Hesai Group (NASDAQ:HSAI – Get Free Report) and Syntec Optics (NASDAQ:OPTX – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Risk and Volatility
Hesai Group has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Syntec Optics has a beta of -0.76, indicating that its share price is 176% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Hesai Group and Syntec Optics’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Hesai Group | 14.77% | 5.52% | 4.47% |
| Syntec Optics | -8.26% | -16.50% | -8.68% |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
48.5% of Hesai Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Syntec Optics shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Hesai Group and Syntec Optics, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Hesai Group | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3.00 |
| Syntec Optics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
Hesai Group currently has a consensus target price of $23.50, indicating a potential upside of 92.94%. Given Hesai Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Hesai Group is more favorable than Syntec Optics.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Hesai Group and Syntec Optics”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Hesai Group | $432.94 million | 4.42 | $62.33 million | $0.41 | 29.71 |
| Syntec Optics | $29.24 million | 8.66 | -$1.79 million | ($0.06) | -104.83 |
Hesai Group has higher revenue and earnings than Syntec Optics. Syntec Optics 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 Syntec Optics on 13 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 Syntec Optics
Syntec Optics Holdings, Inc. manufactures and supplies integrated optics for biomedical, defense and military, consumer, and other applications. It offers camera modules; tool design, design for manufacturing, optical and opto-mechanical design, and moldflow analysis; SPDT optics, such as freedom optics, microlens arrays, spheres and aspheres, diffractives, SPDT materials, and optical tooling; replicative molding, that includes polymer and glass molding, and molded production materials; thin film coating and coating curve materials; and precision machining and precision machining materials. The company also provides clean room assembly, such as opto mechanical, opto electronic, and integrated photonics; infrared optics, microlens arrays, software development, and optical metrology, and catalog optics services. In addition, it offers driverless cars, integrated photonics, robotics, sensors, VR and AR, machine vision, facial imagining, heads up display, finger print scanners, and laser scanners technology for consumers; night vision goggles, missile laser guides, biometrics, infrared and thermal imaging, ordnance optics, head mounted displays, 2D and 3D scanners, humvee lighting , laser targeting, protective domes and windows, and lidar technologies for defense and miliary; and medical diagnostic, microfluidics, surgical components and systems, and medical sensing technology for medical sectors. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Rochester, New York.
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