PLOW vs. HSAI, MLR, EVGO, SMP, HLLY, SHYF, NKLA, CHPT, LAZR, and SLDP
Should you be buying Douglas Dynamics stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Douglas Dynamics include Hesai Group (HSAI), Miller Industries (MLR), EVgo (EVGO), Standard Motor Products (SMP), Holley (HLLY), The Shyft Group (SHYF), Nikola (NKLA), ChargePoint (CHPT), Luminar Technologies (LAZR), and Solid Power (SLDP). These companies are all part of the "auto/tires/trucks" sector.
Hesai Group (NASDAQ:HSAI) and Douglas Dynamics (NYSE:PLOW) are both small-cap auto/tires/trucks companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.
Hesai Group has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Douglas Dynamics has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Douglas Dynamics has a net margin of 4.90% compared to Douglas Dynamics' net margin of -25.38%. Hesai Group's return on equity of 12.95% beat Douglas Dynamics' return on equity.
Douglas Dynamics received 277 more outperform votes than Hesai Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.00% of users gave Hesai Group an outperform vote while only 55.21% of users gave Douglas Dynamics an outperform vote.
48.5% of Hesai Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.9% of Douglas Dynamics shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of Douglas Dynamics shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Douglas Dynamics has a consensus target price of $28.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.42%. Given Hesai Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Douglas Dynamics is more favorable than Hesai Group.
Douglas Dynamics has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Hesai Group. Hesai Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Douglas Dynamics, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Hesai Group had 4 more articles in the media than Douglas Dynamics. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Hesai Group and 4 mentions for Douglas Dynamics. Hesai Group's average media sentiment score of 1.24 beat Douglas Dynamics' score of 0.39 indicating that Douglas Dynamics is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Douglas Dynamics beats Hesai Group on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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