Reviewing Treasure Global (NASDAQ:TGL) & Expedia Group (NASDAQ:EXPE)

Treasure Global (NASDAQ:TGL) and Expedia Group (NASDAQ:EXPE) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and profitability.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Treasure Global and Expedia Group, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Treasure Global	1	0	0	0	1.00
Expedia Group	0	22	13	1	2.42

Expedia Group has a consensus target price of $289.13, indicating a potential upside of 6.47%. Given Expedia Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Expedia Group is more favorable than Treasure Global.

Profitability

This table compares Treasure Global and Expedia Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Treasure Global	-1,064.59%	-36.50%	-31.66%
Expedia Group	9.66%	64.15%	6.25%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

90.8% of Expedia Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Treasure Global shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.1% of Expedia Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

Treasure Global has a beta of 2.97, indicating that its stock price is 197% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Expedia Group has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Treasure Global and Expedia Group”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Treasure Global	$2.33 million	3.14	-$23.38 million	($396.00)	-0.01
Expedia Group	$13.69 billion	2.43	$1.23 billion	$10.45	25.99

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

Summary

Expedia Group beats Treasure Global on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Treasure Global

Treasure Global Inc. offers e-commerce activities through its platform. Its platform provides consumers and merchants instant rebates and affiliate cashback programs, while providing a seamless e-payment solution with rebates in both e-commerce and physical retailers/merchant settings. The company offers ZCITY App, a payment gateway platform. Treasure Global Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is based in New York, New York.

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group, Inc. operates as an online travel company in the United States and internationally. The company operates through B2C, B2B, and trivago segments. Its B2C segment includes Brand Expedia, a full-service online travel brand offers various travel products and services; Hotels.com for lodging accommodations; Vrbo, an online marketplace for the alternative accommodations; Orbitz, Travelocity, Wotif Group, ebookers, CheapTickets, Hotwire.com and CarRentals.com. The company's B2B segment provides various travel and non-travel companies including airlines, offline travel agents, online retailers, corporate travel management, and financial institutions who leverage its travel technology and tap into its diverse supply to augment their offerings and market Expedia Group rates and availabilities to its travelers. Its trivago segment, a hotel metasearch website, which send referrals to online travel companies and travel service providers from hotel metasearch websites. In addition, the company provides brand advertising through online and offline channels, loyalty programs, mobile apps, and search engine marketing, as well as metasearch, social media, direct and personalized traveler communications on its websites, and through direct e-mail communication with its travelers. The company was formerly known as Expedia, Inc. and changed its name to Expedia Group, Inc. in March 2018. Expedia Group, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.