Carbon Black Inc. (NASDAQ:CBLK) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) are two firms in the Application Software that compete against each other. Below is a comparison of their profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings and valuation.
Valuation & Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Carbon Black Inc. | 209.72M | 4.72 | 281.55M | -4.57 | 0.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.60 | 0.00 |
Table 1 shows the top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation for Carbon Black Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.
Profitability
Table 2 has Carbon Black Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.’s return on equity, return on assets and net margins.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Carbon Black Inc. | -134.25% | 0% | 0% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -57.2% | -24.6% |
Liquidity
The Current Ratio of Carbon Black Inc. is 1.5 while its Quick Ratio stands at 1.5. The Current Ratio of rival Gridsum Holding Inc. is 2 and its Quick Ratio is has 2. Gridsum Holding Inc. is better equipped to clear short and long-term obligations than Carbon Black Inc.
Analyst Recommendations
Carbon Black Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc. Recommendations and Ratings are available in the next table.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Carbon Black Inc. | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2.50 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
The upside potential is 28.66% for Carbon Black Inc. with average target price of $18.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
Institutional investors held 80.7% of Carbon Black Inc. shares and 40.9% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares. Insiders held roughly 2.7% of Carbon Black Inc.’s shares. Comparatively, insiders own roughly 5.3% of Gridsum Holding Inc.’s 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) | |
| Carbon Black Inc. | 0.62% | -16.4% | -22.73% | -48.34% | 0% | -3.5% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 1.29% | 79.09% | -6.86% | -33.22% | -61.6% | 76.68% |
For the past year Carbon Black Inc. had bearish trend while Gridsum Holding Inc. had bullish trend.
Carbon Black, Inc. provides security solutions in the United States and internationally. Its security cloud platform captures, records, and analyzes unfiltered endpoint data. The company’s solutions enable customers to predict, prevent, detect, respond to and remediate cyber attacks before they cause a damaging incident or data breach. Its solutions are used to augment or replace legacy antivirus software, prevent malware and fileless attacks, protect against ransomware, hunt down threats, respond to and remediate security incidents, lock down critical systems and applications, lock down critical systems and applications, secure workloads and applications in virtualized and cloud environments, comply with regulatory mandates, and enhance other security products through its unfiltered endpoint data. The company serves enterprises, government agencies, and mid-sized organizations. Carbon Black, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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.
