Comparison of RealPage Inc. (RP) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM)

RealPage Inc. (NASDAQ:RP) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) compete against each other in the Application Software sector. We will contrast them and contrast their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings and valuation.

Earnings and Valuation

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
RealPage Inc.	902.48M	6.14	35.10M	0.38	154.31
Gridsum Holding Inc.	N/A	0.00	N/A	-1.60	0.00

Table 1 shows the gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation for RealPage Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.

Profitability

Table 2 hightlights the net margins, return on assets and return on equity of the two companies.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
RealPage Inc.	3.89%	0.7%	0.3%
Gridsum Holding Inc.	0.00%	-57.2%	-24.6%

Analyst Recommendations

In next table is given RealPage Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.’s ratings and recommendations.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
RealPage Inc.	0	1	5	2.83
Gridsum Holding Inc.	0	0	0	0.00

RealPage Inc. has a 13.24% upside potential and an average price target of $68.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

The shares of both RealPage Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc. are owned by institutional investors at 87.1% and 40.9% respectively. Insiders owned 16.5% of RealPage Inc. shares. Insiders Competitively, owned 5.3% of Gridsum Holding Inc. 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)
RealPage Inc.	-3%	5.97%	17.61%	-4.14%	14.2%	22.64%
Gridsum Holding Inc.	1.29%	79.09%	-6.86%	-33.22%	-61.6%	76.68%

For the past year RealPage Inc.’s stock price has smaller growth than Gridsum Holding Inc.

Summary

On 9 of the 11 factors RealPage Inc. beats Gridsum Holding Inc.

RealPage, Inc. provides software and data analytics for the real estate industry in the United States. It offers OneSite, a property management solution for multi-family, affordable property, rural housing, military housing, senior and student living, and commercial property types; and Propertyware for accounting, maintenance and work order management, marketing, spend management, portal services, and screening and payment solutions. The company also provides Kigo, a vacation rental property management system; spend management solutions for property owners and managers; The RealPage Cloud, an application infrastructure to outsource portions of the information technology (IT) operations; SmartSource that provides back-office accounting, and IT management and support services; and EasyLMS, a learning management system for property management professionals and their staff. In addition, it offers Online Leasing, Contact Center, Websites and Syndication, MyNewPlace, Lead2Lease, and Resident Screening solutions that manage leasing and marketing processes, including Websites and syndication, paid lead generation, organic lead generation, lead management, automated lead closure, lead analytics, real-time unit availability, automated online apartment leasing, and applicant screening. Further, the company provides resident services solutions, such as Resident and Utility Billing, Resident Payments, Resident Portal, Contact Center Maintenance, and RenterÂ’s insurance for utility billing, renter payment processing, service requests, lease renewals, renterÂ’s insurance, and consulting and advisory services; asset optimization solutions covering yield management, business intelligence, and asset and investment management platforms; and professional services, such as consulting and implementation, as well as training services. Additionally, it offers IT infrastructure and product support services. RealPage, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Richardson, Texas.

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.