--- title: "Weekly Recap | Hesai -22.42%, consensus target above spot" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/302177062.md" description: "Hesai dropped 22.42% this week to close at $12.42, while the S&P 500 slipped 1.95%, leaving the stock about 20.47 percentage points behind the benchmark. The week was a one-way downward grind: it opened Monday at $15.76, right around the weekly high of $15.775, and never returned to that level. Tuesday through Thursday closed lower each day, and Friday printed the low of $12.36 before settling at $12.42. That marks a fresh 60-session range low. Weekly amplitude reached 21." datetime: "2026-10-17T08:40:35.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/302177062.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/302177062.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/302177062.md) generator: "portal-rs" --- # Weekly Recap | Hesai -22.42%, consensus target above spot ## The Week Hesai dropped 22.42% this week to close at $12.42, while the S&P 500 slipped 1.95%, leaving the stock about 20.47 percentage points behind the benchmark. The week was a one-way downward grind: it opened Monday at $15.76, right around the weekly high of $15.775, and never returned to that level. Tuesday through Thursday closed lower each day, and Friday printed the low of $12.36 before settling at $12.42. That marks a fresh 60-session range low. Weekly amplitude reached 21.67%, with total volume of 9.19m shares and average daily volume of 1.84m, roughly 47.22% above the median. ## Key Events The week’s main story was the launch of Kosmo, Hesai’s 3D world data engine. The company unveiled the product after Wednesday’s close, and coverage followed on Thursday and Friday. Kosmo is positioned as data infrastructure for physical AI, converting real-world scenes into 3D assets for robot training and spatial intelligence. On the same front, Morgan Stanley initiated coverage on rival RoboSense with an Overweight rating and trimmed its price target on Hesai to $27, while reaffirming a Buy rating on Hesai Group Class B shares. The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index fell more than 0.5% on Tuesday, with Hesai down 5.22%, and the stock hit a 12-month low on Wednesday. Industry notes from Goldman Sachs and China Merchants Securities International put Hesai at the intersection of AI applications and overseas auto expansion, with the product launch and broker actions framing the event flow. ## Analyst Ratings As of 15 October, 19 firms cover Hesai: 14 rate it Buy and 5 rate it Overweight, with no Hold, Underweight or Sell ratings. The consensus recommendation is Strong Buy, and the consensus target price is $28.02, about 125.58% above the latest price of $12.42. The target range is wide, from $19.414 at the low end to $36.261 at the high end, a gap of roughly $16.85. Within the auto parts and equipment industry, Hesai ranks 4th in its rating group, with more covering firms than the industry median of 9. ## The Week Ahead No Hesai-specific earnings or announcements appear on the calendar next week. The macro schedule leans to US housing and crude inventories: the NAHB Housing Market Index on Monday 19 October, with a prior of 32 and a forecast of 32; annualised housing starts on Tuesday 20 October, with a prior of 1.275m and a forecast of 1.305m; and building permits from Tuesday 20 October, with a prior of 1.403m and a forecast of 1.395m. EIA weekly crude and Cushing inventory reports follow on Wednesday 21 October. These hold limited direct relevance for Hesai. The bigger watch item is how the market prices the spatial-intelligence angle after the Kosmo launch, and whether the stock can find support near the $12.36 range low. ## In Short Valuation and ratings lean positive for Hesai: a price-to-book of 1.48x, a consensus target 125.58% above spot, and 19 of 19 covering firms at Buy or Overweight. The latest session’s fund flow shows a split, with large and medium orders net buyers and small orders net sellers, while the stock itself kept setting new range lows through the week. The tension between a broadly constructive rating picture and a one-way slide in price points to what comes next: whether Kosmo-related narratives get a firmer market price, and whether $12.36 can hold as a new floor. *This article is generated by LongbridgeAI from market data, for information only and not investment advice.* ### Related Stocks - [HSAI.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/HSAI.US.md) ## Related News & Research - [October 2026's Leading Growth Companies With Strong Insider Ownership](https://longbridge.com/en/news/302600548.md) - [Teaching Robots the Shape of Reality: Hesai’s Kosmo turns real places into 3D assets](https://longbridge.com/en/news/302071753.md) - [Bank of China Reaffirms Their Buy Rating on Hesai Group Class B (2525)](https://longbridge.com/en/news/302948828.md) - [US Cash Grains-Soy basis steady-weaker after active week of harvest](https://longbridge.com/en/news/302935740.md) - [AI fever ignites a boom in thematic ETFs as fund managers hunt for their next big hit](https://longbridge.com/en/news/302963080.md) --- > **Disclaimer: This article is for reference only and does not constitute any investment advice.**