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This Kalshi market asks whether Carnival Corp will report >97.3M available lower berth days (ALBDs) in 2026. ALBDs are a capacity metric driven by fleet size, ship deliveries, and days in service. We need Carnival's historical ALBD trajectory, 2026 capacity guidance, and fleet additions/retirements.

# Event Will Carnival Corporation report Above 97.3 million available lower berth days in 2026? # Outcomes to forecast - **Yes** (2026 ALBDs > 97.3M) - **No** (2026 ALBDs ≤ 97.3M) # Kalshi market anchor **Current YES price: 81.00%** | 7-day change: +5pp | 30-day change: +5pp | Avg daily volume: 1,251 contracts | Price range observed: 76–81% | Only 3 days of data — limited price history but directionally rising. # Sub-question answers 1. **Carnival ALBDs for 2023, 2024, 2025?** — FY2023: ~91.3M [SEC ARS FY2023]; FY2024: ~95.5–96.0M (implied from quarterly data) [SEC 8-K FY2024]; FY2025 guidance raised to **96.5M** as of Q3 2025 [SEC 8-K FY2025 Q3]. 2. **2026 capacity guidance?** — No explicit ALBD figure given for FY2026; management cites "disciplined capacity growth" and $7B adjusted EBITDA target under new PROPEL framework [SEC 8-K FY2026 Q1]. Booked position for 2026 is at record-high prices [SEC 8-K FY2025 Q3]. 3. **New ships 2025–2026?** — Star Princess (~4,300 LB, 2025), AIDA LNG ship (~3,200 LB, 2025), Costa new ship (~5,200 LB, 2025), new Carnival Excel-class (~5,400 LB, 2026), P&O new ship (~3,100 LB, 2026); $7.8B in committed newbuild financing [SEC 8-K FY2024 Q4]. Specific delivery schedules not confirmed in research. 4. **Kalshi market price?** — 81% YES [Kalshi direct]. 5. **Implied growth rate to exceed 97.3M?** — Only ~**+0.8%** growth needed from 96.5M (FY2025 revised guidance) to reach 97.3M [code analysis]. From a lower 94–95M base, ~2.4–3.5% needed. # Key facts (high-confidence, factual) 1. [SEC 8-K FY2025 Q3] FY2025 ALBD guidance revised upward to **96.5M**; Q4 2025 estimated at 24.1M 2. [SEC ARS FY2023] FY2023 ALBDs ~91.3M; FY2024 ~95.5–96.0M implies ~4.6% YoY growth 3. [SEC 8-K FY2026 Q1] FY2026 Q1 earnings release already published — company on track for PROPEL targets 4. [Code analysis] Gap from 96.5M (2025 base) to 97.3M threshold is only **0.8M ALBDs** (~0.83% growth) 5. [Code analysis] Monte Carlo using lower 93.5–95.5M base range yields P(exceed 97.3M) ~44% — but this understates the 2025 base given confirmed 96.5M guidance 6. [Wikipedia] Carnival operates 90+ vessels across 8 brands; S&P 500 component # Cross-market signals - **Kalshi direct:** 81% YES, rising trend (+5pp in 7/30 days) - **Kalshi related:** No other ALBD-specific markets found; no arbitrage signals - **Polymarket:** No data found - **Sportsbook:** N/A # Analyst opinions and speculation - Claude/code analysis initially modeled 44% probability — but this used an outdated/lower 2025 base assumption (93.5–95.5M) vs. the confirmed 96.5M guidance, systematically understating probability - With 96.5M as the 2025 anchor, only 0.83% growth needed: even 1 new large ship mid-year delivering ~0.5–0.7M incremental ALBDs would clear the bar - FY2026 Q1 report already published, suggesting year may be partially known — market at 81% may already incorporate partial-year data # Directional lean per outcome - **Yes (>97.3M):** Strong support — 96.5M confirmed 2025 base means only 0.8M more needed; active newbuild pipeline; "disciplined capacity growth" language; FY2026 already underway with Q1 data published; Kalshi at 81% - **No (≤97.3M):** Opposing risks — unexpected fleet removals/drydocks, geopolitical disruption, delivery delays on new ships, or 2025 actual ALBD coming in below guidance # Gaps / unknowns - No explicit FY2026 ALBD numerical guidance published yet - Actual FY2025 final ALBD (vs. 96.5M guidance) not confirmed in research - Specific delivery timing of 2026 newbuilds uncertain - FY2026 Q1 report published but no ALBD figure extracted # Calibration anchors - **Kalshi current YES price: 81%** (primary anchor, rising) - FY2023→FY2024 growth: ~4.6%; FY2024→FY2025: ~0.7% (decelerating post-ramp) - Required 2025→2026 growth from confirmed 96.5M base: only **0.83%** — well within any plausible scenario absent major disruption - Code Monte Carlo (understated base): ~44% — should be revised significantly upward given true 96.5M base; revised estimate ~75–85% - Kalshi at 81% appears well-calibrated given the low bar needed and partial-year visibility

1. Both forecasters treat the 96.5M figure as a near-certain floor for the 2025 base, but the brief explicitly notes "Actual FY2025 final ALBD (vs. 96.5M guidance) not confirmed in research" — if FY2025 actual comes in at, say, 95.5M (within normal guidance variance), the required 2026 growth jumps to ~1.8%, materially changing the calculus neither forecaster quantifies. 2. Neither forecaster extracts any information from the already-published FY2026 Q1 report; the brief flags this as a key gap ("FY2026 Q1 report published but no ALBD figure extracted"), meaning partial-year data exists that could sharply update probability in either direction, yet both simply defer to the Kalshi price as if this data were unavailable. 3. Both forecasters apply only a marginal upward nudge (+2pp) from the Kalshi 81% anchor despite arguing the required growth rate is "only 0.83%" — if that argument is correct, the implied probability should be higher (85–90%+), suggesting an inconsistency between their stated logic and their final numbers. 4. The downside scenario receives cursory treatment: the brief notes a combined newbuild slate of ~21,200 lower berths expected across 2025–2026 with "specific delivery schedules not confirmed," yet neither forecaster attempts to quantify the probability of sufficient slippage or offsetting retirements to stay below the 97.3M threshold, leaving the 17% No case under-specified. 5. Both forecasters ignore the decelerating growth trend signal — FY2023→FY2024 grew ~4.6% but FY2024→FY2025 guidance implies only ~0.7% growth, a dramatic deceleration that, if the same pattern holds into 2026, is precisely the regime where even a 0.83% hurdle could be missed if any ships are retired or drydocked longer than planned.

83% (50% confidence)

Yes: 83% No: 17%

Anchoring on Kalshi 81% with slight upward adjustment. The 96.5M FY2025 guidance base requires only ~0.83% growth, easily covered by 2026 newbuilds, but the critique correctly notes uncertainty in actual FY2025 outcome and possible deceleration risk, which prevents pushing higher.

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