FTRE vs SEATW Comparison

Fortrea Holdings is a late-stage contract research organization, or CRO, that provides comprehensive Phase I through IV clinical trial management, clinical pharmacology, and patient access solutions. The company works with emerging and large biopharma, medical device, and diagnostic companies to run their clinical trials as a functional-service provider, full-service provider, and offers hybrid trials. In 2023, Fortrea was formed as an independent, publicly traded company after Labcorp spun off its clinical development business, which it acquired via its purchase of Covance in 2015 for $6.1 billion. Fortrea has 19,000 staff members across 90 countries.

Vivid Seats Inc is an online ticket marketplace for connecting fans to live events and artists. It is the official ticketing partner of brands in the entertainment industry providing tickets for sports, concerts, theatres, and comedy events in the United States, Canada and Japan. It operates in two segments namely marketplace and resale. Marketplace segment, act as an intermediary between ticket buyers, sellers, and partners through which company earn revenue from processing ticket sales for live events and facilitating the booking of hotel rooms and packages on websites and mobile applications. Resale segment provides internal research and development support for Skybox and supplements ongoing efforts to deliver software and tools. Majority of revenue is from Marketplace segment.