Global-E Online (NASDAQ:GLBE – Get Free Report) and ON24 (NYSE:ONTF – Get Free Report) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Global-E Online and ON24″s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Global-E Online | $632.89 million | 9.85 | -$133.80 million | ($0.74) | -51.28 |
| ON24 | $163.71 million | 1.58 | -$51.79 million | ($1.03) | -6.05 |
ON24 has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Global-E Online. Global-E Online is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ON24, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Global-E Online | -17.33% | -16.41% | -12.78% |
| ON24 | -28.14% | -21.81% | -14.31% |
Volatility and Risk
Global-E Online has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ON24 has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Global-E Online and ON24, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Global-E Online | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 2.91 |
| ON24 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2.00 |
Global-E Online presently has a consensus target price of $43.09, suggesting a potential upside of 13.55%. ON24 has a consensus target price of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 28.41%. Given ON24’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ON24 is more favorable than Global-E Online.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
94.6% of Global-E Online shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.9% of ON24 shares are held by institutional investors. 11.6% of Global-E Online shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.3% of ON24 shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Global-E Online beats ON24 on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Global-E Online
Global-E Online Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides a platform to enable and accelerate direct-to-consumer cross-border e-commerce in Israel, the United Kingdom, the United States, and internationally. Its platform enables international shoppers to buy online and merchants to sell from, and to, worldwide. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel.
About ON24
ON24, Inc. provides a cloud-based intelligent engagement platform that enables businesses to convert customer engagement into revenue through interactive webinar, virtual event, and multimedia content experiences worldwide. The company provides ON24 Elite, for live and interactive webinar experience; ON24 Breakouts, for live breakout room experience that facilitates networking, collaboration, and interactivity between users; ON24 Forums, for live and interactive experience, which facilitates video-to-video interaction between presenters and audiences; ON24 Go Live, for live and interactive video event experience that enables presenters and attendees to engage face-to-face in real-time; and ON24 Virtual Confrence, for live and large scale managed virtual event experience. It also offers ON24 Engagement Hub, for always-on multimedia content experience; ON24 Target, for personalized and curated landing page experience; ON24 Intelligence, for analytics backbone that captures first-person data to power the insights, benchmarking, reporting, and artificial intelligence and machine learning engine; ON24 AI-powered ACE, for enabling hyper-personalization at scale across ON24 experiences; ON24 Connect, for ecosystem of third-party application integrations; and ON24 Services and Platform Support, which provides a portfolio of professional services that provide consulting and support for product and platform adoption. In addition, the company offers consulting services, such as experience management, monitoring and production, implementation, and other support services. It sells its products through direct sales. The company serves technology, financial services, healthcare, industrial and manufacturing, professional services, and business-to-business information service companies. The company was formerly known as NewsDirect, Inc. and changed its name to ON24, Inc. in December 1998. ON24, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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