Both MongoDB Inc. (NASDAQ:MDB) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) compete on a level playing field in the Application Software industry. We will evaluate their performance with regards to risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, earnings and valuation.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| MongoDB Inc. | 267.02M | 27.91 | 99.01M | -2.31 | 0.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.60 | 0.00 |
Demonstrates MongoDB Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc. earnings per share, top-line revenue and valuation.
Profitability
Table 2 hightlights the return on assets, net margins and return on equity of the two companies.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| MongoDB Inc. | -37.08% | -61.2% | -22% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -57.2% | -24.6% |
Liquidity
The Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of MongoDB Inc. are 3.4 and 3.4. Competitively, Gridsum Holding Inc. has 2 and 2 for Current and Quick Ratio. MongoDB Inc.’s better ability to pay short and long-term obligations than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Analyst Ratings
The next table highlights the delivered recommendations and ratings for MongoDB Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| MongoDB Inc. | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2.67 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
MongoDB Inc.’s downside potential is -3.82% at a $130.33 average price target.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
Roughly 99.6% of MongoDB Inc. shares are held by institutional investors while 40.9% of Gridsum Holding Inc. are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% are MongoDB Inc.’s share held by insiders. Insiders Competitively, held 5.3% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares.
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) | |
| MongoDB Inc. | -10.33% | 4.77% | 15.22% | 34.57% | 193.78% | 15.56% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 1.29% | 79.09% | -6.86% | -33.22% | -61.6% | 76.68% |
For the past year MongoDB Inc. was less bullish than Gridsum Holding Inc.
MongoDB, Inc. operates as a general purpose database platform worldwide. It offers MongoDB Enterprise Advanced, a subscription package for enterprise customers to run in the cloud or in a hybrid environment; MongoDB Atlas, a cloud hosted database-as-a-service solution; Community Server, a free-to-download version of its database, which includes the functionality that developers need to get started with MongoDB; and MongoDB Stitch, a backend-as-a-service designed to simplify application development. The company also provides professional services, such as consulting and training. It serves financial services, government, healthcare, media and entertainment, retail, technology, and telecommunications industries. The company was formerly known as 10gen, Inc. and changed its name to MongoDB, Inc. in August 2013. MongoDB, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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.
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