Gridsum Holding Inc. (GSUM)’s Financial Results Comparing With Appian Corporation (NASDAQ:APPN)

Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) and Appian Corporation (NASDAQ:APPN) compete with each other in the Application Software sector. We will analyze and contrast their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.

Valuation and Earnings

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Gridsum Holding Inc.	3	0.00	N/A	-2.48	0.00
Appian Corporation	35	10.86	N/A	-0.91	0.00

Table 1 highlights Gridsum Holding Inc. and Appian Corporation’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

Profitability

Table 2 provides us Gridsum Holding Inc. and Appian Corporation’s return on equity, return on assets and net margins.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Gridsum Holding Inc.	0.00%	-127.4%	-42.8%
Appian Corporation	0.00%	-91.4%	-28%

Liquidity

Gridsum Holding Inc.’s Current Ratio is 0.9 while its Quick Ratio is 0.9. On the competitive side is, Appian Corporation which has a 1.4 Current Ratio and a 1.4 Quick Ratio. Appian Corporation is better positioned to pay off short and long-term obligations compared to Gridsum Holding Inc.

Analyst Recommendations

The table shown features the ratings and recommendations for Gridsum Holding Inc. and Appian Corporation.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Gridsum Holding Inc.	0	0	0	0.00
Appian Corporation	0	1	0	2.00

On the other hand, Appian Corporation’s potential downside is -8.56% and its consensus target price is $36.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

Institutional investors owned 36.4% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares and 55.3% of Appian Corporation shares. 5.3% are Gridsum Holding Inc.’s share owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% are Appian Corporation’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.	-6.17%	10.06%	11.11%	-26.78%	-43.37%	56.95%
Appian Corporation	1.85%	3.67%	-8.08%	31.45%	10.91%	27.85%

For the past year Gridsum Holding Inc. has stronger performance than Appian Corporation

Summary

Appian Corporation beats Gridsum Holding Inc. on 7 of the 8 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.

Appian Corporation provides low-code software development platform that enables organizations to develop various applications in the United States and internationally. The companyÂ’s platform automates the creation of forms, data flows, records, reports, and other software elements that are needed to be manually coded or configured. Its principal software markets include the markets for low-code development platforms, case management software, business process management, and platform-as-a-service. The company also offers professional and customer support services. Its customers include financial services, healthcare, government, telecommunications, media, energy, manufacturing, and transportation organizations. Appian Corporation was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia.