Cheetah Mobile Inc. (NYSE:CMCM) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) are two firms in the Application Software that compete against each other. Below is a comparison of their institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Valuation & Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Cheetah Mobile Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | 1.55 | 4.78 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.60 | 0.00 |
Table 1 shows the top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation for Cheetah Mobile Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.
Profitability
Table 2 hightlights the return on assets, net margins and return on equity of the two companies.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Cheetah Mobile Inc. | 0.00% | 32.7% | 20.2% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -57.2% | -24.6% |
Liquidity
Cheetah Mobile Inc. has a Current Ratio of 3 and a Quick Ratio of 3. Competitively, Gridsum Holding Inc.’s Current Ratio is 2 and has 2 Quick Ratio. Cheetah Mobile Inc.’s better ability to pay short and long-term obligations than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Analyst Ratings
In next table is shown Cheetah Mobile Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.’s ratings and recommendations.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Cheetah Mobile Inc. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Cheetah Mobile Inc. has an average target price of $5.8, and a -11.85% downside potential.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
The shares of both Cheetah Mobile Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc. are owned by institutional investors at 21.6% and 40.9% respectively. 16.14% are Cheetah Mobile Inc.’s share held by insiders. Comparatively, 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) | |
| Cheetah Mobile Inc. | -1.46% | 9.75% | 11.9% | -28.56% | -48.11% | 21.6% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 1.29% | 79.09% | -6.86% | -33.22% | -61.6% | 76.68% |
For the past year Cheetah Mobile Inc. was less bullish than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Summary
Cheetah Mobile Inc. beats on 6 of the 7 factors Gridsum Holding Inc.
Cheetah Mobile Inc. operates a platform that offers mobile and personal computer (PC) applications for its users and global content promotional channels. The companyÂ’s suite of utility applications optimizes mobile and PC Internet system performance and provides real time protection against known and unknown security threats. Its mobile and PC applications for users include Clean Master, a junk file cleaning, memory boosting, and privacy protection tool for mobile devices; CM Security, an anti-virus and security application for mobile devices; Battery Doctor, a power optimization tool for mobile devices; Cheetah Browser, a safe Web browser for PCs and mobile devices; CM Browser, a mobile browser; CM Launcher, a secure launcher that offers acceleration, secure protection, and stylish wallpapers, as well as automatically organizes mobile applications based on personal behavior; Photo Grid, a photo collage application that allows users to create professional looking collages of photos through an intuitive interface for mobile devices; CM Locker, a lightweight lock screen; and Duba Anti-virus, an Internet security application for PC and mobile devices. The company also offers content-driven applications comprising Live.me, a live video streaming application; and News Republic, a global mobile news service operator, as well as various products, which include mobile advertising publishing; mobile advertising platform; Duba.com personal start page that aggregates online resources and provides users access to their online destinations; Web and mobile games publishing; and cloud-based data analytics engines. It serves direct advertisers, including mobile application developers, mobile game developers, and e-commerce companies, as well as search engines. The company was formerly known as Kingsoft Internet Software Holdings Limited and changed its name to Cheetah Mobile Inc. in March 2014. Cheetah Mobile Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.
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.