Digital Turbine Inc. (NASDAQ:APPS) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) compete against each other in the Application Software sector. We will compare them and contrast their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.
Valuation & Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Digital Turbine Inc. | 97.34M | 2.47 | 1.75M | -0.24 | 0.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.60 | 0.00 |
We can see in table 1 the earnings per share (EPS), top-line revenue and valuation of Digital Turbine Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.
Profitability
Table 2 provides us the net margins, return on equity and return on assets of both companies.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Digital Turbine Inc. | -1.80% | 0% | 0% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -57.2% | -24.6% |
Liquidity
The Current Ratio and Quick Ratio of Digital Turbine Inc. are 0.9 and 0.9 respectively. Its competitor Gridsum Holding Inc.’s Current Ratio is 2 and its Quick Ratio is 2. Gridsum Holding Inc. can pay off short and long-term obligations better than Digital Turbine Inc.
Analyst Recommendations
The Ratings and Recommendations for Digital Turbine Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc. are featured in the next table.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Digital Turbine Inc. | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
The upside potential is 30.72% for Digital Turbine Inc. with average price target of $4.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
Roughly 36.6% of Digital Turbine Inc. shares are held by institutional investors while 40.9% of Gridsum Holding Inc. are owned by institutional investors. Insiders held 0.5% of Digital Turbine Inc. shares. On the other hand, insiders held about 5.3% of Gridsum 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) | |
| Digital Turbine Inc. | 4.49% | 48.18% | 86.29% | 127.97% | 44.25% | 78.14% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 1.29% | 79.09% | -6.86% | -33.22% | -61.6% | 76.68% |
For the past year Digital Turbine Inc. has stronger performance than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Summary
Digital Turbine Inc. beats on 7 of the 10 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.