Both Top Image Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ:TISA) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) are Application Software companies, competing one another. We will contrast their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Top Image Systems Ltd. | 29.19M | 0.53 | 5.31M | -0.33 | 0.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.60 | 0.00 |
We can see in table 1 the earnings per share, top-line revenue and valuation of Top Image Systems Ltd. and Gridsum Holding Inc.
Profitability
Table 2 represents Top Image Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ:TISA) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM)’s return on assets, net margins and return on equity.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Top Image Systems Ltd. | -18.19% | -43.9% | -18.9% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -57.2% | -24.6% |
Liquidity
The current Quick Ratio of Top Image Systems Ltd. is 0.7 while its Current Ratio is 0.7. Meanwhile, Gridsum Holding Inc. has a Current Ratio of 2 while its Quick Ratio is 2. Gridsum Holding Inc. is better positioned to pay off its short-term and long-term debts than Top Image Systems Ltd.
Analyst Recommendations
The next table highlights the given recommendations and ratings for Top Image Systems Ltd. and Gridsum Holding Inc.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Top Image Systems Ltd. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
The consensus target price of Top Image Systems Ltd. is $0.86, with potential upside of 2.77%.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
Institutional investors owned 22% of Top Image Systems Ltd. shares and 40.9% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares. Top Image Systems Ltd.’s share owned by insiders are 25.1%. Competitively, Gridsum Holding Inc. has 5.3% of it’s share owned by insiders.
Performance
In this table we provide 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) | |
| Top Image Systems Ltd. | -0.66% | 57.43% | 27.62% | -18.68% | -22.48% | 65.4% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 1.29% | 79.09% | -6.86% | -33.22% | -61.6% | 76.68% |
For the past year Top Image Systems Ltd. has weaker performance than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Summary
Top Image Systems Ltd. beats Gridsum Holding 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.