Growth Metrics

Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL) FCF Margin (2016 - 2025)

Royal Caribbean Cruises' FCF Margin history spans 16 years, with the latest figure at 2.72% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, FCF Margin rose 4924.0% year-over-year to 2.72%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 6.89%, down 522.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 6.89%, 522.0% down from the prior year.
  • FCF Margin for Q4 2025 was 2.72% at Royal Caribbean Cruises, up from 19.24% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, FCF Margin topped out at 684.09% in Q1 2021 and bottomed at 134.72% in Q4 2022.
  • The 5-year median for FCF Margin is 14.23% (2023), against an average of 61.24%.
  • The largest annual shift saw FCF Margin crashed -52800bps in 2022 before it soared 9113bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Margin shows it stood at 11.32% in 2021, then crashed by -1290bps to 134.72% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 68bps to 43.59% in 2023, then fell by -7bps to 46.52% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 106bps to 2.72% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for RCL's FCF Margin are 2.72% (Q4 2025), 19.24% (Q3 2025), and 11.55% (Q2 2025).