How Worried Should Investors Be About Hesai Group ADR (HSAI)

Hesai Group ADR (NASDAQ:HSAI) does about 1.81M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 2431214 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 993.89M USD. Its current market price is $10.20, marking a decrease of -9.17% compared to the previous close of $11.23. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $11.86 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $3.28.

Hesai Group ADR (HSAI) has a 20-day trading average at $8.04 and the current price is -14.00% off the 52-week high compared with 210.98% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $5.99 and its 200-day simple moving average is $4.92. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 10.31%, which increases to 12.69% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 67.67 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $8.99, suggesting that the stock has a potential downside of -13.46% over the period.

FactSet Research has provided data showing that 6 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 0 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 4 analysts have rated it as a buy and 2 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Strong Buy the stock.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on September 26, 2023 when Citigroup initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $12.90. Goldman downgraded its price target at $25-$12.40.

The current price level is 26.81%, 70.24%, and 107.49% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the HSAI price moving below the 50-day SMA on current market day. Hesai Group ADR (HSAI) stock is down -5.20% over the week and 142.28% over the past month. Its price is 14.48% year-to-date and 7.59% over the past year.

The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 1.39 and -0.81 for whole year. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $736.95M.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to shrink -13.46 percent from here.

Outstanding shares total 97.44M with insiders holding 15.41% of the shares and institutional holders owning 41.03% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of -8.60% and return on equity of -9.36%. The forward price to earnings ratio is 38.62. The beta has a value of 2.32. Price to book ratio is 2.27 and price to sales ratio is 3.73.