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figures (FY2023 to FY2025) come from the FY2025 Form 10-K (accession 0000884887-26-000007); the third quarter of 2026, the third quarter of 2025, the nine-month periods and the September 30, 2026 balance sheet come from the Q3 2026 Form 10-Q (accession 0000884887-26-000044).", "Template: a standard operating-company layout adapted to a cruise operator. Royal Caribbean reports no cost of revenue or gross profit line; its income statement deducts cruise operating expenses (commissions and transportation, onboard, payroll, food, fuel and other operating), then marketing, selling and administrative expenses and depreciation to reach operating income, and the line items here follow that presentation.", "Sign convention: expense lines the statements list as positive amounts (cruise operating expenses, marketing and administrative expenses, depreciation) are stored as positive numbers. Lines the statements print in parentheses (interest expense, the income tax provision, purchases of property and equipment, debt repayments, share repurchases, dividends paid and net investing or financing outflows) are stored as negative numbers. A dash in the filing is stored as zero.", "All amounts are stated in actual US dollars, scaled from the filings' millions. Weighted-average share counts are printed in millions in the filings and are therefore rounded to the nearest million; per-share amounts are as printed, and the company notes that per-share amounts may not calculate exactly because of rounding.", "Diluted earnings per share is computed on 'Net Income attributable to Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. for diluted earnings per share', which adds back interest and inducement expense on convertible notes under the if-converted method: $16 million in FY2025, $175 million in FY2024, $88 million in FY2023 and $16 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2025 (nothing in the 2026 periods or in either third quarter). That numerator is recorded as net_income_for_diluted_eps; it is why FY2024 and FY2023 diluted EPS ($10.94 and $6.31) are higher than net income attributable to the company divided by diluted shares.", "net_income is consolidated net income including noncontrolling interests; net_income_attributable_to_royal_caribbean is the shareholders' share and the basis of basic EPS.", "free_cash_flow is not a figure the company reports. It is calculated here as net cash provided by operating activities less purchases of property and equipment (for example FY2025: $6,465 million less $5,229 million = $1,236 million).", "total_debt is calculated as the current portion of long-term debt plus long-term debt, as printed on the balance sheet. It excludes operating lease liabilities.", "shares_outstanding is calculated from the balance sheet captions as common shares issued less shares held in treasury (September 30, 2026: 303,899,853 less 36,429,278 = 267,470,575). The 10-Q cover reports 267,470,925 shares outstanding as of October 23, 2026.", "The 10-Q's December 31, 2025 balance sheet column matches the FY2025 10-K balance sheet on every figure recorded here.", "Balance sheets: the 10-K presents year-end balance sheets for December 31, 2025 and 2024 only, so FY2023 carries no balance sheet. The 10-Q presents September 30, 2026 against December 31, 2025, so the September 30, 2026 balance sheet sits on the Q3 FY2026 entry and the year-ago quarter carries none.", "The trailing twelve months to September 30, 2026 are calculated as FY2025 plus the nine months ended September 30, 2026 less the nine months ended September 30, 2025 (e.g. total revenues: $17,935 million + $14,876 million - $13,676 million = $19,135 million). Free cash flow in that view is the calculated operating cash flow less the calculated capital expenditure ($6,897 million - $5,387 million = $1,510 million). Per-share earnings are not given for the trailing period because quarterly per-share amounts cannot simply be added." ], "uncertainties": [ "Cash flow figures for the three months ended September 30 (2026 and 2025) are not given: the 10-Q presents its cash flow statement for the nine-month periods only, and the three-month figures cannot be derived without the six-month statements, which are outside the filings covered here.", "Trailing-twelve-month figures are arithmetic on figures printed in millions and may differ by a million dollars or so from an unrounded calculation." ], "headline": { "period": "Q3 FY2026", "period_end_words": "September 30, 2026", "metrics": [ { "label": "Revenue", "format": "usd", "value": 5591000000, "text": "$5.59 billion", "exact": "$5,591,000,000", "compact": "$5.59B", "abs": "$5.59 billion", "prior_value": 5139000000, "prior": "$5.14 billion", "priorabs": "$5.14 billion", "yoy": "up 8.8%", "source": { "array": "quarterly", "field": "income_statement.total_revenues", "index": 0, "period_label": "Q3 FY2026", "period_end": "2026-09-30", "period_start": "2026-07-01", "span_days": 91, "source_accession": "0000884887-26-000044", "prior_index": 1, "prior_period_label": "Q3 FY2025", "prior_period_end": "2025-09-30", "prior_period_start": "2025-07-01", "prior_span_days": 91, "prior_source_accession": "0000884887-26-000044", "gap_days": 365 } }, { "label": "Net income", "format": "usd", "value": 1728000000, "text": "$1.73 billion", "exact": "$1,728,000,000", "compact": "$1.73B", "abs": "$1.73 billion", "prior_value": 1575000000, "prior": "$1.57 billion", "priorabs": "$1.57 billion", "yoy": "up 9.7%", "source": { "array": "quarterly", "field": "income_statement.net_income_attributable_to_royal_caribbean", "index": 0, "period_label": "Q3 FY2026", "period_end": "2026-09-30", "period_start": "2026-07-01", "span_days": 91, "source_accession": "0000884887-26-000044", "prior_index": 1, "prior_period_label": "Q3 FY2025", "prior_period_end": "2025-09-30", "prior_period_start": "2025-07-01", "prior_span_days": 91, "prior_source_accession": "0000884887-26-000044", "gap_days": 365 } }, { "label": "Diluted EPS", "format": "eps", "value": 6.45, "text": "$6.45", "exact": "$6.45", "compact": "$6.45", "abs": "$6.45", "prior_value": 5.74, "prior": "$5.74", "priorabs": "$5.74", "yoy": "up 12.4%", "source": { "array": "quarterly", "field": "income_statement.diluted_eps", "index": 0, "period_label": "Q3 FY2026", "period_end": "2026-09-30", "period_start": "2026-07-01", "span_days": 91, "source_accession": "0000884887-26-000044", "prior_index": 1, "prior_period_label": "Q3 FY2025", "prior_period_end": "2025-09-30", "prior_period_start": "2025-07-01", "prior_span_days": 91, "prior_source_accession": "0000884887-26-000044", "gap_days": 365 } }, { "label": "Operating income", "format": "usd", "value": 1871000000, "text": "$1.87 billion", "exact": "$1,871,000,000", "compact": "$1.87B", "abs": "$1.87 billion", "prior_value": 1702000000, "prior": "$1.70 billion", "priorabs": "$1.70 billion", "yoy": "up 9.9%", "source": { "array": "quarterly", "field": "income_statement.operating_income", "index": 0, "period_label": "Q3 FY2026", "period_end": "2026-09-30", "period_start": "2026-07-01", "span_days": 91, "source_accession": "0000884887-26-000044", "prior_index": 1, "prior_period_label": "Q3 FY2025", "prior_period_end": "2025-09-30", "prior_period_start": "2025-07-01", "prior_span_days": 91, "prior_source_accession": "0000884887-26-000044", "gap_days": 365 } }, { "label": "Onboard and other revenue", "format": "usd", "value": 1706000000, "text": "$1.71 billion", "exact": "$1,706,000,000", "compact": "$1.71B", "abs": "$1.71 billion", "prior_value": 1502000000, "prior": "$1.50 billion", "priorabs": "$1.50 billion", "yoy": "up 13.6%", "source": { "array": "quarterly", "field": "income_statement.onboard_and_other_revenues", "index": 0, "period_label": "Q3 FY2026", "period_end": "2026-09-30", "period_start": "2026-07-01", "span_days": 91, "source_accession": "0000884887-26-000044", "prior_index": 1, "prior_period_label": "Q3 FY2025", "prior_period_end": "2025-09-30", "prior_period_start": "2025-07-01", "prior_span_days": 91, "prior_source_accession": "0000884887-26-000044", "gap_days": 365 } } ], "summary": "Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. reported total revenue of $5.59 billion for Q3 FY2026, the quarter ended September 30, 2026, up 8.8% from a year earlier, as new ships including Legend of the Seas added capacity. Net income attributable to Royal Caribbean was $1.73 billion, up 9.7%, or $6.45 per diluted share compared with $5.74 in the same quarter a year earlier. Operating income was $1.87 billion, up 9.9%, and onboard and other revenue, which covers spending on board and ashore such as beverages, specialty dining and shore excursions, was $1.71 billion, up 13.6%.", "qa": [ { "q": "How much revenue did Royal Caribbean make in Q3 FY2026?", "a": "Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. reported total revenue of $5.59 billion for Q3 FY2026, the quarter ended September 30, 2026. That is up 8.8% from $5.14 billion in the same quarter a year earlier." }, { "q": "What was Royal Caribbean's net income and EPS in Q3 FY2026?", "a": "Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. reported net income attributable to the company of $1.73 billion, or $6.45 per diluted share, for Q3 FY2026, the quarter ended September 30, 2026. Net income was up 9.7% from the same quarter a year earlier, when diluted earnings were $5.74 per share." }, { "q": "What was Royal Caribbean's operating income in Q3 FY2026?", "a": "Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. reported operating income of $1.87 billion for Q3 FY2026, the quarter ended September 30, 2026, up 9.9% from $1.70 billion a year earlier." }, { "q": "How much onboard revenue did Royal Caribbean make in Q3 FY2026?", "a": "Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. reported onboard and other revenue of $1.71 billion for Q3 FY2026, up 13.6% from $1.50 billion a year earlier. 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