Contrasting Cooper-Standard (NYSE:CPS) and Mobileye Global (NASDAQ:MBLY)

Mobileye Global (NASDAQ:MBLY) and Cooper-Standard (NYSE:CPS) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, valuation and risk.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Mobileye Global and Cooper-Standard”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Mobileye Global	$1.89 billion	3.29	-$392.00 million	($4.99)	-1.49
Cooper-Standard	$91.38 billion	0.00	-$4.16 million	($3.14)	-6.97

Cooper-Standard has higher revenue and earnings than Mobileye Global. Cooper-Standard is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mobileye Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Mobileye Global and Cooper-Standard’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Mobileye Global	-201.49%	0.70%	0.67%
Cooper-Standard	-2.03%	N/A	-2.31%

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Mobileye Global and Cooper-Standard, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Mobileye Global	2	10	9	2	2.48
Cooper-Standard	1	2	1	0	2.00

Mobileye Global presently has a consensus target price of $11.91, indicating a potential upside of 60.51%. Cooper-Standard has a consensus target price of $48.33, indicating a potential upside of 120.89%. Given Cooper-Standard’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Cooper-Standard is more favorable than Mobileye Global.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

13.3% of Mobileye Global shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.1% of Cooper-Standard shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.0% of Mobileye Global shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.2% of Cooper-Standard shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Risk and Volatility

Mobileye Global has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cooper-Standard has a beta of 2.05, suggesting that its share price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Mobileye Global beats Cooper-Standard on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Mobileye Global

Mobileye Global Inc. develops and deploys advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving technologies and solutions worldwide. The company operates through Mobileye and Other segments. It offers Driver Assist comprising ADAS and autonomous vehicle solutions that covers safety features, such as real-time detection of road users, geometry, semantics, and markings to provide safety alerts and emergency interventions; Cloud-Enhanced Driver Assist, a solution for drivers with interpretations of a scene in real-time; Mobileye SuperVision Lite, a navigation and assisted driving solution; and Mobileye SuperVision, an operational point-to-point assisted driving navigation solution on various road types and includes cloud-based enhancements, such as road experience management. The company also provides Mobileye Chauffeur, a first-generation solution for eyes-off/hands-off driving with a human driver still in the driver’s seat; Mobileye Drive, a self-driving system comprising of radar and lidar subsystems, as well as collision avoidance systems, including Mobileye 8 Connect for light and medium-duty vehicles, and Mobileye Shield+ for large vehicles. It serves original equipment manufacturers. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. Mobileye Global Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Intel Overseas Funding Corporation.

About Cooper-Standard

Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc., through its subsidiary, Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc., manufactures and sells sealing, fuel and brake delivery, and fluid transfer systems in the United States, Mexico, China, Poland, Canada, Germany, France, and internationally. The company offers sealing systems, including dynamic seals, static seals, encapsulated glasses, textured surfaces with cloth appearance, obstacle detection sensor systems, FlushSeal systems, variable extrusions, specialty sealing products, stainless steel trims, and frameless systems. It also provides fuel and brake delivery systems comprising chassis and tank fuel lines and bundles, metallic brake lines and bundles, quick connects, low oligomer multi-layer convoluted tubes, brake jounce lines, direct injection and port fuel rails, MagAlloy break tube coating, and ArmorTube brake tube coating. In addition, the company offers fluid transfer systems, such as heater/coolant hoses, turbo charger hoses, charged air cooler ducts/assemblies, diesel particulate filter lines, secondary air hoses, degas tanks and deaerators, brake and clutch hoses, air intake and discharge systems, transmission oil cooling hoses, high temperature MLTs, and multilayer tubing for glycol thermal management. Its products are primarily used in passenger vehicles and light trucks that are manufactured by automotive original equipment manufacturers and replacement markets. Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc. was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Northville, Michigan.