American Software Inc. (AMSWA) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) Comparing side by side

Both American Software Inc. (NASDAQ:AMSWA) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) compete on a level playing field in the Application Software industry. We will evaluate their performance with regards to profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.

Valuation & Earnings

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
American Software Inc.	111.80M	3.61	6.20M	0.19	60.47
Gridsum Holding Inc.	N/A	0.00	N/A	-1.60	0.00

Demonstrates American Software Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc. earnings per share (EPS), gross revenue and valuation.

Profitability

Table 2 provides the return on equity, net margins and return on assets of the two firms.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
American Software Inc.	5.55%	9.4%	6.7%
Gridsum Holding Inc.	0.00%	-57.2%	-24.6%

Liquidity

American Software Inc.’s Current Ratio is 2.8 while its Quick Ratio is 2.8. On the competitive side is, Gridsum Holding Inc. which has a 2 Current Ratio and a 2 Quick Ratio. American Software Inc. is better positioned to pay off short and long-term obligations compared to Gridsum Holding Inc.

Dividends

American Software Inc. shareholders receive an annual dividend of $0.44 per share which is subject to 3.38% dividend yield. No dividend is paid out by Gridsum Holding Inc.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

Institutional investors held 0% of American Software Inc. shares and 40.9% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares. Insiders held 0.5% of American Software Inc. shares. Competitively, Gridsum Holding Inc. has 5.3% of it’s share held 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)
American Software Inc.	0.17%	5.52%	7.66%	-34.7%	-6.64%	11.67%
Gridsum Holding Inc.	1.29%	79.09%	-6.86%	-33.22%	-61.6%	76.68%

For the past year American Software Inc. has weaker performance than Gridsum Holding Inc.

Summary

American Software Inc. beats Gridsum Holding Inc. on 10 of the 11 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.