Both Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) and Castlight Health Inc. (NYSE:CSLT) are each other’s competitor in the Application Software industry. Thus the contrast of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.20 | 0.00 |
| Castlight Health Inc. | 150.91M | 2.43 | 46.49M | -0.73 | 0.00 |
Table 1 showcases the gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation of Gridsum Holding Inc. and Castlight Health Inc.
Profitability
Table 2 demonstrates the net margins, return on assets and return on equity of Gridsum Holding Inc. and Castlight Health Inc.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -19.7% | -11.2% |
| Castlight Health Inc. | -30.81% | -22.1% | -16.6% |
Liquidity
2 and 2 are the respective Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of Gridsum Holding Inc. Its rival Castlight Health Inc.’s Current and Quick Ratios are 1.9 and 1.9 respectively. Gridsum Holding Inc. has a better chance of clearing its pay short and long-term debts than Castlight Health Inc.
Analyst Ratings
The following table given below contains the ratings and recommendations for Gridsum Holding Inc. and Castlight Health Inc.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Castlight Health Inc. | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2.50 |
Competitively Castlight Health Inc. has a consensus price target of $5.4, with potential upside of 106.11%.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
Roughly 37.7% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares are owned by institutional investors while 72.6% of Castlight Health Inc. are owned by institutional investors. Insiders owned 5.3% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares. Competitively, Castlight Health Inc. has 1.8% of it’s share owned by insiders.
Performance
Here are the Week, Month, Quarter, Half Year, Year and YTD Performance of both pretenders.
| Performance (W) | Performance (M) | Performance (Q) | Performance (HY) | Performance (Y) | Performance (YTD) | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | -9.6% | -27.31% | -32.75% | -38.34% | -55.84% | -57.81% |
| Castlight Health Inc. | -6.51% | -5.43% | -15.86% | -34.93% | -36.62% | -34.93% |
For the past year Gridsum Holding Inc. was more bearish than Castlight Health Inc.
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.
Castlight Health, Inc. operates a health benefits platform in the United States. The companyÂ’s platform engages employees to make better health decisions and enables employers to communicate and measure their benefit programs. Its platform also provides real-time insight into employee engagement with benefits and programs enabling employers to monitor and adjust their strategies. The company also offers communication and engagement, implementation, and customer support services. It serves customers in a range of industries, including education, manufacturing, retail, technology, and government. The company was formerly known as Ventana Health Services and changed its name to Castlight Health, Inc. in April 2010. Castlight Health, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.