Castlight Health Inc. (CSLT)’s Financial Results Comparing With Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM)

Castlight Health Inc. (NYSE:CSLT) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM), both competing one another are Application Software companies. We will contrast their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and valuation.

Earnings & Valuation

We can see in table 1 the earnings per share, gross revenue and valuation of Castlight Health Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.

Profitability

Table 2 represents Castlight Health Inc. (NYSE:CSLT) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM)’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

Liquidity

Castlight Health Inc.’s Current Ratio is 1.9 while its Quick Ratio is 1.9. On the competitive side is, Gridsum Holding Inc. which has a 2 Current Ratio and a 2 Quick Ratio. Gridsum Holding Inc. is better positioned to pay off short and long-term obligations compared to Castlight Health Inc.

Analyst Recommendations

Castlight Health Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc. Recommendations and Ratings are available in the next table.

Castlight Health Inc.’s upside potential currently stands at 34.73% and an $4.5 average target price.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

Institutional investors held 76.1% of Castlight Health Inc. shares and 40.9% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares. Insiders held 1.3% of Castlight Health Inc. shares. Comparatively, Gridsum Holding Inc. has 5.3% of it’s share held by insiders.

Performance

In this table we show the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

For the past year Castlight Health Inc. was more bullish than Gridsum Holding Inc.

Summary

Castlight Health Inc. beats on 7 of the 10 factors Gridsum Holding Inc.

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.

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.