CCL stock holders

Can someone please tell me how to buy 100 shares with our 401K? Thanks!

a self directed acct, or an acct advisor you can call and purchase the stock

recently my wifes acct changed at usair, now American, and we had several options for the acct, we chose a fully self directed acct. we were limited to 95% max of her old acct liquidated and moved as cash into her acct, so this moolah is just like having a self directed IRA now, no one to blame but ourselves if we screw up!:eek:

so if you do not have these options, you might wanna open up an ira and get the stock that way?

You may or may not be able to purchase as part of a 401k, it would depend on the rules within your 401k. You'd need to speak to your plan administrator to find out if they allow self directed options within your plan. To my knowledge, most do not.

Thanks folks!

Investing for financial gain is one thing but if your prime motivation is to get OBC, book your future cruises onboard and you will get the same benefit without risking or tying up your money. No?

If you have the stock AND book onboard or with Future Cruise Deposits purchased onboard, you get double the OBC, on Princess anyway.

CCL Stock has been good to us so far!

If you have the stock AND book onboard or with Future Cruise Deposits purchased onboard, you get double the OBC, on Princess anyway.

 

CCL Stock has been good to us so far!

We do the same thing. On our upcoming B2B, we have $200 OBC for each week.

We bought our CCL stock in 2008 when the stock market tanked for $28 a share. We've done from 2-5 cruises each year, so think it has been a good investment. Plus that OBC is tax free!

It never ceases to amaze me when people post nonsense like this thinking they know that of which they speak.

;)

The entire market is down right now so the price of Carnival Cruise Line stock is down. Since the drop in price is not due to any catastrophes or other event that would normally affect cruise line industry I expect this is a temporary state of affairs so if you do not yet have your hundred shares of Carnival stock now would be a great time to buy it if you've been wishing for some onboard credit with your cruises. Any investment has risks but CCL which owns Princess Cruise Line, Carnival Cruise Line, excetera is pretty safe as compared to other entertainment industry investments.

Any look at the stock market is highly dependent on timing. 1 Jan 16 to current (see above chart) looks like CCL is a serious loser. March 08 to current looks like CCL is a serious winner. Read "How to lie with statistics" by D Huff published in 1932 (?).

CCL has been good to me. Started investing in 2006. Built to over 100 shares in 2007. Collected OBC and dividends ever since.

Your results may vary depending on your timeframe.

JMHO, but I wouldn't be looking at any equities right now. CCL is flyin high like the rest of the market. At this level, chances of a correction are much better than chances of a big gain. Wait until it crashes to open a position. Then your next cruise will be free instead of just $100 OBC.

My point is, this was good advice a month ago when I gave it. This ain't the bull market of the 90's when yah grabbed the high flyers + rode em even higher. You make money buyin low + CCL wasn't/still isn't low!

Reading up on this, it sounds like something worth getting as much info as possible. I noticed under restrictions it mentions the OBC is not applicable to reduced rate booking, and specifically mentions travel agents and their special rates.

I work for an airline, and use the interline rates. Anybody know if those are excluded or included in the shareholder benefit program? Thanks.

-Tony@PVD

So working the numbers:

 

100 shares x $52 per share ÷ $100 OBC per 7-day cruise means you'd have to sail 52 times before seeing a benefit (in addition to standard trading income/losses). :eek:

Do not understand your financial outlook. As long as you own the stock, you own the value of that stock. Every time you cruise you get the OBC which is tax free, and "profit" over and above the value of the stock. You will never lose that money once you have it. You also get at least one dollar a year in stock dividends. If your outlook was correct, why would anyone ever buy stock. To make it even more beneficial, buy the stock in your 401k or IRA account. That way you are buying it with pre-tax dollars and pay no taxes on any of the benefits you get out of it. Your position is like saying that the object of blackjack is to get 21.

good question as we read that "fine print" too

we bought the stock anyway, because we do sometimes book non interline

but we got the obc anyway!

though, we didn't book directly with carnival, not sure if that had anything to do with getting the credit or not...

what I suspect is the reduced rate they are talking about is more of the free type of cruise ( incentive, or reward oriented or good will ) we got to overnight free on the Imagination on its inaugural years ago when My wife was in air\sea at her airline, there were some people she worked with and some higher ups that would sometimes get a complete freebie cruise

however, the only way to find out is to buy book and see!

and now would be a bit better time than when we bougt a few months ago, it dipped when we bought then rose, paid dividend and crashed but we've already gotten obc and right now I'm pondering royal stock since they do the same kind of offering too, their stock is much higher or was the other day when I was checking it though

also my wifes stock is in her 401k too!

we just doubled up on some stuff yesterday buying on a low:)

Thanks to Carnival Corporation, I have had the DRIP for years. :D

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=140690&p=irol-proxy

Could someone please post the address for sending the documentation for my 100 shares of Carnival stock for my April cruise? Since retiring, I no longer have access to a scanner or fax, so snail mail it is. Thanks in advance.

CARNIVAL CRUISE LINE*

Guest Administration

3655 N.W. 87th Avenue

Miami, FL 33178

Tel 800 438 6744 ext. 70450

Fax 305 406 6102

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=140690&p=irol-sharebenefit_pf

and a link to the info page

Why can no one Google?

Could someone please post the address for sending the documentation for my 100 shares of Carnival stock for my April cruise? Since retiring, I no longer have access to a scanner or fax, so snail mail it is. Thanks in advance.

You email to guestadmin@carnival.com

I bought my 100 shares a couple of weeks ago when the stock went down. I will be getting $100 OBC for my cruise in September and hope the stock starts going up really soon. BTW, my TA told me that Carnival lets you combine your stock benefits with other rates so always send in the form. All they can do is say no but they are supposed to be less restrictive than RCCL. I also have 100 shares of their stock and have only been able to get my OBC one time.

this month! its almost here finally

I had printed one copy of our boarding stuff earlier but after sending my info in I waited a week or so and looked again to see it had appeared on the finals.

We booked this oct cruise with a non carnival TA so the normal booking stuff we couldn't access thru the carnival manager page. But when you finish your pre-cruise stuff on line with Carnival the credit appears on the booking summary page you can print.

getting ready to send off some cruise bookings to see if we can get our obc for the next three cruises.... 

last time we were on mardis gras using my wifes airline retiree benefit and it was denied a new change in the benefits but most our cruises with carnival now are casino deals and  they say they will still let us get the obc for shareholder so we'll see 

I got $250 obc, a 14 day journey cruise. Just added a 3rd excursion and I will spend onboard to eat. Lovely obc. Mine is a regular booking i believe. Never had trouble getting obc.

On 1/8/2016 at 9:33 PM, Piper88 said:

So working the numbers:

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100 shares x $52 per share ÷ $100 OBC per 7-day cruise means you'd have to sail 52 times before seeing a benefit (in addition to standard trading income/losses). :eek:

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so".

12 hours ago, cruise_mojo said:

getting ready to send off some cruise bookings to see if we can get our obc for the next three cruises.... 

 

last time we were on mardis gras using my wifes airline retiree benefit and it was denied a new change in the benefits but most our cruises with carnival now are casino deals and  they say they will still let us get the obc for shareholder so we'll see 

They denied me when I booked through the Casino offers, 5 different cruises... my Siblings were denied as well... but I will send in the request in every time just in case, you never know, I hope you get some.

thx woodey I suspect well find out shortly since we'll mail this out today, last year we got the obc several times but not on her retiree deal for the first time, ever, this cruise upcoming we have 200 obc on each of two b2b sailings of 5 nights on elation in nov and dec the 27th and dec 2nd this year and just booked mardis gras for next halloween so stuck it in there too