PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE:PAR) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) compete against each other in the Application Software sector. We will contrast them and contrast their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| PAR Technology Corporation | 25 | 2.27 | N/A | -1.50 | 0.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 3 | 0.00 | N/A | -2.48 | 0.00 |
Demonstrates PAR Technology Corporation and Gridsum Holding Inc. earnings per share, gross revenue and valuation.
Profitability
Table 2 shows us PAR Technology Corporation and Gridsum Holding Inc.’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| PAR Technology Corporation | 0.00% | -39.3% | -20.8% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -127.4% | -42.8% |
Liquidity
PAR Technology Corporation’s Current Ratio is 1.4 while its Quick Ratio is 0.8. On the competitive side is, Gridsum Holding Inc. which has a 0.9 Current Ratio and a 0.9 Quick Ratio. PAR Technology 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 PAR Technology Corporation and Gridsum Holding Inc.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| PAR Technology Corporation | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
PAR Technology Corporation has a consensus target price of $32, and a 20.53% upside potential.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
Institutional investors held 59.6% of PAR Technology Corporation shares and 36.4% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares. Insiders held 0.2% of PAR Technology Corporation shares. On the other hand, insiders held about 5.3% of Gridsum Holding Inc.’s shares.
Performance
In this table we provide 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) | |
| PAR Technology Corporation | 5.77% | 12.14% | -4.03% | 50.44% | 74.66% | 17.24% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | -6.17% | 10.06% | 11.11% | -26.78% | -43.37% | 56.95% |
For the past year PAR Technology Corporation has weaker performance than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Summary
PAR Technology 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.
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