This is therefore a comparing of the dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings and valuation in Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) and MongoDB Inc. (NASDAQ:MDB). The two are both Application Software companies that compete with one another.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | N/A | 0.00 | N/A | -1.20 | 0.00 |
| MongoDB Inc. | 215.74M | 25.88 | 118.10M | -2.31 | 0.00 |
Table 1 highlights Gridsum Holding Inc. and MongoDB Inc.’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Profitability
Table 2 provides us Gridsum Holding Inc. and MongoDB Inc.’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -19.7% | -11.2% |
| MongoDB Inc. | -54.74% | -61.2% | -22% |
Liquidity
Gridsum Holding Inc.’s Current Ratio is 2 while its Quick Ratio is 2. On the competitive side is, MongoDB Inc. which has a 3.4 Current Ratio and a 3.4 Quick Ratio. MongoDB Inc. is better positioned to pay off short and long-term obligations compared to Gridsum Holding Inc.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
Roughly 37.7% of Gridsum Holding Inc. shares are owned by institutional investors while 85% of MongoDB Inc. are owned by institutional investors. 5.3% are Gridsum Holding Inc.’s share owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% are MongoDB Inc.’s share owned by insiders.
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) | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | -9.6% | -27.31% | -32.75% | -38.34% | -55.84% | -57.81% |
| MongoDB Inc. | 0.18% | 1.16% | -0.3% | 54.2% | 211.98% | 179.82% |
For the past year Gridsum Holding Inc. has -57.81% weaker performance while MongoDB Inc. has 179.82% stronger performance.
Summary
On 5 of the 9 factors Gridsum Holding Inc. beats MongoDB 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.
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.
