Comparing Gridsum (GSUM) & Cogent Communications (NASDAQ:CCOI)

Gridsum (NASDAQ:GSUM) and Cogent Communications (NASDAQ:CCOI) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.

Volatility and Risk

Gridsum has a beta of 3.66, suggesting that its share price is 266% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cogent Communications has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

Cogent Communications pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Gridsum does not pay a dividend. Cogent Communications pays out 368.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cogent Communications has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Gridsum and Cogent Communications, as provided by MarketBeat.

Cogent Communications has a consensus price target of $50.00, suggesting a potential downside of 12.54%. Given Cogent Communications’ higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Cogent Communications is more favorable than Gridsum.

Profitability

This table compares Gridsum and Cogent Communications’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Gridsum and Cogent Communications’ gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

Cogent Communications has higher revenue and earnings than Gridsum.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

33.3% of Gridsum shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.0% of Cogent Communications shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.2% of Cogent Communications shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Cogent Communications beats Gridsum on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

Gridsum Company Profile

Gridsum Holding Inc. provides data analysis software for enterprises and government agencies in China. Its proprietary distributed data architecture allows its customers to collect and analyze information; and Gridsum Big Data platform and Gridsum Prophet 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 track and analyze user behavior from original access to ultimate conversion; Audience Dissector, an audience analysis product; and 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 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; voice recognition and transcription system; Information Dissector, an insightful analytical system; Social Listening, a cloud-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 customer needs. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

Cogent Communications Company Profile

Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides high-speed Internet access, private network, and data center colocation space services primarily to small and medium-sized businesses, communications service providers, and other bandwidth-intensive organizations in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Brazil. The company offers on-net Internet access and private network services to law firms, financial services firms, advertising and marketing firms, other professional services businesses, other Internet service providers, telephone companies, cable television companies, Web hosting companies, content delivery network companies, and commercial content and application service providers. It also provides on-net services in carrier-neutral data centers, Cogent controlled data centers, and single-tenant office buildings. In addition, the company offers off-net services to businesses that are connected to its network primarily by means of ‘last mile’ access service lines obtained from other carriers primarily in the form of metropolitan Ethernet circuits. Further, it provides Internet connectivity to customers that are not located in buildings directly connected to its network, as well as offers voice services. The company operates 52 data centers. Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Washington, the District of Columbia.

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