Reviewing Gridsum Holding Inc. (GSUM)’s and Micro Focus International plc (NYSE:MFGP)’s results

Both Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) and Micro Focus International plc (NYSE:MFGP) are Application Software companies, competing one another. We will contrast their institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.

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	-2.48	0.00
Micro Focus International plc	3.17B	2.71	471.41M	1.31	17.83

Table 1 highlights Gridsum Holding Inc. and Micro Focus International plc’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

Profitability

Table 2 has Gridsum Holding Inc. and Micro Focus International plc’s return on assets, net margins and return on equity.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Gridsum Holding Inc.	0.00%	-127.4%	-42.8%
Micro Focus International plc	14.87%	0%	0%

Dividends

The dividend yield for Micro Focus International plc is 4.15% while its annual dividend payout is $1.01 per share. No dividend is paid out for Gridsum Holding Inc.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

Gridsum Holding Inc. and Micro Focus International plc has shares held by institutional investors as follows: 36.4% and 18.77%. Gridsum Holding Inc.’s share held by insiders are 5.3%.

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)
Gridsum Holding Inc.	-6.17%	10.06%	11.11%	-26.78%	-43.37%	56.95%
Micro Focus International plc	-0.38%	17.48%	53.47%	78.98%	72.94%	72.64%

For the past year Gridsum Holding Inc.’s stock price has smaller growth than Micro Focus International plc.

Summary

Micro Focus International plc beats on 10 of the 11 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.

Micro Focus International plc, an infrastructure software company, develops, sells, and supports software products and solutions to federal, airlines, and healthcare industries in the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, Japan, and internationally. The company operates through Micro Focus and SUSE segments. It provides software products in the areas of collaboration, endpoint management, file and networking services, identity and access management, information archiving, security management, terminal emulation, and software delivery and testing, as well as COBOL development and mainframe, and data center solutions. The company offers enterprise Linux, OpenStack private cloud, software-defined storage, and other IT infrastructure management and optimization solutions; and professional, and training and education services. Micro Focus International plc was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Newbury, the United Kingdom.