Upland Software Inc. (NASDAQ:UPLD) and Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) compete with each other in the Application Software sector. We will analyze and compare their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and valuation.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Upland Software Inc. | 149.88M | 6.67 | 10.84M | -0.87 | 0.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.60 | 0.00 |
In table 1 we can see Upland Software Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.’s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
Profitability
Table 2 shows us Upland Software Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.’s return on equity, net margins and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Upland Software Inc. | -7.23% | -17.9% | -5.1% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -57.2% | -24.6% |
Liquidity
The current Quick Ratio of Upland Software Inc. is 0.6 while its Current Ratio is 0.6. Meanwhile, Gridsum Holding Inc. has a Current Ratio of 2 while its Quick Ratio is 2. Gridsum Holding Inc. is better positioned to pay off its short-term and long-term debts than Upland Software Inc.
Analyst Ratings
The following table delivered below contains the ratings and recommendations for Upland Software Inc. and Gridsum Holding Inc.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Upland Software Inc. | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3.00 |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
The average price target of Upland Software Inc. is $47.25, with potential upside of 1.44%.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
Institutional investors owned 74.5% of Upland Software Inc. shares and 40.9% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares. Insiders owned 10.1% of Upland Software Inc. shares. On the other hand, insiders owned about 5.3% of Gridsum Holding Inc.’s 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) | |
| Upland Software Inc. | -2.28% | 9.96% | 15.73% | -9.46% | 42.53% | 26.38% |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 1.29% | 79.09% | -6.86% | -33.22% | -61.6% | 76.68% |
For the past year Upland Software Inc. was less bullish than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Summary
Upland Software Inc. beats Gridsum Holding Inc. on 6 of the 10 factors.
Upland Software, Inc. provides cloud-based enterprise work management software in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The company offers a family of software applications under the Upland brand in the areas of information technology, process excellence and operations, finance, professional services, and marketing. Its software applications address enterprise work challenges in various categories, including program and portfolio management, professional services automation, IT financial management, enterprise secure document capture and fax, workflow automation and enterprise content management, supply chain visibility and collaboration, and digital engagement management. The company sells its products through a direct sales organization, as well as through an indirect sales organization that sells to distributors and value-added resellers. It serves customers in various industries, including financial services, retail, technology, manufacturing, education, consumer goods, media and telecommunications, government, food and beverage, healthcare and life sciences, chemicals, and travel and hospitality. The company was formerly known as Silverback Enterprise Group, Inc. and changed its name to Upland Software, Inc. in November 2013. Upland Software, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. Upland Software, Inc. is a subsidiary of Silverback Enterprise Group 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.
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