As Application Software businesses, Aurora Mobile Limited (NASDAQ:JG) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM), are affected by contrast. This especially applies to their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings and valuation.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Aurora Mobile Limited | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -0.15 | 0.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.60 | 0.00 |
Demonstrates Aurora Mobile Limited and Gridsum Holding Inc. earnings per share (EPS), top-line revenue and valuation.
Profitability
Table 2 demonstrates the return on equity, net margins and return on assets of Aurora Mobile Limited and Gridsum Holding Inc.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Aurora Mobile Limited | 0.00% | 0% | 0% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -57.2% | -24.6% |
Liquidity
The Current Ratio of Aurora Mobile Limited is 3 while its Quick Ratio stands at 3. The Current Ratio of rival Gridsum Holding Inc. is 2 and its Quick Ratio is has 2. Aurora Mobile Limited is better equipped to clear short and long-term obligations than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Analyst Recommendations
Aurora Mobile Limited and Gridsum Holding Inc. Ratings and Recommendations are available on the next table.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Aurora Mobile Limited | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
$9.7 is Aurora Mobile Limited’s consensus target price while its potential upside is 52.04%.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
The shares of both Aurora Mobile Limited and Gridsum Holding Inc. are owned by institutional investors at 7.4% and 40.9% respectively. Insiders owned roughly 33.75% of Aurora Mobile Limited’s shares. Competitively, insiders own roughly 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) | |
| Aurora Mobile Limited | -6.06% | 8.33% | 38.98% | -25.68% | 0% | 20.37% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 1.29% | 79.09% | -6.86% | -33.22% | -61.6% | 76.68% |
For the past year Aurora Mobile Limited was less bullish than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Summary
Aurora Mobile Limited beats on 5 of the 6 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.
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