Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) and Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) have been rivals in the Application Software for quite some time. Below is a review of each business including various aspects such as institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Earnings & Valuation
| 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 |
| Open Text Corporation | 2.84B | 3.53 | 261.27M | 0.99 | 38.44 |
Demonstrates Gridsum Holding Inc. and Open Text Corporation earnings per share, top-line revenue and valuation.
Profitability
Table 2 shows the net margins, return on equity and return on assets of the two firms.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -57.2% | -24.6% |
| Open Text Corporation | 9.20% | 7% | 3.4% |
Liquidity
Gridsum Holding Inc.’s Current Ratio and Quick Ratio are 2 and 2 respectively. The Current Ratio and Quick Ratio of its competitor Open Text Corporation are 1.3 and 1.3 respectively. Gridsum Holding Inc. therefore has a better chance of paying off short and long-term obligations compared to Open Text Corporation.
Dividends
Meanhile, Open Text Corporation’s yearly dividend is $0.59 per share and 1.54% dividend yield. No dividend is paid out for Gridsum Holding Inc.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
The shares of both Gridsum Holding Inc. and Open Text Corporation are owned by institutional investors at 40.9% and 77.8% respectively. Insiders held 5.3% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares. On the other hand, insiders held about 2.3% of Open Text Corporation’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) | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 1.29% | 79.09% | -6.86% | -33.22% | -61.6% | 76.68% |
| Open Text Corporation | -0.58% | 6.23% | 9.45% | -3.74% | 9.17% | 16.13% |
For the past year Gridsum Holding Inc.’s stock price has bigger growth than Open Text Corporation.
Summary
Open Text Corporation beats on 9 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.
Open Text Corporation provides a suite of software products and services that assist organizations in finding, utilizing, and sharing business information from various devices. The company offers content solutions that provide content and records management, archiving, and email management and capture solutions, as well as Core, a software as a service based multi-tenant cloud solution; business process management for analyzing, automating, monitoring, and optimizing structured business processes; and customer experience management products, which offer Web content management, digital asset management, customer communications management, social software, and portal. Its products also include business network solutions comprising business-to-business integration, fax solutions, and secure messaging; analytics solutions, including embedded reporting and visualization, and big data analysis; and discovery solutions consisting of search, semantic navigation, and auto classification, as well as InfoFusion to deal with the issue of ‘information silos’ resulting from disconnected information sources across the enterprise. In addition, the company provides customer support programs that include access to software upgrades, a knowledge base, discussions, product information, and an online mechanism to post and review trouble tickets. Further, it offers professional services, such as consulting and learning services relating for the implementation, training, and integration of its product offerings into the customer’s systems; and cloud services that allow its customers to make use of its OpenText software, services, and content over Internet enabled networks. The company serves organizations, mid-market companies, and government agencies worldwide. It has strategic partnerships with SAP SE, Microsoft Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Accenture plc, Deloitte Consulting LLP, and others. Open Text Corporation was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Waterloo, Canada.