but rcl is really expensive. over 130 times.re are cheaper ways to play the cruise ship sector. >> do the charts back that up, carter? >> the charts look quite good by my work. if you take a look at just the standard one year chart, the stock acts well which is to say it's outperforming not only the market but it's keeping up with peers such as the hospitality group, hotels, lodging, gaming. what's also really important here is how the stock is acting in relation to its 2011 high. if you look at the long term chart going back five years, this stock peaked in january exactly three years ago, in 2011, and plunged from 50 to 20. we have recovered all that lost ground. here we are toying with the 50 level yet again and the presumption is after responding to the 50 level, the stock will exceed the 50 level. we are buyers here. we think it's got 57, 58 written all over it. >> maybe expensive. carter's a buyer on the technicals. guys, thanks very much. check out our online version of talking numbers, part of our partnership with yahoo!

rcl is your top pick. is that cold weather going to impact the stock in a good way?ternoon. yeah, we continue to believe that -- if you look at it historically, cold weather, especially in the northern quadrant, let's take the mississippi river east and then say from tennessee north, it generally is very positive for cruise bookings, and wee just started the critical wave period which is when 35% of the industry bookings occur in january and parts of february. from that standpoint alone we're optimistic about the wave period. >> rcl is your top leisure pick for the whole of 2014. remember all the problems that it's competitor carnival had. did that help royal caribbean in any way? >> actually in the caribbean what we've seen is carnival trying to rebuild their brand and having to do that with advertising, promotions, and discounting. on the margin it's hurt both royal and norwegian but to a lesser degree. they are not having to rebuild a brand. what we're seeing is with royal, with the hardware they have, for example the oasis and allure of the seas, where they have

on the cruise line really wants to address and that is the illness that we have on our competitor rcl'sill to a gastrointestinal problem. >> sure. >> what do you say to people who are looking at that to potential customers, the 97% that don't cruise? >> you know, it's interesting because this is a stomach virus, first of all. it affects well over 20 million people in the united states each year. we have so many higher protocols in our industry that it becomes something that is reported. so -- >> basically you saw that the you have to report it when hotels don't, so on and so forth? >> no, i think it's better communication for our guests and we have so much focus on it. we haven't had a failing grade in well over ten years from the center of disease control. we've got the highest record of the large north american cruise lines by a long shot. we're proud of our record. >> ipo'd and you had a phenomenal first six months of stock market performance. now, if i look at the last six months, royal caribbean is beginning to out eer perform by 20%. what does this new ship do for the business? ho