Contrasting Sportradar Group (NASDAQ:SRAD) & Playtech (OTCMKTS:PYTCF)

Playtech (OTCMKTS:PYTCF) and Sportradar Group (NASDAQ:SRAD) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

29.1% of Playtech shares are held by institutional investors. 85.0% of Sportradar Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Playtech and Sportradar Group, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Playtech	1	1	2	0	2.25
Sportradar Group	1	8	9	2	2.60

Sportradar Group has a consensus target price of $20.31, indicating a potential upside of 56.97%. Given Sportradar Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Sportradar Group is more favorable than Playtech.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Playtech and Sportradar Group”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Playtech	N/A	N/A	N/A	$0.51	10.41
Sportradar Group	$1.46 billion	2.66	$113.50 million	$0.06	215.67

Sportradar Group has higher revenue and earnings than Playtech. Playtech 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 Playtech and Sportradar Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Playtech	N/A	N/A	N/A
Sportradar Group	1.23%	1.89%	0.65%

Summary

Sportradar Group beats Playtech on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Playtech

Playtech plc, a technology company, provides gambling software, services, content, and platform technologies worldwide. The company offers technologies across various product verticals, including live casino, sports, bingo, virtual sports, and poker. It also owns the intellectual property rights and licenses the software; provides digital marketing and advertising, consulting and online technical support, data mining processing, turnkey, live game, and video stream services; and operates betting shops. In addition, the company designs, develops, and sells software. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Douglas, the Isle of Man.

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.