Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) and Luxoft Holding Inc. (NYSE:LXFT) are two firms in the Application Software that compete against each other. Below is a comparison of their profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation, institutional ownership.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.20 | 0.00 |
| Luxoft Holding Inc. | 904.44M | 2.19 | 41.58M | 1.51 | 21.74 |
Table 1 highlights Gridsum Holding Inc. and Luxoft Holding Inc.’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
Profitability
Table 2 has Gridsum Holding Inc. and Luxoft Holding Inc.’s return on assets, net margins and return on equity.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -19.7% | -11.2% |
| Luxoft Holding Inc. | 4.60% | 10.9% | 8.6% |
Liquidity
The current Quick Ratio of Gridsum Holding Inc. is 2 while its Current Ratio is 2. Meanwhile, Luxoft Holding Inc. has a Current Ratio of 3.1 while its Quick Ratio is 3. Luxoft Holding Inc. is better positioned to pay off its short-term and long-term debts than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Analyst Recommendations
In next table is given Gridsum Holding Inc. and Luxoft Holding Inc.’s ratings and recommendations.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Luxoft Holding Inc. | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2.50 |
On the other hand, Luxoft Holding Inc.’s potential downside is -10.63% and its consensus target price is $52.2.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
Institutional investors owned 37.7% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares and 0% of Luxoft Holding Inc. shares. About 5.3% of Gridsum Holding Inc.’s share are owned by insiders. On the other hand, insiders owned about 4.04% of Luxoft Holding Inc.’s shares.
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) | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | -9.6% | -27.31% | -32.75% | -38.34% | -55.84% | -57.81% |
| Luxoft Holding Inc. | -0.61% | -23.08% | -29.42% | -8.71% | -37.37% | -41.08% |
For the past year Gridsum Holding Inc. was more bearish than Luxoft Holding Inc.
Summary
On 11 of the 11 factors Luxoft Holding Inc. beats Gridsum Holding Inc.
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.
Luxoft Holding, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides software development services and IT solutions to multinational corporations primarily in Europe and the United States. It offers application software development, software architecture design, performance engineering, optimization and testing, process consulting, and software quality assurance services; functional specification and mock-up, product design, engineering, automated testing, maintenance, support, and performance engineering services; and IT strategy, software engineering process, and data security consulting services. The companyÂ’s products and platforms include Teora, a suite of developer tools designed to enable automotive human machine interface (HMI) developers build the logic of their user interface; Populus, a tool chain for HMI design and development, and the deployment of automotive user interfaces for distributed embedded systems; and AllView, a user-experience demonstrator that links instrument cluster, head unit, head-up display, and mobile devices. It serves financial services, automotive and transport, travel and aviation, technology, telecom, healthcare and pharmaceutical, energy, and other industries. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.
