We will be comparing the differences between Rimini Street Inc. (NASDAQ:RMNI) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) as far as analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings and valuation are concerned. The two businesses are rivals in the Application Software industry.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Rimini Street Inc. | 242.99M | 1.38 | 78.93M | -1.19 | 0.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.20 | 0.00 |
Table 1 showcases the gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation of Rimini Street Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.
Profitability
Table 2 shows us the net margins, return on assets and return on equity of both businesses.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Rimini Street Inc. | -32.48% | 32.6% | -63.4% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -19.7% | -11.2% |
Liquidity
Rimini Street Inc.’s Current Ratio and Quick Ratio are 0.4 and 0.4 respectively. The Current Ratio and Quick Ratio of its competitor Gridsum Holding Inc. are 2 and 2 respectively. Gridsum Holding Inc. therefore has a better chance of paying off short and long-term obligations compared to Rimini Street Inc.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
Rimini Street Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc. has shares owned by institutional investors as follows: 43.4% and 37.7%. Insiders owned 1.2% of Rimini Street Inc. shares. Comparatively, Gridsum Holding Inc. has 5.3% of it’s share owned by insiders.
Performance
In this table we show 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) | |
| Rimini Street Inc. | -4.28% | -28.28% | -16.61% | -18.68% | -33.51% | -37.8% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | -9.6% | -27.31% | -32.75% | -38.34% | -55.84% | -57.81% |
For the past year Rimini Street Inc. was less bearish than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Summary
Rimini Street Inc. beats Gridsum Holding Inc. on 5 of the 9 factors.
Rimini Street, Inc. provides enterprise software support services. It offers enterprise software support services for Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Database, Hyperion, Oracle Retail, Oracle Fusion Middleware, SAP, and BusinessObjects software. The company provides support services program features, such as product support, security support, risk avoidance, technology support, innovation and roadmap, account management, and onboarding and archiving services, as well as global tax, legal, and regulatory update services. It serves global, Fortune 500, midmarket, and public sector organizations in various industries, such as financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, public sector and higher education, retail, services and media, transportation and distribution, and utilities. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. It has global offices in Beijing, Bengaluru, Frankfurt, Hertzelia Pituach, Hyderabad, London, Melbourne, New York, Pleasanton, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Osaka, and Tokyo.
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.
