise, and Wind Services. The renewable energy segment is involved in developing, constructing, and operating wind farms in Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, and the USA. The wind Service segment is engaged in logistics and services within the offshore wind industry. Cruise owns and operates four cruise ships and provides a diverse range of cruises, The other investments segment has investments within media, real estate, bonds, and shares. | $28 | +15% | $1B | $1B | 0.9x | 2.8x | ||
| Havila Kystruten AS is a shipping company, which sails the classic coastal journey between Bergen and Kirkenes with the Norwegian coast's environmentally friendly ship. | $6 | +10% | $105M | $84M | 0.4x | 2.1x | ||
 | Bestone.Com Co Ltd offers travel services. The Company mainly provides domestic and overseas cruise travel services. Bestone.Com also offers travel media development and operation services. | $12 | -35% | $18M | $16M | 0.9x | 39.1x | ||
| Median | $23 | +10% | $2B | $2B | 2.4x | 14.1x |
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