Alteryx Inc. (NYSE:AYX) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM), both competing one another are Application Software companies. We will compare their profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation, institutional ownership.
Earnings & Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Alteryx Inc. | 182.38M | 23.63 | 12.26M | -0.16 | 0.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.20 | 0.00 |
In table 1 we can see Alteryx Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Profitability
Table 2 has Alteryx Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.’s return on assets, return on equity and net margins.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Alteryx Inc. | -6.72% | -7.1% | -3% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -19.7% | -11.2% |
Liquidity
2.6 and 2.6 are the respective Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of Alteryx Inc. Its rival Gridsum Holding Inc.’s Current and Quick Ratios are 2 and 2 respectively. Alteryx Inc. has a better chance of clearing its pay short and long-term debts than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
Alteryx Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc. has shares owned by institutional investors as follows: 89.6% and 37.7%. About 0.6% of Alteryx Inc.’s share are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% are Gridsum Holding Inc.’s share owned by insiders.
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) | |
| Alteryx Inc. | 2.06% | 4.74% | 0.15% | 55.77% | 128.92% | 143.05% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | -9.6% | -27.31% | -32.75% | -38.34% | -55.84% | -57.81% |
For the past year Alteryx Inc. had bullish trend while Gridsum Holding Inc. had bearish trend.
Summary
On 7 of the 9 factors Alteryx Inc. beats Gridsum Holding Inc.
Alteryx, Inc. provides self-service data analytics software platform that enables organizations to enhance business outcomes and the productivity of their business analysts. It offers Alteryx Designer for data preparation, blending, and analytics that could be deployable in the cloud and on premise; Alteryx Server, a secure and scalable product for sharing and running analytic applications in a Web-based environment; and Alteryx Analytics Gallery, a cloud-based collaboration offering that allows users to share workflows in a centralized repository. The company serves clients in business and financial services, consumer goods, healthcare, retail, technology, and travel and hospitality industries in approximately 50 countries. Alteryx, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.
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.
