We are comparing Shopify Inc. (NYSE:SHOP) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) on their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings and valuation, institutional ownership. They both are Application Software companies, competing one another.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Shopify Inc. | 1.07B | 20.48 | 64.55M | -0.61 | 0.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.60 | 0.00 |
We can see in table 1 the earnings per share (EPS), gross revenue and valuation of Shopify Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.
Profitability
Table 2 demonstrates the net margins, return on equity and return on assets of Shopify Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Shopify Inc. | -6.03% | -3.7% | -3.4% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -57.2% | -24.6% |
Liquidity
Shopify Inc.’s Current Ratio and Quick Ratio are 15.4 and 15.4 respectively. The Current Ratio and Quick Ratio of its competitor Gridsum Holding Inc. are 2 and 2 respectively. Shopify Inc. therefore has a better chance of paying off short and long-term obligations compared to Gridsum Holding Inc.
Analyst Ratings
Shopify Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc. Ratings and Recommendations are available on the next table.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Shopify Inc. | 0 | 2 | 8 | 2.80 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
The downside potential is -2.17% for Shopify Inc. with consensus target price of $194.44.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
The shares of both Shopify Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc. are owned by institutional investors at 75.9% and 40.9% respectively. Insiders held roughly 0.34% of Shopify Inc.’s shares. Comparatively, insiders own roughly 5.3% of Gridsum Holding Inc.’s 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) | |
| Shopify Inc. | -0.55% | 10.68% | 24.35% | 28.47% | 36.26% | 34.68% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 1.29% | 79.09% | -6.86% | -33.22% | -61.6% | 76.68% |
For the past year Shopify Inc. was less bullish than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Summary
Shopify Inc. beats Gridsum Holding Inc. on 7 of the 10 factors.
Shopify Inc. provides a cloud-based multi-channel commerce platform for small and medium-sized businesses in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and internationally. Its platform provides merchants with a single view of their business and customers in various sales channels, including Web and mobile storefronts, physical retail locations, social media storefronts, and marketplaces; and enables them to manage products and inventory, process orders and payments, ship orders, build customer relationships, and leverage analytics and reporting. The company was formerly known as Jaded Pixel Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Shopify Inc. in November 2011. Shopify Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.
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.