Since QAD Inc. (NASDAQ:QADB) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) are part of the Application Software industry, they are influenced by contrast. The influences particularly affect the risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and valuation of both companies.
Valuation & Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| QAD Inc. | 333.02M | 2.77 | 10.43M | 0.02 | 2200.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.60 | 0.00 |
Demonstrates QAD Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc. earnings per share (EPS), gross revenue and valuation.
Profitability
Table 2 represents QAD Inc. (NASDAQ:QADB) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM)’s return on assets, net margins and return on equity.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| QAD Inc. | 3.13% | 0% | 0% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -57.2% | -24.6% |
Dividends
QAD Inc. pays out a $0.29 per share dividend on a yearly basis and it also offers 0.86% dividend yield. No dividend is paid out for Gridsum Holding Inc.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
Roughly 11.32% of QAD Inc. shares are held by institutional investors while 40.9% of Gridsum Holding Inc. are owned by institutional investors. 76.61% are QAD Inc.’s share held by insiders. Insiders Comparatively, held 5.3% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares.
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) | |
| QAD Inc. | 3.45% | 3.91% | 8.95% | -19.61% | 18.07% | 11.83% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 1.29% | 79.09% | -6.86% | -33.22% | -61.6% | 76.68% |
For the past year QAD Inc. has weaker performance than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Summary
QAD Inc. beats Gridsum Holding Inc. on 9 of the 11 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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