Both Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) and The KeyW Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:KEYW) are each other’s competitor in the Application Software industry. Thus the compare of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, earnings and valuation.
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 | -1.20 | 0.00 |
| The KeyW Holding Corporation | 507.45M | 0.73 | 1.23M | -0.06 | 0.00 |
Table 1 highlights Gridsum Holding Inc. and The KeyW Holding Corporation’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Profitability
Table 2 hightlights the return on equity, return on assets and net margins of the two companies.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -19.7% | -11.2% |
| The KeyW Holding Corporation | 0.24% | -1% | -0.4% |
Liquidity
The Current Ratio and Quick Ratio of Gridsum Holding Inc. are 2 and 2 respectively. Its competitor The KeyW Holding Corporation’s Current Ratio is 1.7 and its Quick Ratio is 1.4. Gridsum Holding Inc. can pay off short and long-term obligations better than The KeyW Holding Corporation.
Analyst Ratings
Gridsum Holding Inc. and The KeyW Holding Corporation Ratings and Recommendations are available in the next table.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| The KeyW Holding Corporation | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3.00 |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
Roughly 37.7% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares are owned by institutional investors while 0% of The KeyW Holding Corporation are owned by institutional investors. Gridsum Holding Inc.’s share owned by insiders are 5.3%. Comparatively, The KeyW Holding Corporation has 3% of it’s share owned 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. | -9.6% | -27.31% | -32.75% | -38.34% | -55.84% | -57.81% |
| The KeyW Holding Corporation | -3.79% | 5.15% | 5.98% | -2.08% | 85.77% | 60.14% |
For the past year Gridsum Holding Inc. had bearish trend while The KeyW Holding Corporation had bullish trend.
Summary
The KeyW Holding Corporation beats Gridsum Holding Inc. on 9 of the 10 factors.
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.