Great Elm Capital Group (NASDAQ:GEC) and Gridsum (NASDAQ:GSUM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Volatility & Risk
Great Elm Capital Group has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gridsum has a beta of 2.71, suggesting that its stock price is 171% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Great Elm Capital Group and Gridsum, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Great Elm Capital Group | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| Gridsum | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Great Elm Capital Group and Gridsum’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Great Elm Capital Group | $5.93 million | 16.49 | -$11.06 million | N/A | N/A |
| Gridsum | $62.72 million | 0.88 | -$75.82 million | N/A | N/A |
Great Elm Capital Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Gridsum.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
46.6% of Great Elm Capital Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.1% of Gridsum shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.0% of Great Elm Capital Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares Great Elm Capital Group and Gridsum’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Great Elm Capital Group | -12.10% | -13.20% | -4.96% |
| Gridsum | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Summary
Gridsum beats Great Elm Capital Group on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Great Elm Capital Group
Great Elm Capital Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in investment management and real estate property rental businesses. It provides investment advisory services. The company was formerly known as Unwired Planet, Inc. and changed its name to Great Elm Capital Group, Inc. in June 2016. Great Elm Capital Group, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
About Gridsum
Gridsum Holding Inc. provides data analysis software for enterprises and government agencies in China. Its proprietary distributed data architecture allows its customers to collect and analyze information; and Gridsum Big Data platform and Gridsum Prophet 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 track and analyze user behavior from original access to ultimate conversion; Audience Dissector, an audience analysis product; and 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 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; voice recognition and transcription system; Information Dissector, an insightful analytical system; Social Listening, a cloud-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 customer needs. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.
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