We will be comparing the differences between DropCar Inc. (NASDAQ:DCAR) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) as far as institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation are concerned. The two businesses are rivals in the Application Software industry.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| DropCar Inc. | 17.32M | 0.21 | 14.57M | -2.96 | 0.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.20 | 0.00 |
Table 1 shows gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation of the two companies.
Profitability
Table 2 has DropCar Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.’s net margins, return on assets and return on equity.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| DropCar Inc. | -84.12% | -167.6% | -101.6% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -19.7% | -11.2% |
Liquidity
The Current Ratio and Quick Ratio of DropCar Inc. are 1.3 and 1.3 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 DropCar Inc.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
The shares of both DropCar Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc. are owned by institutional investors at 2.4% and 37.7% respectively. DropCar Inc.’s share owned by insiders are 7.5%. Competitively, 5.3% are Gridsum Holding Inc.’s share owned by insiders.
Performance
In this table we show the Week, Month, Quarter, Half Year, Year and YTD Performance of both pretenders.
| Performance (W) | Performance (M) | Performance (Q) | Performance (HY) | Performance (Y) | Performance (YTD) | |
| DropCar Inc. | 5.72% | -15.43% | -41.8% | -77.3% | -92.31% | -91.71% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | -9.6% | -27.31% | -32.75% | -38.34% | -55.84% | -57.81% |
For the past year DropCar Inc.’s stock price has bigger decline than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Summary
On 7 of the 9 factors Gridsum Holding Inc. beats DropCar Inc.
DropCar, Inc. provides app-based automotive logistics and mobility services for consumers and the automotive industry. The company offers Vehicle Support Platform, a cloud-based platform and mobile app that help consumers and automotive-related companies in reducing the cost, hassles, and inefficiencies of owning a car or fleet of cars in urban centers. Its technology platform blends the efficiency and scale of cloud computing, machine learning, and connected cars with the trained drivers to move cars to/from fully staffed, secure garages to/from the people or businesses who own them. The company provides its mobile app for consumers to ease the cost and stress of owning a car in the city; and enterprise platform for dealerships, leasing companies, OEMs, and shared mobility companies to reduce costs, streamline logistics, and deepen relationships with customers. DropCar, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.
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.
