This is a contrast between Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) and Aware Inc. (NASDAQ:AWRE) based on their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and valuation. The two companies are Application Software and they also compete with each other.
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 |
| Aware Inc. | 16.13M | 5.01 | 1.23M | 0.06 | 68.95 |
Table 1 demonstrates Gridsum Holding Inc. and Aware Inc.’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Profitability
Table 2 provides us Gridsum Holding Inc. and Aware Inc.’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -57.2% | -24.6% |
| Aware Inc. | 7.63% | 2% | 1.9% |
Liquidity
The Current Ratio and Quick Ratio of Gridsum Holding Inc. are 2 and 2 respectively. Its competitor Aware Inc.’s Current Ratio is 12.8 and its Quick Ratio is 12.8. Aware Inc. can pay off short and long-term obligations better than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
Institutional investors held 40.9% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares and 31.3% of Aware Inc. shares. 5.3% are Gridsum Holding Inc.’s share held by insiders. Comparatively, insiders own roughly 3.4% of Aware Inc.’s shares.
Performance
In this table we show 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% |
| Aware Inc. | 4.8% | 11.65% | 12.29% | 10.7% | -5.3% | 8.86% |
For the past year Gridsum Holding Inc.’s stock price has bigger growth than Aware Inc.
Summary
Aware Inc. 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.
Aware, Inc. provides software and services for the biometrics industry worldwide. The companyÂ’s software products are used in government and commercial biometrics systems to identify or authenticate people. It offers biometrics software products, including biometric services platform, search and match products, software development kits, and application products for fingerprint, facial, and iris modalities that enable various functions in biometrics systems, such as enrollment, analysis, and processing of biometrics images and data on workstations or mobile devices; integration of peripheral biometric capture devices; centralized workflow, transaction processing, and subsystem integration; matching of biometric samples against biometric databases to authenticate or verify identities; and analysis and processing of text-based identity data. The company also provides imaging software products for medical images, such as JPEG2000 product to compress, store, and display images, as well as offers software maintenance services. In addition, it offers software engineering services comprising project planning and management; system design; software design, development, customization, configuration, and testing; and software integration and installation. The company sells its biometrics software products and services through systems integrators, OEMs, and directly to end user customers. Aware, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts.
