Momo (NASDAQ:MOMO) and Gridsum (NASDAQ:GSUM) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations and price targets for Momo and Gridsum, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Momo | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Gridsum | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
Momo presently has a consensus price target of $44.33, suggesting a potential upside of 28.21%. Given Momo’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Momo is more favorable than Gridsum.
Risk & Volatility
Momo has a beta of 2.3, indicating that its share price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gridsum has a beta of 2.72, indicating that its share price is 172% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Momo and Gridsum’s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Momo | $1.95 billion | 3.53 | $409.54 million | $1.96 | 17.64 |
| Gridsum | $62.72 million | 1.19 | -$75.82 million | N/A | N/A |
Momo has higher revenue and earnings than Gridsum.
Profitability
This table compares Momo and Gridsum’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Momo | 15.96% | 23.10% | 13.59% |
| Gridsum | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
58.4% of Momo shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.0% of Gridsum shares are held by institutional investors. 61.4% of Momo shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Momo beats Gridsum on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Momo
Momo Inc. operates a mobile-based social and entertainment platform in the People’s Republic of China. The company operates Momo platform that includes its Momo mobile application and various related features, functionalities, tools, and services to users, customers, and platform partners. It offers Momo mobile application that enables users to establish and expand their social relationships based on locations; interests; and recreational activities, including live talent shows, short videos, social games, and other video- and audio-based interactive experiences. The company also operates Tantan, a social and dating app to help its users to find and establish romantic connections, as well as to meet interesting people primarily for young mobile Internet users. The company was formerly known as Momo Technology Company Limited and changed its name to Momo Inc. in July 2014. Momo Inc. was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People’s Republic of China.
About Gridsum
Gridsum Holding Inc. provides data analysis software for enterprises and government agencies in China. Its proprietary distributed data architecture allows its customers to collect and analyze information; and Gridsum Big Data platform and Gridsum Prophet 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 track and analyze user behavior from original access to ultimate conversion; Audience Dissector, an audience analysis product; and 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 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; voice recognition and transcription system; Information Dissector, an insightful analytical system; Social Listening, a cloud-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 customer needs. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.
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