Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) and Dropbox Inc. (NASDAQ:DBX), are influenced by compare since they are both players in the Application Software. These factors are particularly influence the analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings and valuation of the two firms.
Earnings & Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.60 | 0.00 |
| Dropbox Inc. | 1.39B | 6.69 | 484.90M | -1.23 | 0.00 |
Table 1 shows the top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation for Gridsum Holding Inc. and Dropbox Inc.
Profitability
Table 2 shows us the return on assets, return on equity and net margins of both companies.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -57.2% | -24.6% |
| Dropbox Inc. | -34.88% | -78.8% | -30.5% |
Liquidity
Gridsum Holding Inc.’s Current Ratio and Quick Ratio are 2 and 2 respectively. The Current Ratio and Quick Ratio of its competitor Dropbox Inc. are 1.4 and 1.4 respectively. Gridsum Holding Inc. therefore has a better chance of paying off short and long-term obligations compared to Dropbox Inc.
Analyst Ratings
The Recommendations and Ratings for Gridsum Holding Inc. and Dropbox Inc. are featured in the next table.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Dropbox Inc. | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3.00 |
Competitively the average target price of Dropbox Inc. is $33, which is potential 45.76% upside.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
Roughly 40.9% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares are owned by institutional investors while 74.9% of Dropbox Inc. are owned by institutional investors. Gridsum Holding Inc.’s share owned by insiders are 5.3%. Insiders Competitively, owned 10.7% of Dropbox Inc. shares.
Performance
Here are the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.
| Performance (W) | Performance (M) | Performance (Q) | Performance (HY) | Performance (Y) | Performance (YTD) | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 1.29% | 79.09% | -6.86% | -33.22% | -61.6% | 76.68% |
| Dropbox Inc. | 1.14% | -3.44% | -1.36% | -11.66% | 0% | 16.79% |
For the past year Gridsum Holding Inc. was more bullish than Dropbox Inc.
Summary
Gridsum Holding Inc. beats Dropbox Inc. on 6 of the 10 factors.
Gridsum Holding Inc. provides data analysis software for multinational and domestic enterprises, and government agencies in China. Its proprietary distributed data architecture allows its customers to collect and analyze vast amounts of information; and Gridsum Big Data platform performs multi-dimensional correlation analysis and analyzes complex real-time events. The company offers Web Dissector to analyze customer Websites by monitoring and analyzing key performance indicators; Mobile Dissector to understand mobile app user activity; SEM Dissector for search engine marketing; SEO Dissector, a search engine optimization tool; Ad Dissector, an advertisement performance monitoring and optimization product; Contribution Dissector to evaluate the performance of advertising campaigns; Audience Dissector, an audience analysis product; Recommendation Engine, a data driven content recommendation solution. It also provides Government Web Dissector, a digital intelligence solution; Government Website Group Integrated Management Platform, an integrated management platform; Streaming Dissector, a real-time viewership analysis and operational efficiency monitor for digital online video; Video Dissector, an online video content analytics tool; TV Dissector, an analytics tool; Rating Plus, a television viewing data analytics tool; and Media Dissector, a mass, social, and user-generated content media monitoring and analytics tool. In addition, the company offers Law Dissector, a search and statistical analysis tool; Smart Push, a legal research tool; Information Dissector, an insightful analytical system; Social Listening, a could-based social listening solution; Gridsum Dashboard, a data visualization tool; and Gridsum Report Center, an automated report generation and distribution tool. Further, it develops new media analytics and information discovery solutions to address a range of customer needs. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.
Dropbox Inc. provides a collaboration platform worldwide. Its platform allows individuals, teams, and organizations to create, access, and share content online. The company was formerly known as Evenflow, Inc. and changed its name to Dropbox, Inc. in October 2009. Dropbox Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.