Critical Survey: Global Business Travel Group (NYSE:GBTG) versus Sportradar Group (NASDAQ:SRAD)

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

Volatility and Risk

Global Business Travel Group has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sportradar Group has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Global Business Travel Group	$3.18 billion	1.56	$109.00 million	$0.17	55.88
Sportradar Group	$1.46 billion	2.41	$113.50 million	$0.06	196.00

Sportradar Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.

Profitability

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

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

Analyst Recommendations

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

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

Global Business Travel Group presently has a consensus price target of $8.90, suggesting a potential downside of 6.32%. Sportradar Group has a consensus price target of $19.19, suggesting a potential upside of 63.16%. Given Sportradar Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Sportradar Group is more favorable than Global Business Travel Group.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

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

Summary

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

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.

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.