Contrasting of Gridsum Holding Inc. (GSUM) and QAD Inc. (NASDAQ:QADA)

This is therefore a comparing of the institutional ownership, earnings and valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations in Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) and QAD Inc. (NASDAQ:QADA). The two are both Application Software companies that compete with one another.

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	-2.48	0.00
QAD Inc.	324.86M	2.38	5.80M	0.44	107.91

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

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Gridsum Holding Inc.	0.00%	-127.4%	-42.8%
QAD Inc.	1.79%	8.2%	3.6%

Liquidity

0.9 and 0.9 are the respective Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of Gridsum Holding Inc. Its rival QAD Inc.’s Current and Quick Ratios are 1.5 and 1.5 respectively. QAD Inc. has a better chance of clearing its pay short and long-term debts than Gridsum Holding Inc.

Dividends

QAD Inc. has an annual dividend pay of $0.29 per share while its annual dividend yield is 0.7%. No dividend is paid out by Gridsum Holding Inc.

Analyst Ratings

The table given features the ratings and recommendations for Gridsum Holding Inc. and QAD Inc.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Gridsum Holding Inc.	0	0	0	0.00
QAD Inc.	0	0	2	3.00

QAD Inc. on the other hand boasts of a $52 average price target and a 26.37% potential upside.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

The shares of both Gridsum Holding Inc. and QAD Inc. are owned by institutional investors at 36.4% and 55.2% respectively. Insiders held 5.3% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares. Competitively, QAD Inc. has 28.5% 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)
Gridsum Holding Inc.	-6.17%	10.06%	11.11%	-26.78%	-43.37%	56.95%
QAD Inc.	1.78%	6.58%	12.85%	10.93%	2.79%	21%

For the past year Gridsum Holding Inc. has stronger performance than QAD Inc.

Summary

QAD Inc. beats on 11 of the 12 factors 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.

QAD Inc. provides enterprise software solutions for manufacturing companies in the automotive, life sciences, consumer products, food and beverage, high technology, and industrial products industries worldwide. The company offers QAD Enterprise Applications, an integrated suite of software applications, which support the core business processes. Its QAD Enterprise Applications include software solutions, such as QAD Financials to manage and control finance and accounting processes; QAD Customer Management for manufacturers to acquire new customers; QAD Manufacturing, which supports manufacturing business processes; QAD Automation Solutions that improve manufacturersÂ’ material transaction processing; QAD Demand and Supply Chain Planning that fulfills materials planning and logistics requirements; QAD Supply Chain Execution that offers tools to support inventory and warehouse management; and QAD Transportation Management to manage and optimize outside carriers for shipments. The companyÂ’s QAD Enterprise Applications also comprise suites, such as QAD Service and Support that handles service calls, manages service queues, and organizes mobile field resources; QAD Enterprise Asset Management to manage, maintain, and install capital equipment; Action Centers with Embedded Analytics; and QAD Analytics that provides data to measure performance. It also offers QAD Enterprise Quality Management that provides quality management and regulatory compliance solutions; QAD Interoperability, which integrates QAD Enterprise Applications with other non-QAD core business applications; and QAD Internationalization, which supports companies that manufacture and distribute their products worldwide. In addition, it provides customer support, product updates, maintenance, and professional services. The company markets its products through direct and indirect sales channels; and distributors and sales agents. QAD Inc. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California.