Financial Survey: Global Arena (OTCMKTS:GAHC) and WisdomTree (NYSE:WT)

WisdomTree (NYSE:WT) and Global Arena (OTCMKTS:GAHC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for WisdomTree and Global Arena, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
WisdomTree	0	3	4	0	2.57
Global Arena	0	0	0	0	0.00

WisdomTree currently has a consensus price target of $17.65, indicating a potential upside of 7.85%. Given WisdomTree’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe WisdomTree is more favorable than Global Arena.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares WisdomTree and Global Arena”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
WisdomTree	$493.75 million	4.66	$109.13 million	$0.75	21.82
Global Arena	$1.27 million	0.00	-$1.01 million	N/A	N/A

WisdomTree has higher revenue and earnings than Global Arena.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
WisdomTree	22.10%	30.24%	9.87%
Global Arena	N/A	N/A	N/A

Risk & Volatility

WisdomTree has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Global Arena has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

78.6% of WisdomTree shares are held by institutional investors. 9.3% of WisdomTree shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of Global Arena shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

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

About WisdomTree

WisdomTree, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an exchange-traded funds (ETFs) sponsor and asset manager. It offers ETFs in equities, currency, fixed income, and alternatives asset classes. The company also licenses its indexes to third parties for proprietary products, as well as offers a platform to promote the use of WisdomTree ETFs in 401(k) plans. It develops index using its fundamentally weighted index methodology. In addition, the company provides investment advisory services. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in New York, New York.

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.