This is a contrast between Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) and Five9 Inc. (NASDAQ:FIVN) based on their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation. The two companies are Application Software and they also compete with each other.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.60 | 0.00 |
| Five9 Inc. | 257.66M | 12.28 | N/A | -0.01 | 0.00 |
Table 1 shows top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation of the two companies.
Profitability
Table 2 shows Gridsum Holding Inc. and Five9 Inc.’s return on equity, return on assets and net margins.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -57.2% | -24.6% |
| Five9 Inc. | 0.00% | -0.2% | -0.1% |
Liquidity
2 and 2 are the respective Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of Gridsum Holding Inc. Its rival Five9 Inc.’s Current and Quick Ratios are 7 and 7 respectively. Five9 Inc. has a better chance of clearing its pay short and long-term debts than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Analyst Ratings
The table given features the ratings and recommendations for Gridsum Holding Inc. and Five9 Inc.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Five9 Inc. | 0 | 4 | 6 | 2.60 |
Competitively Five9 Inc. has a consensus price target of $56.67, with potential upside of 6.16%.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
Roughly 40.9% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares are owned by institutional investors while 0% of Five9 Inc. are owned by institutional investors. 5.3% are Gridsum Holding Inc.’s share owned by insiders. Comparatively, Five9 Inc. has 0.8% of it’s share owned by insiders.
Performance
In this table we show 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) | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 1.29% | 79.09% | -6.86% | -33.22% | -61.6% | 76.68% |
| Five9 Inc. | -1.59% | 2.7% | 27.2% | 8.96% | 73.07% | 20.11% |
For the past year Gridsum Holding Inc.’s stock price has bigger growth than Five9 Inc.
Summary
On 7 of the 8 factors Five9 Inc. beats 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.
Five9, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides cloud software for contact centers in the United States and internationally. It offers virtual contact center cloud platform that delivers a suite of applications which enables the breadth of contact center-related customer service, sales, and marketing functions; and acts a hub for omnichannel engagement between the clients and their customers, which enables them to manage the end-to-end customer experience in a single unified architecture. The companyÂ’s solution enables its clients to manage these customer interactions across various channels, including voice, chat, email, Web, social media, and mobile, as well as connects them to an appropriate agent. It also provides a set of management applications, including workforce management, reporting, quality management, and supervisor tools. The company serves customers in various industries, including banking and financial services, business process outsourcers, consumer, healthcare, and technology. Five9, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Ramon, California.
