Stock Holder Credit

[Gusti]

Anyone of you know, if the Credit is still on after April 2006

Thank you

[poetic license]

For now, you must BOOK your future cruise before May to receive the credit, not take the cruise by the end of April. There is a Board meeting in May that will decide the fate of keeping shipboard credits on cruises booked AFTER May 1 ... I am sure RCI will have a press release if the news is positive sometime in May.

[rubrrick]

There is a new thread that gives us till May of '07!!! It pays to have RCL stock.:)

 

Rick

[Fblack]

If you look at the RCL chart you will see that this stock is on a roller coaster ride. Between higher oil prices, price cutting in the industry,rising interest rates, recent bad P.R. on crusing (fires at sea, illness, mystery deaths etc) . The dividend is only 15 cents. Depending on how many shares you need to buy vs. the discount, I can find dozens of better stocks or funds to buy with returns high enough to better any discount.

 

 

 

 

http://www.smartmoney.com/eqsnaps/index.cfm?story=charting&symbol=RCL

[NorCalCruiseGuy]

OK, go ahead and buy another stock. I'll be enjoying my $250 shipboard credit on my next cruise. Sure beats the .15 per share.

[Maggie 3]

I received 100 shares in March 2006 and I now have a credit of $200.00 in May on my Alaska cruise. I faxed a letter and my statement to RCL. Sure works for me.

[negc]

If you look at the RCL chart you will see that this stock is on a roller coaster ride. Between higher oil prices, price cutting in the industry,rising interest rates, recent bad P.R. on crusing (fires at sea, illness, mystery deaths etc) . The dividend is only 15 cents. Depending on how many shares you need to buy vs. the discount, I can find dozens of better stocks or funds to buy with returns high enough to better any discount.

 

 

 

 

http://www.smartmoney.com/eqsnaps/index.cfm?story=charting&symbol=RCL

 

It isn't a discount it is a shipboard credit and the amount varies according to the length of your cruise. The dividend is really immaterial and probably not out of line with the dividends of other similarly priced stocks. Stock prices can be volatile but of late the RCI stock has pretty much settled in around the low to mid $40 range.

[mferranti]

It may be on a roller coaster, but even at the bottoms of the dips it's still higher than the price I paid! :)

[RodPat]

We only paid $24. a share and have gone on at least two cruises a year. that gives us a total of $400 a year tax free. that and the dividend pretty much makes us owning the stock for nothing. I don't think it was a bad deal.Pat

[tuggers]

Hi Pat!

Add me to the list of people who have paid for my stock if you add up all my TAX FREE on board credits. Now my credits are truly all 'gravy'!