OUST vs. HSAI, TAYD, RR, PDYN, EKSO, AZ, KITT, SYM, NDSN, and RRX
Should you be buying Ouster stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ouster include Hesai Group (HSAI), Taylor Devices (TAYD), Richtech Robotics (RR), Palladyne AI (PDYN), Ekso Bionics (EKSO), A2Z Smart Technologies (AZ), Nauticus Robotics (KITT), Symbotic (SYM), Nordson (NDSN), and Regal Rexnord (RRX). These companies are all part of the "general industrial machinery," industry.
Ouster (NYSE:OUST) and Hesai Group (NASDAQ:HSAI) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
Ouster received 22 more outperform votes than Hesai Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Hesai Group an outperform vote while only 63.41% of users gave Ouster an outperform vote.
31.5% of Ouster shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.5% of Hesai Group shares are held by institutional investors. 7.8% of Ouster shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ouster presently has a consensus target price of $12.10, suggesting a potential upside of 3.42%. Given Ouster's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Ouster is more favorable than Hesai Group.
Hesai Group has higher revenue and earnings than Ouster. Hesai Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ouster, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hesai Group has a net margin of -25.68% compared to Ouster's net margin of -239.89%. Hesai Group's return on equity of -9.83% beat Ouster's return on equity.
Ouster has a beta of 2.4, indicating that its stock price is 140% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hesai Group has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ouster had 5 more articles in the media than Hesai Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Ouster and 2 mentions for Hesai Group. Hesai Group's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Ouster's score of 0.21 indicating that Hesai Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Hesai Group beats Ouster on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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