Gridsum (NASDAQ:GSUM) and Mobileiron (NASDAQ:MOBL) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation and dividends.
Volatility & Risk
Gridsum has a beta of 2.8, meaning that its stock price is 180% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mobileiron has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
29.9% of Gridsum shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.7% of Mobileiron shares are held by institutional investors. 13.5% of Mobileiron shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Gridsum and Mobileiron’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Gridsum | $62.72 million | 1.16 | -$75.82 million | N/A | N/A |
| Mobileiron | $193.19 million | 4.15 | -$43.08 million | ($0.42) | -17.55 |
Mobileiron has higher revenue and earnings than Gridsum.
Profitability
This table compares Gridsum and Mobileiron’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Gridsum | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Mobileiron | -23.43% | -89.20% | -21.78% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Gridsum and Mobileiron, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Gridsum | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| Mobileiron | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2.67 |
Mobileiron has a consensus price target of $9.33, suggesting a potential upside of 26.64%. Given Mobileiron’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Mobileiron is more favorable than Gridsum.
Summary
Mobileiron beats Gridsum on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
About Mobileiron
MobileIron, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides mobile IT platform that enables enterprises to manage and secure mobile applications, content, and devices while offering their employees with device choice, privacy, and a native user experience worldwide. It offers MobileIron security platform, which includes MobileIron unified endpoint management, a comprehensive security platform that provides the fundamental visibility and IT controls to secure, manage, and monitor various corporate or employee-owned mobile devices or desktops that access business-critical data; MobileIron Access to block untrusted devices and apps from accessing cloud services based on security posture and compliance, as well as provide single sign-on and multifactor authentication for applications on the device; and MobileIron Tunnel that provides secure connectivity through a per-app VPN to connect applications to back-end services. The company’s MobileIron security platform also comprises MobileIron Threat Defense to identify zero-day threats on the device, across networks, and within client apps, and then initiates a security response, from notification to remediation of the threat; MobileIron Secure Applications for end-user productivity, such as enterprise app store, secure content, secure email and PIM, remote troubleshooting, and secure browsing applications, as well as MobileIron AppConnect, an SDK and wrapper that third-party developers integrate into their applications to provide security through additional encryption and advanced security controls. It serves various industries, including financial services, government, healthcare, legal, manufacturing, professional services, retail, technology and telecommunications primarily through distributors, resellers, service providers, system vendors, and system integrators. MobileIron, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
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