Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) is a company in the Application Software industry and that’s how we compare it to its peers. The comparing will be based on the risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and valuation, institutional ownership.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
Gridsum Holding Inc. has 37.7% of its shares held by institutional investors & an average of 58.59% institutional ownership for its rivals. 5.3% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.68% of all Application Software companies shares are held by company insiders.
Profitability
On first table we have Gridsum Holding Inc. and its peers’ return on assets, net margins and return on equity.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -19.70% | -11.20% |
| Industry Average | 4.71% | 49.50% | 10.20% |
Valuation and Earnings
The following data compares Gridsum Holding Inc. and its peers’ .
| Net Income | Gross Revenue | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | N/A | 0.00 |
| Industry Average | 41.49M | 880.39M | 161.84 |
Analyst Recommendations
Table 3 provides breakdown of recent ratings for Gridsum Holding Inc. and its peers.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Industry Average | 1.08 | 2.53 | 3.21 | 2.63 |
The rivals have a potential upside of 74.67%.
Performance
In this table we provide the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of Gridsum Holding Inc. and its peers.
| 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% |
| Industry Average | 4.98% | 9.32% | 17.30% | 22.53% | 49.23% | 51.89% |
For the past year Gridsum Holding Inc. had bearish trend while Gridsum Holding Inc.’s rivals had bullish trend.
Liquidity
The Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of Gridsum Holding Inc. are 2 and 2. Competitively, Gridsum Holding Inc.’s rivals have 2.45 and 2.41 for Current and Quick Ratio. Gridsum Holding Inc.’s competitors have better ability to pay short and long-term obligations than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Dividends
Gridsum Holding Inc. does not pay a dividend.
Summary
Gridsum Holding Inc.’s competitors show that they’re better in 4 of the 4 factors compared to the company itself.
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.