Arena Group Holdings, Inc. (AREN)
As-reported financials and SEC filings for Arena Group Holdings, Inc. The latest annual period is FY2025. The latest reported quarter is Q2 FY2026. Financial statements come straight from the company’s EDGAR filings; valuation figures such as P/E and market cap use market data.
About Arena Group Holdings, Inc.
Arena Group Holdings, Inc. is a digital media company that builds, acquires, and scales digital content brands across sports and leisure, lifestyle, and finance verticals. It operates well-known brands such as TheStreet, Parade, Men’s Journal, and Athlon Sports, delivering content to millions of users monthly. The company also provides a proprietary publishing platform and monetization tools to independent publisher partners and content creators.
Snapshot
Fundamentals are from SEC filings for FY2025, the latest annual period (ended December 31, 2025). P/E and market cap are derived from stored market prices, last retrieved on a rolling basis and typically within the past week.
What changed at Arena Group Holdings
- Revenue grew 7.1% to $135M in FY2025, after a 12.3% decline the year before.
- Operating margin turned positive at 30.3% in FY2025, from a 44.6% operating loss in FY2021.
- Most recent quarter Q2 FY2026: revenue $22M, down 50.7% from Q2 FY2025.
- Free cash flow was $39M in FY2025, 29.1% of revenue.
- Net income turned positive at $125M in FY2025, from a $101M loss in FY2024.
Computed from the as-reported figures in the statements below. A change we cannot state from filed figures is left out rather than estimated.
Peer comparison
Where Arena Group Holdings’s fundamentals sit among the 216 Communication Services companies. Each figure is ranked only against peers that report it, from lowest (left) to highest (right).
Arena Group Holdings’s net margin of 92.6% is the highest of the 191 Communication Services companies reporting it. Arena Group Holdings’s operating margin of 30.3% ranks in the 99th percentile of the 185 Communication Services companies reporting it. Arena Group Holdings’s FCF margin of 29.1% ranks in the 96th percentile of the 164 Communication Services companies reporting it.
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Percentiles describe where a figure sits among sector peers reporting it (100th = highest). They are position within a peer group, not a rating, and not investment advice. Short interest ranking uses days to cover from FINRA Consolidated Short Interest data; FINRA is the owner and source of that data, included at no additional charge.
Institutional ownership
Held by 2 quant / multi-strat books among the superinvestors we track; no conviction manager currently reports a position.
| Investor | As of | Position value | Shares | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millennium Managementquant | Q2 2026 | $146,292 | 176.3K | New |
| AQR Capital Managementquant | Q2 2026 | $16,074 | 19.4K | Reduced |
No longer held by: Renaissance Technologies (as of Q2 2026)
From quarterly Form 13F filings, which can be up to 45 days delayed. Long US-listed positions only: excludes short positions, options, cash, bonds, and non-US holdings, so this is not a manager’s complete portfolio. Counts are of the investors we track, not all institutions. Not investment advice.
Short interest
Total shares sold short as of each twice-monthly FINRA settlement. Rising short interest means more investors are positioned against the stock; days to cover estimates how many trading days of average volume that position represents.
| Settlement | Shares short | Change | Days to cover |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-14 | 402.1K | -12.0% | 1.86 |
| 2026-07-31 | 457.1K | +4.6% | 8.51 |
| 2026-07-15 | 436.9K | -18.2% | 5.13 |
| 2026-06-30 | 534.4K | -27.3% | 2.14 |
| 2026-06-15 | 734.8K | -1.4% | 5.95 |
| 2026-05-29 | 745.5K | +12.0% | 5.92 |
| 2026-05-15 | 665.6K | +4.6% | 6.68 |
| 2026-04-30 | 636.2K | -6.4% | 7.70 |
Source: FINRA Consolidated Short Interest. FINRA is the owner and source of the FINRA-supplied data, which is included at no additional charge for your own personal or professional use; republishing or redistributing it is not permitted. Settlement dates are shown; FINRA publishes each settlement about nine business days later, so the latest figure can be two to four weeks old. Not presented as a percentage of float. No FINRA endorsement of this product is implied. Not investment advice.
Income statement (as reported)
| FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $134.8M | $125.9M | $143.6M | $220.9M | $189.1M |
| Gross profit | $68.3M | $55.7M | $55.3M | $88.0M | $78.6M |
| Operating income | $40.8M | $7.9M | $-17.5M | $-55.9M | $-84.3M |
| Net income | $124.9M | $-100.7M | $-55.6M | $-70.9M | $-89.9M |
| Diluted EPS | $2.62 | $-2.85 | $-2.49 | $-4.02 | — |
Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (hover to see the figure as filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.
Balance sheet (as reported)
| FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash and equivalents | $10.3M | $4.4M | $9.3M | $13.9M | $9.3M |
| Current assets | $35.6M | $40.2M | $90.4M | $78.7M | $77.7M |
| Total assets | $112.6M | $116.4M | $188.9M | $203.7M | $174.0M |
| Current liabilities | $17.0M | $122.3M | $236.0M | $216.4M | $116.4M |
| Long-term debt | $97.6M | $110.4M | $102.3M | $65.7M | $64.4M |
| Total liabilities | $117.4M | $246.5M | $247.7M | $242.7M | $211.8M |
| Total equity | $-4.8M | $-130.3M | $-59.0M | $-52.1M | $-51.7M |
Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (hover to see the figure as filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.
Cash flow (as reported)
| FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | $39.2M | $-16.1M | $-24.8M | $-11.3M | $-14.7M |
| Capital expenditure | $0 | $54,000 | — | $530,000 | $377,000 |
| Free cash flow | $39.2M | $-16.1M | — | $-11.8M | $-15.1M |
Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (hover to see the figure as filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.
Quarterly trend (as reported)
| Quarter | Revenue | Revenue YoY | Net income | Diluted EPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q2 FY2026 | $22.2M | -50.7% | $-176,000 | $0.00 |
| Q1 FY2026 | $20.4M | -35.9% | $-2.7M | $-0.06 |
| Q4 FY2025 | $28.2M | -22.0% | $5.3M | $0.11 |
| Q3 FY2025 | $29.8M | -11.3% | $6.9M | $0.14 |
| Q2 FY2025 | $45.0M | 65.6% | $108.6M | $2.28 |
| Q1 FY2025 | $31.8M | 9.9% | $4.0M | $0.08 |
| Q4 FY2024 | $36.2M | -17.9% | $6.9M | $0.14 |
| Q3 FY2024 | $33.6M | -9.3% | $4.0M | $0.11 |
Latest 8 reported quarters, from company XBRL filings on SEC EDGAR.
Company facts
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