Both Eventbrite Inc. (NYSE:EB) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) are each other’s competitor in the Application Software industry. Thus the contrast of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, earnings and valuation.
Valuation & Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Eventbrite Inc. | 291.61M | 5.61 | 64.08M | -1.39 | 0.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.60 | 0.00 |
We can see in table 1 the earnings per share (EPS), gross revenue and valuation of Eventbrite Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.
Profitability
Table 2 hightlights the net margins, return on equity and return on assets of the two companies.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Eventbrite Inc. | -21.97% | 0% | 0% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -57.2% | -24.6% |
Liquidity
Eventbrite Inc.’s Current Ratio and Quick Ratio are 1.7 and 1.7 respectively. The Current Ratio and Quick Ratio of its competitor Gridsum Holding Inc. are 2 and 2 respectively. Gridsum Holding Inc. therefore has a better chance of paying off short and long-term obligations compared to Eventbrite Inc.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
Eventbrite Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc. has shares held by institutional investors as follows: 0% and 40.9%. Insiders held roughly 0.2% of Eventbrite Inc.’s shares. Comparatively, Gridsum Holding Inc. has 5.3% of it’s share held by insiders.
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) | |
| Eventbrite Inc. | 5.58% | 5.96% | 6% | 0% | 0% | 14.35% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 1.29% | 79.09% | -6.86% | -33.22% | -61.6% | 76.68% |
For the past year Eventbrite Inc. has weaker performance than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Summary
On 5 of the 9 factors Eventbrite Inc. beats Gridsum Holding Inc.
Eventbrite, Inc. operates as a technology platform worldwide. Its platform integrates components needed to plan, promote, and produce live events that allow creators to reduce friction and costs, increase reach, and drive ticket sales. The company was formerly known as Mollyguard Corporation and changed its name to Eventbrite, Inc. in 2009. Eventbrite, Inc. was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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.