Financial Analysis: Pony AI (PONY) versus Its Peers

Pony AI (NASDAQ:PONY) is one of 14 publicly-traded companies in the “TRANS – EQP&LSNG” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare Pony AI to similar businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, dividends and earnings.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

86.4% of shares of all “TRANS – EQP&LSNG” companies are owned by institutional investors. 10.7% of shares of all “TRANS – EQP&LSNG” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Pony AI and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pony AI	1	0	7	1	2.89
Pony AI Competitors	132	577	1004	66	2.56

Pony AI presently has a consensus target price of $20.42, suggesting a potential upside of 45.44%. As a group, “TRANS – EQP&LSNG” companies have a potential upside of 12.05%. Given Pony AI’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Pony AI is more favorable than its peers.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Pony AI and its peers revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pony AI	$75.03 million	-$274.12 million	-11.23
Pony AI Competitors	$3.78 billion	$360.72 million	4.83

Pony AI’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Pony AI. Pony AI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Pony AI and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pony AI	N/A	N/A	N/A
Pony AI Competitors	10.91%	4.90%	2.78%

Summary

Pony AI peers beat Pony AI on 8 of the 12 factors compared.

About Pony AI

Pony AI Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the autonomous mobility principally in the People’s Republic of China and the United States. The company provides robotruck services, such as transportation services to the logistics platforms. Pony AI Inc. is based in Guangzhou, the People’s Republic of China.