As Application Software companies, Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:GSUM) and Xunlei Limited (NASDAQ:XNET) are our subject to contrast. And more specifically their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings and valuation, institutional ownership.
Valuation and Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 3 | 0.00 | N/A | -2.48 | 0.00 |
| Xunlei Limited | 3 | 0.83 | N/A | -0.61 | 0.00 |
Table 1 shows top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation of the two companies.
Profitability
Table 2 hightlights the net margins, return on equity and return on assets of the two companies.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | 0.00% | -127.4% | -42.8% |
| Xunlei Limited | 0.00% | -10.4% | -8% |
Liquidity
The Current Ratio of Gridsum Holding Inc. is 0.9 while its Quick Ratio stands at 0.9. The Current Ratio of rival Xunlei Limited is 3.4 and its Quick Ratio is has 3.2. Xunlei Limited is better equipped to clear short and long-term obligations than Gridsum Holding Inc.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
Gridsum Holding Inc. and Xunlei Limited has shares owned by institutional investors as follows: 36.4% and 18.3%. Insiders owned roughly 5.3% of Gridsum Holding Inc.’s shares. Insiders Competitively, owned 0.39% of Xunlei Limited 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) | |
| Gridsum Holding Inc. | -6.17% | 10.06% | 11.11% | -26.78% | -43.37% | 56.95% |
| Xunlei Limited | -5.01% | -6.4% | -5.57% | -50.99% | -75.86% | -5.29% |
For the past year Gridsum Holding Inc. had bullish trend while Xunlei Limited had bearish trend.
Summary
Xunlei Limited beats on 6 of the 7 factors Gridsum Holding 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.
Xunlei Limited, a cloud-based acceleration technology company, operates an Internet platform for digital media content in the People’s Republic of China. The companyÂ’s platform is based on cloud computing that enables users to access, manage, and consume digital media content. It offers Xunlei Accelerator, which enables users to accelerate digital transmission over the Internet; and cloud acceleration subscription services that offer users premium services through various products, such as Green Channel and Offline Accelerator. The company also provides Mobile Xunlei, a mobile application that allows users to search, download, and consume digital media content on their mobile devices; Xunlei Media Player, which supports online and offline play of digital media content, as well as simultaneous play of digital media content while it is being transmitted by Xunlei Accelerator; online games, including Web games and MMOGs through its gaming platform; online advertising services; and other Internet value-added services. As of December 2016, its platform had approximately 152 million monthly unique visitors. The company was formerly known as Giganology Limited and changed its name to Xunlei Limited in January 2011. Xunlei Limited was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, the People’s Republic of China.
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