untailored bostonian Posted January 9, 2016 #1 Share Posted January 9, 2016 (edited) What do you get as a benefit for being a stockholder? Is there a minimum number of shares to qualify? Edited January 9, 2016 by untailored bostonian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micahs Grandad Posted January 9, 2016 #2 Share Posted January 9, 2016 100 shares qualifies you to get obc, varies depending upon length of cruise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPaulAR Posted January 9, 2016 #3 Share Posted January 9, 2016 If you want a breakdown google carnival shareholder benefit. Stock price is pretty high now so keep that on mind if this is the only reason you are considering buying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plant Posted January 9, 2016 #4 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Carnival's Annual Report 2014 (the latest). Page 7 tells you the OBC for stockholder's. We still find it worth using. http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=140690&p=irol-reportsannual Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCTribeFan Posted January 9, 2016 #5 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Carnival website. At the bottom is a link to Investor Relations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piper88 Posted January 9, 2016 #6 Share Posted January 9, 2016 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cccer Posted January 9, 2016 #7 Share Posted January 9, 2016 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: What??? You do know that the stock price goes up and you can make money that way. Also Carnival pay a quarterly dividend so there is more money. Please learn about basic investing before giving information like this. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tea4ular Posted January 9, 2016 #8 Share Posted January 9, 2016 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: OMG your rationale is absurd! Glad you're not MY broker! :eek: I've been a shareholder since the stock was trading in the high $20s. In addition to my investment growing I have enjoyed the dividends in addition to the OBC when I've sailed with Carnival and other brands under their umbrella. Of course just as with any investment there is risk involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruise_mojo Posted January 9, 2016 #9 Share Posted January 9, 2016 in my wifeys 401K it was near the high, then dipped a bit and reached the year's high before the plunge a couple days ago already we got paid the 30 cents a share div for 30 bucks and a 50 dollar on board credit for our 5 day feb cruise, so we are pretty happy about it right now, + we are doing div reinvestment on the shares anyway so no reason to panic if the value dips a bit, you just end up with more! the benefit also applies to princess, Holland America, I think costa too, and maybe cunard? I got the paperwork on it somewhere what you do is send a copy of the position from a monthly statement with your acct number blacked out, within a couple months of your next cruise and they credit you within a few hours to a week or so depending on how you sent the info in, most peeps fax it, we mailed our trade confrm in on ours hope this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SadieN Posted January 9, 2016 #10 Share Posted January 9, 2016 ........... the benefit also applies to princess, Holland America, I think costa too, and maybe cunard? I got the paperwork on it somewhere ........... Applies to all Carnival Corp brands worldwide. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRocks Posted January 9, 2016 #11 Share Posted January 9, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StolidCruiser Posted January 9, 2016 #12 Share Posted January 9, 2016 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: 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. It never ceases to amaze me when people post nonsense like this thinking they know that of which they speak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinfanatic Posted January 9, 2016 #13 Share Posted January 9, 2016 sometimes I'm guessing that the answer is known before asked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retired_to_Cruise Posted January 9, 2016 #14 Share Posted January 9, 2016 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: Your view of profit on stocks is the strangest I have ever seen. CCL gives you a $100.00 to 120.00 stock dividend a year. We took 4 cruises in 2015 ($100.00 OBC for each cruise). So that is $500.00 in benefits for owning 100 shares. That is almost a 10% return on investment. Plus we paid 46.00 a share when we bought them, so that is another $600.00 increase in value. Where else can you get that kind of return? AND, you still own the stock. And, if you bought them with IRA pretax dollars, you pay no taxes until you sell them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRocks Posted January 9, 2016 #15 Share Posted January 9, 2016 It never ceases to amaze me when people post nonsense like this thinking they know that of which they speak. It never ceases to amaze me someone would visit an internet message board + criticize or attempt to stifle others opinions. That's PRECISELY what message boards are for + it was offered PRECISELY as an opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruise_mojo Posted January 9, 2016 #16 Share Posted January 9, 2016 FREE! with our carnival card! we blew a cagillion points and sailed on the valor for free, had an extended balcony aft:) we're already 1/5 the way to another free one! that is to say a 7 day one where we get a great deal and the way redemption works on the card we could still get obc too!:eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiseHealing Posted January 9, 2016 #17 Share Posted January 9, 2016 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 yourself and the rest of us a favor, keep your novice, immature comments about stocks and investing to yourself. You make it appear that you pay the stock price and have to cruise 52 times before you get your money back. Don't you know that the stock has a value and it also pays a quarterly dividend? So, if you bought the stock at the current price and held it for a year your yield would be 2.20%. However, every time you collect a share holder OBC your yield improves. I have held CCL for over 6 years and have sailed 17 times since pruchasing the stock. That is 17 times I have recieved an OBC of no less than $50 per cruise. I can tell you that most of my OBC's were over $50 per cruise. Class is over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belkin Posted January 9, 2016 #18 Share Posted January 9, 2016 FREE! with our carnival card! we blew a cagillion points and sailed on the valor for free, had an extended balcony aft:) we're already 1/5 the way to another free one! that is to say a 7 day one where we get a great deal and the way redemption works on the card we could still get obc too!:eek: Feels good for sure! We did the same thing but then someone on this board turned us on to the Barclay Arrival card. With this card you get double points on everything and when you redeem your points they give you 5% of them back. The downside is the card is not free I think it is $89 a year although the first year is free. We charge a lot because I travel for work so it works out good for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jana60 Posted January 9, 2016 #19 Share Posted January 9, 2016 (edited) To say that an investment is not good to buy because it might go down doesn't really make sense. It is true that Carnival is selling at quite a high price right now so if you do not cruise frequently you might want to wait a little while on that purchase. I personally purchased my hundred shares for $38.25 and it's currently selling for $52.05. So the value of my stock has increased by $1380. During this time. I have also received $160 in dividends and $300 in shareholder benefit onboard credit. I will receive an additional $150 in onboard credit for shareholder benefit in February. Which will give me a total gain of $1990. This is a 52% increase in my investment in 20 months. Not too shabby! Edited January 9, 2016 by Jana60 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruise_mojo Posted January 9, 2016 #20 Share Posted January 9, 2016 (edited) but we had redeemed old carnival credit card points when it was juniper, but with our other deals we get on cruises we ended up taking the points for 500 off a couple ncl cruises when we booked under the old plan when Barclays took over we still have the free card, and had used points many times to redeem against carnival charges, BUT and this is a big BUT! About three years ago I was fiddling with the redemption thingy and saw that on carnival only you got a 3 for 2 redemption above a 100k points! sooooo if you have a 100k or more and a big charge on a cruise, like say 1500 you can pay the whole charge off with that 100k! when I realized this, I instantly stopped redeeming smaller point awards and just saved em up, finally when we got to 100k we booked the Valor Cruise in the spring and paid the entire amount up front then we spent the rest of the year building points and by the time we cruised we had enough to pay the whole cruise off in ONE SWELL FOOP!:) BUT WE DO use that card for just about everything! no downside really to it, but you don't get that 3 4 2 deal on princess or other carnival brands with the carnival points, ( you might do that with a princess or costa card though?) Edited January 9, 2016 by cruise_mojo c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DebJ14 Posted January 9, 2016 #21 Share Posted January 9, 2016 (edited) OMG your rationale is absurd! Glad you're not MY broker! :eek: I've been a shareholder since the stock was trading in the high $20s. In addition to my investment growing I have enjoyed the dividends in addition to the OBC when I've sailed with Carnival and other brands under their umbrella. Of course just as with any investment there is risk involved. I have bought and sold Carnival many times over the years making a profit every time. Plus, we have received the $100 OBC on probably 20 cruises between CCL, HAL and Princess, not to mention the quarterly dividend. I never sell until it goes X dividend and always buy it back in time for the next one. It has been a great investment. I trade it in my retirement account so the taxes are deferred too. Edited January 9, 2016 by DebJ14 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winddawn Posted January 9, 2016 #22 Share Posted January 9, 2016 It never ceases to amaze me when people post nonsense like this thinking they know that of which they speak. You'd think they have a crystal ball, wouldn't you? Lol. I've had my CCL shares for years and wouldn't even think of selling them unless I get in such bad shape I can't step foot on a cruise ship. OMG! Buy CCL and hold if you're an avid cruiser. Enough said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
untailored bostonian Posted January 9, 2016 Author #23 Share Posted January 9, 2016 What??? You do know that the stock price goes up and you can make money that way. Also Carnival pay a quarterly dividend so there is more money. Please learn about basic investing before giving information like this. Yeah, but even given the week we have had the CCL stock is riding high. A year ago the price was a bit lower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
untailored bostonian Posted January 9, 2016 Author #24 Share Posted January 9, 2016 It never ceases to amaze me when people post nonsense like this thinking they know that of which they speak. I asked the question because I was looking at the carnage this week and then looked at CCL's value. The stock actually held its value ok. I wish the thought had passed my mind 2 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfaaa Posted January 9, 2016 #25 Share Posted January 9, 2016 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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