Head to Head Review: Rogers (NYSE:ROG) vs. Ouster (NASDAQ:OUST)

Ouster (NASDAQ:OUST) and Rogers (NYSE:ROG) are both mid-cap technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, dividends and profitability.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Ouster and Rogers”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ouster	$169.38 million	12.10	-$60.38 million	($0.86)	-33.06
Rogers	$810.80 million	2.94	-$61.80 million	$1.75	76.13

Ouster has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Rogers. Ouster is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rogers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

31.5% of Ouster shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Rogers shares are held by institutional investors. 5.7% of Ouster shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Rogers shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Ouster and Rogers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ouster	-26.02%	-17.49%	-12.97%
Rogers	3.75%	5.17%	4.31%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Ouster and Rogers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ouster	1	1	6	0	2.62
Rogers	0	2	1	1	2.75

Ouster presently has a consensus price target of $54.67, indicating a potential upside of 92.29%. Rogers has a consensus price target of $225.00, indicating a potential upside of 68.89%. Given Ouster’s higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Ouster is more favorable than Rogers.

Volatility and Risk

Ouster has a beta of 3.23, indicating that its stock price is 223% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rogers has a beta of 0.43, indicating that its stock price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Rogers beats Ouster on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Ouster

Ouster, Inc. provides lidar sensors for the automotive, industrial, robotics, and smart infrastructure industries in Americas, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Its products include high-resolution scanning and solid-state digital lidar sensors, analog lidar sensors, and software solutions. The company offers Ouster Sensor, a scanning sensor; and Digital Flash, a solid-state flash sensor. It also provides surround-view lidar sensors, which include Ouster Gemini, a perception platform for smart infrastructure deployments; and Blue City, a Gemini-powered solution for traffic operations, planning, and safety. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

About Rogers

Rogers Corporation engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of engineered materials and components worldwide. It operates through Advanced Electronics Solutions (AES), Elastomeric Material Solutions (EMS), and Other segments. The AES segment offers circuit materials, ceramic substrate materials, busbars, and cooling solutions for applications in electric and hybrid electric vehicles (EV/HEV), wireless infrastructure, automotive, renewable energy, aerospace and defense, mass transit, industrial, connected devices, and wired infrastructure. This segment sells its products under the curamik, ROLINX, RO4000, RO3000, RT/duroid, CLTE Series, TMM, AD Series, DiClad, CuClad Series, Kappa, COOLSPAN, TC Series, IsoClad, MAGTREX, IM, 2929 Bondply, SpeedWave Prepreg, RO4400/RO4400T, and Radix names. The EMS segment provides engineered material solutions, including polyurethane and silicone materials used in cushioning, gasketing, sealing, and vibration management applications; customized silicones used in flex heater and semiconductor thermal applications; and polytetrafluoroethylene and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene materials used in wire and cable protection, electrical insulation, conduction and shielding, hose and belt protection, vibration management, cushioning, gasketing and sealing, and venting applications. This segment sells its products under the PORON, BISCO, DeWAL, ARLON, eSorba, XRD, Silicone Engineering, and R/bak names. The Other segment provides elastomer components; and elastomer floats for level sensing in fuel tanks, motors, and storage tanks for applications in the general industrial and automotive markets under the ENDUR and NITROPHYL names. The company was founded in 1832 and is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona.