Both Pluralsight Inc. (NASDAQ:PS) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) are Application Software companies, competing one another. We will compare their profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Pluralsight Inc. | 232.03M | 17.46 | 259.94M | -4.25 | 0.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.20 | 0.00 |
We can see in table 1 the earnings per share (EPS), top-line revenue and valuation of Pluralsight Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.
Profitability
Table 2 represents Pluralsight Inc. (NASDAQ:PS) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM)’s return on assets, return on equity and net margins.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Pluralsight Inc. | -112.03% | 191.2% | -103.3% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -19.7% | -11.2% |
Liquidity
The Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of Pluralsight Inc. are 1.5 and 1.5. Competitively, Gridsum Holding Inc. has 2 and 2 for Current and Quick Ratio. Gridsum Holding Inc.’s better ability to pay short and long-term obligations than Pluralsight Inc.
Analyst Ratings
The table given features the ratings and recommendations for Pluralsight Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Pluralsight Inc. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Pluralsight Inc. has a 16.71% upside potential and a consensus price target of $35.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
Institutional investors held 0% of Pluralsight Inc. shares and 37.7% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares. Insiders held 0.3% of Pluralsight Inc. shares. Comparatively, 5.3% are Gridsum Holding Inc.’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) | |
| Pluralsight Inc. | 0.79% | 7.77% | -33.35% | -11.13% | 0% | 21.4% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | -9.6% | -27.31% | -32.75% | -38.34% | -55.84% | -57.81% |
For the past year Pluralsight Inc. had bullish trend while Gridsum Holding Inc. had bearish trend.
Pluralsight, Inc. operates a cloud-based technology learning platform worldwide. Its learning platform offers a range of tools, including skill assessment tool, which uses machine learning and advanced algorithms to measure a user’s skills, benchmark that user against others in the industry, and recommend opportunities for growth; and Course Library that include 6,700 on-demand and online courses across a range of technology subject areas, such as cloud, mobile, security, IT, and data. The company’s learning platform also provides Learning Paths that are curated to take users through a set of courses designed to help them master a particular subject area based on either an assessment or a user’s goals; and business analytics tools, which enable business customers to evaluate the technology skills of their teams, align learning to key business objectives, determine the usage of platform, examine trends in skill development, and quantify the impact of platform on their business. It serves individuals and business customers. Pluralsight, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Farmington, Utah.
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.
