HSAI vs. DNOW, CRCT, KRNT, CECO, EFXT, SOI, AIRJ, OUST, GENC, and TPIC
Should you be buying Hesai Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hesai Group include DNOW (DNOW), Cricut (CRCT), Kornit Digital (KRNT), CECO Environmental (CECO), Enerflex (EFXT), Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure (SOI), Montana Technologies (AIRJ), Ouster (OUST), Gencor Industries (GENC), and TPI Composites (TPIC). These companies are all part of the "machinery" industry.
Hesai Group (NASDAQ:HSAI) and DNOW (NYSE:DNOW) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
DNOW has a net margin of 9.70% compared to Hesai Group's net margin of -25.30%. DNOW's return on equity of 9.93% beat Hesai Group's return on equity.
DNOW has a consensus target price of $15.50, suggesting a potential upside of 30.58%. Given DNOW's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe DNOW is more favorable than Hesai Group.
48.5% of Hesai Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.6% of DNOW shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of DNOW shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Hesai Group has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DNOW has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Hesai Group had 3 more articles in the media than DNOW. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Hesai Group and 0 mentions for DNOW. DNOW's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Hesai Group's score of 0.33 indicating that DNOW is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DNOW received 303 more outperform votes than Hesai Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Hesai Group an outperform vote while only 52.66% of users gave DNOW an outperform vote.
DNOW has higher revenue and earnings than Hesai Group. Hesai Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DNOW, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
DNOW beats Hesai Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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