Hesai Group (NASDAQ:HSAI – Get Free Report) and Cooper-Standard (NYSE:CPS – Get Free Report) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, dividends, earnings, valuation and institutional ownership.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
48.5% of Hesai Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.1% of Cooper-Standard shares are held by institutional investors. 8.8% of Cooper-Standard shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Profitability
This table compares Hesai Group and Cooper-Standard’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Hesai Group | 15.70% | 8.04% | 5.94% |
| Cooper-Standard | 1.20% | N/A | -0.15% |
Risk & Volatility
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Hesai Group and Cooper-Standard, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Hesai Group | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3.13 |
| Cooper-Standard | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2.25 |
Hesai Group presently has a consensus target price of $30.80, indicating a potential upside of 18.46%. Cooper-Standard has a consensus target price of $39.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.62%. Given Hesai Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Hesai Group is more favorable than Cooper-Standard.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Hesai Group and Cooper-Standard”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Hesai Group | $284.57 million | 12.79 | -$14.02 million | $0.42 | 61.90 |
| Cooper-Standard | $2.73 billion | 0.22 | -$78.75 million | $1.82 | 19.03 |
Hesai Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Cooper-Standard. Cooper-Standard is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hesai Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Hesai Group beats Cooper-Standard on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Hesai Group
Hesai Group, through with its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of three-dimensional light detection and ranging solutions (LiDAR). Its LiDAR products are used in passenger and commercial vehicles with advanced driver assistance systems; autonomous passenger and freight mobility services; and other applications, such as delivery robots, street sweeping robots, and logistics robots in restricted areas. Hesai Group was founded in 2014 and is based in Shanghai, China.
About Cooper-Standard
Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc., through its subsidiary, Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc., manufactures and sells sealing, fuel and brake delivery, and fluid transfer systems in the United States, Mexico, China, Poland, Canada, Germany, France, and internationally. The company offers sealing systems, including dynamic seals, static seals, encapsulated glasses, textured surfaces with cloth appearance, obstacle detection sensor systems, FlushSeal systems, variable extrusions, specialty sealing products, stainless steel trims, and frameless systems. It also provides fuel and brake delivery systems comprising chassis and tank fuel lines and bundles, metallic brake lines and bundles, quick connects, low oligomer multi-layer convoluted tubes, brake jounce lines, direct injection and port fuel rails, MagAlloy break tube coating, and ArmorTube brake tube coating. In addition, the company offers fluid transfer systems, such as heater/coolant hoses, turbo charger hoses, charged air cooler ducts/assemblies, diesel particulate filter lines, secondary air hoses, degas tanks and deaerators, brake and clutch hoses, air intake and discharge systems, transmission oil cooling hoses, high temperature MLTs, and multilayer tubing for glycol thermal management. Its products are primarily used in passenger vehicles and light trucks that are manufactured by automotive original equipment manufacturers and replacement markets. Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc. was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Northville, Michigan.
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