Contrasting Sportradar Group (NASDAQ:SRAD) & NextTrip (NASDAQ:NTRP)

NextTrip (NASDAQ:NTRP) and Sportradar Group (NASDAQ:SRAD) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares NextTrip and Sportradar Group”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
NextTrip	$3.72 million	7.87	-$15.91 million	($1.41)	-1.38
Sportradar Group	$1.46 billion	2.79	$113.50 million	$0.06	226.67

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

Risk and Volatility

NextTrip has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its stock price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sportradar Group has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

3.8% of NextTrip shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.0% of NextTrip shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NextTrip	-289.92%	-246.48%	-105.09%
Sportradar Group	1.23%	1.89%	0.65%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for NextTrip and Sportradar Group, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NextTrip	1	1	1	0	2.00
Sportradar Group	1	8	9	2	2.60

NextTrip currently has a consensus price target of $7.75, indicating a potential upside of 299.48%. Sportradar Group has a consensus price target of $19.19, indicating a potential upside of 41.08%. Given NextTrip’s higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe NextTrip is more favorable than Sportradar Group.

Summary

Sportradar Group beats NextTrip on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About NextTrip

NextTrip, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of travel technology solutions in the United States. The company offers NXT2.0, a booking engine technology platform, which provides travel distributors access to an inventory. It is also involved in the provision of online leisure travel agency services for booking hotels, flights, and curated vacations. The company was formerly known as Sigma Additive Solutions, Inc. and changed its name to NextTrip, Inc. in March 2024. NextTrip, Inc. is based in Sunrise, Florida.

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.