$30 Billion in NFL Bets Will Run Through This AI Stock VIEW IN BROWSER BY JASON BODNER, EDITOR, QUANTUM EDGE PRO Football season starts tonight, with the Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles playing the Dallas Cowboys. Then Sao Paulo, Brazil will be the site of the Los Angeles Chargers playing Mr. Taylor Swift and the Kansas City Chiefs tomorrow. I’m in the minority when it comes to loving football – I’m more of a hockey guy, personally. But the data shows that football is far and away the most popular sport in America. A 2024 Gallup poll showed 41% of respondents selected football as their favorite sport to watch. And with sports betting legal in 38 states – soon to be 39 when Missouri joins on Dec. 1 – as well as Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, the American Gaming Association estimates sports fans will wager $30 billion this season. That’s a lot of skin in the game. And fans aren’t just betting on which team will win. As the sports betting industry has grown, “proposition,” or prop bets, have emerged. Which team will score first? Will a certain player score a touchdown? In big games like the Super Bowl, you can even bet on which team will win the coin toss, how long the National Anthem will be, or what color Gatorade will be poured on the winning coach. And now, due to a certain pop megastar’s recent engagement to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, even more eyes are on the sport. With America’s passion for football, betting now legal in many places, and the plethora of bets to make, you can see how tens of billions of dollars flow through the system. I built my Quantum Edge system to track money flows from the world’s largest investors and ride those waves to profits. So naturally, I wanted to find the best opportunities to ride the betting wave to profits. Today we’ll look at two household name betting stocks and one under-the-radar company that’s pulling all the strings behind them… | Recommended Link | | | | The appeals court ruling on Trump’s tariffs just spiked volatility… and for me, that’s a green light. My favorite trade delivered 18 wins in a row this year… with instant payouts up to $1,000, no stocks needed. Here’s exactly how it works… |  | | FanDuel Leads the Way FanDuel claims 41% of the U.S. sports betting market, which puts it in the top spot. The popular app is owned by the world’s largest online betting company, Flutter Entertainment (FLUT), whose shares have rallied 50% since the April low. 
Source: TradeSmith Finance FLUT’s Quantum Score of 79.0 is low for my liking. I’m not a big fan of the fundamental and technical ratings, either. They’re not horrible, but there are more promising stocks out there. 
Source: TradeSmith Finance The fundamentals are middling with a 75 rating, a solid C grade. Earnings and sales growth have improved and are expected to trend nicely higher, but longer-term data still weighs on the score. Company debt at 78.4% of equity is also higher than I like to see, and the profit margin is slim at 0.3%. The technicals have also weakened. They rated 90.9 earlier this week and dipped to 81.8. Helping the Technical Score are the stock’s proximity to three-month and 52-week highs. But Big Money’s recent behavior drags it down because the last buy signal was more than two months ago. 
Source: MoneyFlows.com On the plus side, I count 25 green bars showing institutions buying since FLUT debuted on the NYSE in January 2024. That’s promising, though not as large a data sample as with many other stocks. FLUT is up more than 15% so far this year, which beats the S&P 500’s 9.1% gain but isn’t a power surge. The data shows that higher prices are likely, but FLUT is not among the highest-rated stocks in my system and is outside of my preferred buy zone. DraftKings Is Close Behind Flutter and DraftKings (DKNG) have jockeyed for the top market share in the U.S. DraftKings currently sits second, but shares have outpaced FLUT with their 20% rise. 
Source: TradeSmith Finance That helps push DKNG’s Quantum Score to a solid – but still not elite – 84.3, driven mostly by strong technicals. 
Source: TradeSmith Finance Sales growth is decent, but the company is not yet consistently profitable. It earned 30 cents per share in the second quarter, and analysts expect a penny-per-share loss here in the third quarter. DKNG is expected to be profitable for the year with the Street forecasting 44 cents per share, up from a loss of $1.05 a year ago. That can be a good time to own a stock, but it can also be risky as any misstep or unexpected development can hit shares hard. The profit margin is still negative, and debt is also too high at 78.4% of equity, identical to FLUT. The technicals are solid with that 90.9 rating. Moving averages indicate an uptrend, and internal metrics show strength. Shares are near 12-week highs but below 52-week highs from mid-February. Big Money has nibbled at shares with five inflow signals since the April selloff and a few signals earlier in the year and late last year. That’s not bad, but it doesn’t yet have the clusters of buy signals that the stock we’ll talk about next does. 
Source: MoneyFlows.com DKNG is a decent stock. If future growth develops as expected, it could become a great stock. It’s just not there yet. The Power Behind Both (And Much More) You won’t see TV commercials for Sportradar (SRAD) the way you do with FanDuel and DraftKings, but if I were placing a “bet” on the winner, I’d go with it over the other two. Sportradar is the wizard behind the curtain pulling all the levers to make sure everything works. That makes Sportradar somewhat, well, under the radar. Sportradar has had exclusive rights to distribute official NFL data to sportsbooks since 2019. That includes real-time play by play, player-tracking data, live feeds, and more. Overall, the company uses data – and now AI – to help sportsbooks and sports teams with insights, simulations, and performance analytics. It also uses machine learning to set live odds dynamically during games. The AI ingests betting flows, player performance data, and historical stats to adjust odds second by second. This makes Sportradar valuable to sportsbooks because it reduces their risk. The company even uses AI to flag suspicious betting patterns that indicate potential fixing or fraud. This is a big deal for regulators and sports leagues, and it gives Sportradar a wide “moat.” Both FanDuel and DraftKings rely on Sportradar, as do many other betting platforms. And as do smart investors. Shares have soared nearly 80% in 2025 and 165% over the last 12 months. 
Source: TradeSmith Finance Add the strength of the business to go along with price momentum, and we get an outstanding Quantum Score of 95.5. And unlike FLUT and DKNG, the fundamentals and technicals are also elite. 
Source: TradeSmith Finance Earnings are expected to soar 345% this year to 48 cents per share on 24% revenue growth. That isn’t sustainable, but it can be the foundation for robust growth for years to come. Valuation is a little high with shares trading at 64 times this year’s expected earnings and 56 times next year’s forecast, but that’s to be expected with the stock’s surge and strong growth. I’m willing to pay up when the data aligns, as it does here, but SRAD could be an especially appealing buy in any September weakness. Big Money has been piling in over the past 12 months. You can see the 35 green bars on the chart below – each showing a day where an unusually big amount of money flowed into SRAD. 
Source: MoneyFlows.com You can also see how those signals came in bunches and powered shares higher. That’s a classic accumulation pattern – Big Money investors have been quietly buying up shares over time. We’ve gone along for the ride in Quantum Edge Pro, with shares up 68% since I recommended it in January. The data points to more gains in the future. You won’t find me betting on any NFL games or players. You won’t find me betting on any NHL games or players, either, even though I know a lot more about that sport. Betting is designed to make money for the house. Sportradar’s data helps make that possible. But I would “bet” on stocks like SRAD. That’s an investment, not a bet, because of those superior fundamentals, strong technicals, and tons of Big Money inflows. Honestly, that’s the whole purpose behind the system I took years to develop. You can learn more about the power of the Quantum Edge system here. Find the highest-quality stocks in which institutions are placing their own big bets and then follow the Big Money. That’s how to stack the odds in your favor. Talk soon, 
Jason Bodner
Editor, Quantum Edge Pro | 
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