Reviewing The Arena Group (AREN) & The Competition

The Arena Group (NYSE:AREN – Get Rating) is one of 36 publicly-traded companies in the “Cable & other pay television services” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare The Arena Group to related businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, risk and valuation.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares The Arena Group and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
The Arena Group	$189.14 million	-$89.94 million	-3.38
The Arena Group Competitors	$11.52 billion	$2.61 billion	11.24

The Arena Group’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than The Arena Group. The Arena Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

51.3% of shares of all “Cable & other pay television services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 8.3% of The Arena Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.6% of shares of all “Cable & other pay television services” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares The Arena Group and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
The Arena Group	-40.70%	N/A	-43.99%
The Arena Group Competitors	38.45%	2.77%	4.18%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for The Arena Group and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
The Arena Group	0	0	2	0	3.00
The Arena Group Competitors	395	1862	2676	77	2.49

The Arena Group presently has a consensus price target of $19.50, indicating a potential upside of 95.00%. As a group, “Cable & other pay television services” companies have a potential upside of 57.20%. Given The Arena Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe The Arena Group is more favorable than its peers.

Risk & Volatility

The Arena Group has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Arena Group’s peers have a beta of 1.13, suggesting that their average share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

The Arena Group peers beat The Arena Group on 10 of the 13 factors compared.

The Arena Group Company Profile (Get Rating)

The Arena Group Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates digital media platform the United States and internationally. The company offers the Platform, a proprietary online publishing platform comprising publishing tools, video platforms, social distribution channels, newsletter technology, machine learning content recommendations, notifications, and other technology. The company was formerly known as TheMaven, Inc. and changed its name to The Arena Group Holdings, Inc. in February 2022. The Arena Group Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 1990 and is based in New York, New York.