Comparing of Carbon Black Inc. (CBLK) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM)

Carbon Black Inc. (NASDAQ:CBLK) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM), are influenced by contrast since they are both players in the Application Software. These factors are particularly influence the institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation of the two firms.

Earnings and Valuation

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Carbon Black Inc.	219.85M	5.20	240.60M	-3.53	0.00
Gridsum Holding Inc.	N/A	0.00	N/A	-2.48	0.00

Table 1 shows gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation of the two companies.

Profitability

Table 2 shows us the return on assets, return on equity and net margins of both businesses.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Carbon Black Inc.	-109.44%	-126.4%	-60.1%
Gridsum Holding Inc.	0.00%	-127.4%	-42.8%

Liquidity

The Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of Carbon Black Inc. are 1.3 and 1.3. Competitively, Gridsum Holding Inc. has 0.9 and 0.9 for Current and Quick Ratio. Carbon Black Inc.’s better ability to pay short and long-term obligations than Gridsum Holding Inc.

Analyst Ratings

In next table is delivered Carbon Black Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.’s ratings and recommendations.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Carbon Black Inc.	0	1	2	2.67
Gridsum Holding Inc.	0	0	0	0.00

Carbon Black Inc.’s average target price is $18.67, while its potential upside is 16.76%.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

The shares of both Carbon Black Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc. are owned by institutional investors at 64.8% and 36.4% respectively. Insiders owned 3% of Carbon Black Inc. shares. Insiders Comparatively, owned 5.3% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares.

Performance

In this table we provide 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)
Carbon Black Inc.	2.97%	38.46%	16.81%	14.65%	-23.92%	34.13%
Gridsum Holding Inc.	-6.17%	10.06%	11.11%	-26.78%	-43.37%	56.95%

For the past year Carbon Black Inc. was less bullish than Gridsum Holding Inc.

Carbon Black, Inc. provides security solutions in the United States and internationally. Its security cloud platform captures, records, and analyzes unfiltered endpoint data. The company’s solutions enable customers to predict, prevent, detect, respond to and remediate cyber attacks before they cause a damaging incident or data breach. Its solutions are used to augment or replace legacy antivirus software, prevent malware and fileless attacks, protect against ransomware, hunt down threats, respond to and remediate security incidents, lock down critical systems and applications, lock down critical systems and applications, secure workloads and applications in virtualized and cloud environments, comply with regulatory mandates, and enhance other security products through its unfiltered endpoint data. The company serves enterprises, government agencies, and mid-sized organizations. Carbon Black, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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.