Sportradar Group (NASDAQ:SRAD) vs. Global Business Travel Group (NYSE:GBTG) Head-To-Head Comparison

Sportradar Group (NASDAQ:SRAD) and Global Business Travel Group (NYSE:GBTG) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Sportradar Group and Global Business Travel Group, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Sportradar Group	1	8	9	2	2.60
Global Business Travel Group	0	6	2	0	2.25

Sportradar Group currently has a consensus price target of $19.19, suggesting a potential upside of 65.98%. Global Business Travel Group has a consensus price target of $8.90, suggesting a potential downside of 6.32%. Given Sportradar Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Sportradar Group is more favorable than Global Business Travel Group.

Risk and Volatility

Sportradar Group has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Global Business Travel Group has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

82.5% of Global Business Travel Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 85.0% of Sportradar Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Global Business Travel Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Sportradar Group and Global Business Travel Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Sportradar Group	1.23%	1.89%	0.65%
Global Business Travel Group	2.77%	2.47%	0.80%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Sportradar Group and Global Business Travel Group”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Sportradar Group	$1.46 billion	2.37	$113.50 million	$0.06	192.67
Global Business Travel Group	$3.18 billion	1.56	$109.00 million	$0.17	55.88

Sportradar Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Global Business Travel Group. Global Business Travel Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sportradar Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Sportradar Group beats Global Business Travel Group on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Sportradar Group

Sportradar Group AG, together with its subsidiaries, provides sports data services for the sports betting and media industries in the United Kingdom, the United States, Malta, Switzerland, and internationally. Its sports data services to the bookmaking under the Betradar brand name, and to the international media industry under the Sportradar Media Services brand name. The company offers mission-critical software, data, and content to sports leagues and federations, betting operators, and media companies. It also provides sports entertainment, gaming, and sports solutions, as well as live streaming solution for online, mobile, and retail sports betting. In addition, its software solutions address the entire sports betting value chain from traffic generation and advertising technology to the collection, processing, and extrapolation of data and odds, as well as to visualization solutions, risk management, and platform services. Sportradar Group AG was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland.

About Global Business Travel Group

Global Business Travel Group, Inc. provides business-to-business (B2B) travel platform in the United States and internationally. The company's platform offers a suite of technology-enabled solutions to business travelers and clients; travel content suppliers, such as airlines, hotels, ground transportation, and aggregators; and third-party travel agencies. It also provides consulting, meetings and events planning, and outsourced services. Global Business Travel Group, Inc. is based in New York, New York.