Both Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) and HubSpot Inc. (NYSE:HUBS) are each other’s competitor in the Application Software industry. Thus the compare of their institutional ownership, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, 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 |
| HubSpot Inc. | 512.98M | 13.32 | 63.83M | -1.66 | 0.00 |
Table 1 demonstrates Gridsum Holding Inc. and HubSpot Inc.’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
Profitability
Table 2 demonstrates the return on assets, net margins and return on equity of Gridsum Holding Inc. and HubSpot Inc.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -57.2% | -24.6% |
| HubSpot Inc. | -12.44% | -27.7% | -8.2% |
Liquidity
2 and 2 are the respective Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of Gridsum Holding Inc. Its rival HubSpot Inc.’s Current and Quick Ratios are 3 and 3 respectively. HubSpot Inc. has a better chance of clearing its pay short and long-term debts than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Analyst Ratings
The Ratings and Recommendations for Gridsum Holding Inc. and HubSpot Inc. are featured in the next table.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| HubSpot Inc. | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2.43 |
HubSpot Inc. on the other hand boasts of a $170.5 average target price and a 2.71% potential upside.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
Roughly 40.9% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares are held by institutional investors while 95.7% of HubSpot Inc. are owned by institutional investors. 5.3% are Gridsum Holding Inc.’s share held by insiders. On the other hand, insiders held about 6.2% of HubSpot 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% |
| HubSpot Inc. | -3.56% | 3.59% | 25.52% | 14.76% | 46.22% | 30.43% |
For the past year Gridsum Holding Inc. was more bullish than HubSpot Inc.
Summary
HubSpot Inc. beats on 6 of the 10 factors 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.
HubSpot, Inc. provides a cloud-based marketing and sales software platform for businesses in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. Its software platform includes integrated applications, such as social media, search engine optimization, blogging, Website content management, marketing automation, email, CRM, analytics, and reporting that enables businesses to attract visitors to their Websites, convert visitors into leads, and close leads into customers and delight customers. The company also offers professional, and phone and email-based support services. HubSpot, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
