Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE:RCL) & Sportradar Group (NASDAQ:SRAD) Head to Head Survey

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

Risk and Volatility

Royal Caribbean Cruises has a beta of 1.82, suggesting that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sportradar Group has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Royal Caribbean Cruises and Sportradar Group, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Royal Caribbean Cruises	0	8	19	1	2.75
Sportradar Group	0	9	9	2	2.65

Royal Caribbean Cruises currently has a consensus target price of $350.88, indicating a potential upside of 26.60%. Sportradar Group has a consensus target price of $19.19, indicating a potential upside of 61.10%. Given Sportradar Group’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sportradar Group is more favorable than Royal Caribbean Cruises.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Royal Caribbean Cruises and Sportradar Group”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Royal Caribbean Cruises	$17.93 billion	4.13	$4.27 billion	$16.18	17.13
Sportradar Group	$1.39 billion	2.57	$113.50 million	$0.06	198.50

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

Institutional & Insider Ownership

87.5% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.4% of Royal Caribbean Cruises shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 85.0% of Sportradar Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Royal Caribbean Cruises	23.54%	43.33%	10.56%
Sportradar Group	1.23%	1.89%	0.65%

Summary

Royal Caribbean Cruises beats Sportradar Group on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Royal Caribbean Cruises

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. operates as a cruise company worldwide. The company operates cruises under the Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea Cruises brands, which comprise a range of itineraries. As of February 21, 2024, it operated 65 ships. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Miami, 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.