Head-To-Head Comparison: Hesai Group (NASDAQ:HSAI) versus Cooper-Standard (NYSE:CPS)

Hesai Group (NASDAQ:HSAI) and Cooper-Standard (NYSE:CPS) are both auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Hesai Group and Cooper-Standard”s 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.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current recommendations 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 probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Hesai Group is more favorable than Cooper-Standard.

Risk & Volatility

Hesai Group has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cooper-Standard has a beta of 1.94, meaning that its share price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and 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 endowments, large money managers 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%

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.