Both Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) and PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE:PAR) are Application Software companies, competing one another. We will contrast their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.
Valuation & Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.60 | 0.00 |
| PAR Technology Corporation | 201.25M | 1.82 | 24.12M | -1.14 | 0.00 |
Table 1 shows the gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation for Gridsum Holding Inc. and PAR Technology Corporation.
Profitability
Table 2 demonstrates the return on equity, return on assets and net margins of Gridsum Holding Inc. and PAR Technology Corporation.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -57.2% | -24.6% |
| PAR Technology Corporation | -11.99% | -35.9% | -19.9% |
Liquidity
Gridsum Holding Inc.’s Current Ratio and Quick Ratio are 2 and 2 respectively. The Current Ratio and Quick Ratio of its competitor PAR Technology Corporation are 1.5 and 0.9 respectively. Gridsum Holding Inc. therefore has a better chance of paying off short and long-term obligations compared to PAR Technology Corporation.
Analyst Recommendations
Gridsum Holding Inc. and PAR Technology Corporation Recommendations and Ratings are available in the next table.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| PAR Technology Corporation | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3.00 |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
Roughly 40.9% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares are held by institutional investors while 59.9% of PAR Technology Corporation are owned by institutional investors. 5.3% are Gridsum Holding Inc.’s share held by insiders. On the other hand, insiders held about 0.1% of PAR Technology Corporation’s shares.
Performance
In this table we provide 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. | 1.29% | 79.09% | -6.86% | -33.22% | -61.6% | 76.68% |
| PAR Technology Corporation | -9.86% | 0.52% | 27.4% | 6.14% | 129.49% | 15.22% |
For the past year Gridsum Holding Inc. has stronger performance than PAR Technology Corporation
Summary
On 6 of the 10 factors PAR Technology Corporation beats 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.
