Reviewing Powerbridge Technologies Co. Ltd. (PBTS)’s and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM)’s results

We are contrasting Powerbridge Technologies Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ:PBTS) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) on their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation. They both are Application Software companies, competing one another.

Valuation & Earnings

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Powerbridge Technologies Co. Ltd.	23.15M	1.50	1.55M	0.43	11.38
Gridsum Holding Inc.	N/A	0.00	N/A	-2.48	0.00

Table 1 shows top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation of the two companies.

Profitability

Table 2 provides Powerbridge Technologies Co. Ltd. and Gridsum Holding Inc.’s net margins, return on assets and return on equity.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Powerbridge Technologies Co. Ltd.	6.70%	0%	0%
Gridsum Holding Inc.	0.00%	-127.4%	-42.8%

Liquidity

The Current Ratio and Quick Ratio of Powerbridge Technologies Co. Ltd. are 1.1 and 1.1 respectively. Its competitor Gridsum Holding Inc.’s Current Ratio is 0.9 and its Quick Ratio is 0.9. Powerbridge Technologies Co. Ltd. can pay off short and long-term obligations better than Gridsum Holding Inc.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

The shares of both Powerbridge Technologies Co. Ltd. and Gridsum Holding Inc. are owned by institutional investors at 0% and 36.4% respectively. About 73.5% of Powerbridge Technologies Co. Ltd.’s share are held by insiders. Insiders Comparatively, held 5.3% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares.

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)
Powerbridge Technologies Co. Ltd.	-7.58%	-9.63%	0%	0%	0%	-5.06%
Gridsum Holding Inc.	-6.17%	10.06%	11.11%	-26.78%	-43.37%	56.95%

For the past year Powerbridge Technologies Co. Ltd. had bearish trend while Gridsum Holding Inc. had bullish trend.

Summary

Powerbridge Technologies Co. Ltd. beats Gridsum Holding Inc. on 9 of the 10 factors.

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.