Financial Survey: Duolingo (NASDAQ:DUOL) versus Global Arena (OTCMKTS:GAHC)

Global Arena (OTCMKTS:GAHC) and Duolingo (NASDAQ:DUOL) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Volatility and Risk

Global Arena has a beta of 1.78, meaning that its share price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Duolingo has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

91.6% of Duolingo shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.1% of Global Arena shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.3% of Duolingo shares 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.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Global Arena and Duolingo”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Global Arena	$830,000.00	0.44	-$1.19 million	N/A	N/A
Duolingo	$634.49 million	19.58	$16.07 million	$0.97	296.97

Duolingo has higher revenue and earnings than Global Arena.

Profitability

This table compares Global Arena and Duolingo’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Global Arena	-61.77%	N/A	-111.08%
Duolingo	10.44%	9.64%	6.57%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Global Arena and Duolingo, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Global Arena	0	0	0	0	N/A
Duolingo	0	4	7	1	2.75

Duolingo has a consensus price target of $277.22, suggesting a potential downside of 3.76%. Given Duolingo’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Duolingo is more favorable than Global Arena.

Summary

Duolingo beats Global Arena on 11 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Global Arena

Global Arena Holding Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides technology-enabled paper absentee/mail ballot and online election services in the United States. The company offers voter authentication and registration software, which authenticates and registers voting members in a data look-up system; and scanning and tabulation software, an advanced OMR/OCR/Barcode scanning and tabulation software, as well as an online voting platform. It also explores opportunities in the oil, gas, mineral, and energy business. The company provides its services to craft and trade organizations, labor unions, political parties, co-operatives and housing organizations, associations and professional societies, universities, and political organizations. The company was formerly known as Global Arena Holding Subsidiary Corp and changed its name to Global Arena Holding Inc. in May 2011. Global Arena Holding Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York.

About Duolingo

Duolingo, Inc. operates as a mobile learning platform in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company offers courses in 40 different languages, including Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese through its Duolingo app. It also provides a digital English language proficiency assessment exam. Duolingo, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.