Hesai Group Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Unaudited Financial Results
Quarterly net revenues were RMB1,000.5 million (US$143.1 million) 1
Quarterly lidar shipments were 631,095 units
Quarterly net income was RMB153.2 million (US$21.9 million)
Full year 2025 net revenues were RMB3,027.6 million (US$432.9 million)
Full year 2025 lidar shipments were 1,620,406 units
Full year 2025 net income was RMB435.9 million (US$62.3 million)
SHANGHAI, China, March 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hesai Group (“Hesai” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: HSAI; HKEX: 2525), the global leader in three-dimensional light detection and ranging (lidar) solutions, today announced its unaudited financial results for the three months and full year ended December 31, 2025.
Management Remarks
“2025 was a landmark year as Hesai became the first lidar company to achieve full-year GAAP profitability, while also ranking No.1 in 2025 with over 40% share of the long-range automotive lidar market, according to Gasgoo,” said Dr. Yifan “David” Li, Hesai’s Co-Founder and CEO. “As lidar emerges as the ‘invisible airbag’ for ADAS safety, we have secured design wins with all top ten Chinese OEMs, expanded into the sub-RMB100,000 mass market, captured the multi-lidar L3 inflection point, and accelerated global expansion through partnerships with NVIDIA and others. These milestones are structurally increasing lidar content per vehicle and broadening our total addressable market. Beyond automotive, substantial opportunities are also opening up, where Hesai ranked No.1 across major robotics submarkets, such as humanoid and quadruped robots, robotaxis, robovans, and robotic lawn mowers, according to GGII, Yole Group, and Frost & Sullivan. To fully capitalize on the surging demand across both ADAS and Robotics, we are scaling our annual production capacity to over 4 million units in 2026.”
Dr. Li continued, “As the AI-driven Fourth Industrial Revolution accelerates, Hesai is positioning to become the key enabler of Physical AI—digitizing the real world, redefining how humans and robotics perceive and act. Over the coming months, we will launch new flagship products, each targeting an addressable market worth trillions of RMB, bringing this vision to life and laying the groundwork for our next decade of growth.”
“2025 marked a significant milestone for us in both the scale and quality of our financial performance,” said Mr. Andrew Fan, Hesai’s CFO. “We delivered record net revenues of over RMB3 billion (US$433 million), up 46% year-over-year, while tripling total shipments to over 1.6 million units. Importantly, we also achieved industry-first full-year GAAP net income of RMB436 million (US$62 million) and non-GAAP net income 2 of RMB551 million (US$79 million) in 2025, driven by robust revenue growth, disciplined cost management, and improved operating leverage through AI-enabled efficiency gains across R&D, manufacturing, and operations. We have also delivered GAAP net income for three consecutive quarters and non-GAAP net income for five consecutive quarters. Alongside this, we also recorded three consecutive years of positive operating cash flow, while our net assets grew to around RMB9 billion (US$1.3 billion).”
Mr. Fan added, “2026 marks a bold new chapter for Hesai. We are raising our outlook for lidar shipments to 3 to 3.5 million units, and will soon launch breakthrough new products that unlock future opportunities, and further advance our vision to empower robotics and elevate lives.”
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1 All translations from RMB to USD for the fourth quarter and full year of 2025 were made at the exchange rate of RMB6.9931 to US$1.00, the exchange rate on December 31, 2025, set forth in the H.10 statistical release of the Federal Reserve Board.
2 See “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” and “Unaudited Reconciliation of GAAP and Non-GAAP Results” included in this release for further details.
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3 Including patents granted and pending patent applications.
Hesai Announces Favorable Resolution of IP Dispute and Reaffirms Its Commitment to Innovation and R&D
On September 15, 2025, the arbitral tribunal issued a confidential final decision confirming its interim decision and awarding the Company approximately US$6.4 million in costs and fees, which the Company received from Ouster during the fourth quarter of 2025.
Operational Highlights
Financial Highlights for the Fourth Quarter of 2025
(in RMB millions, except for per ordinary share data and percentage)
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4 Cash reserve represents cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, short-term investments and long-term time bank deposits.
Financial Highlights for the Full Year of 2025
(in RMB millions, except for per ordinary share data and percentage)
Business Outlook
For the first quarter of 2026, the Company expects net revenues to be between RMB650 million (US$93 million) and RMB700 million (US$100 million), representing a year-over-year increase of approximately 24% to 33%.
The above outlook is based on current market conditions and reflects the Company’s preliminary estimates of market and operating conditions and customer demand, which are all subject to change.
Conference Call
The Company’s management will host an earnings conference call at 8:00 AM U.S. Eastern Time on March 24, 2026 (8:00 PM Beijing/Hong Kong Time on March 24, 2026).
For participants who wish to join the call by phone, please access the link provided below to complete the pre-registration process and dial in 5 minutes prior to the scheduled call start time. Upon registration, each participant will receive dial-in details to join the conference call.
Additionally, a live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available on the Company’s investor relations website at https://investor.hesaitech.com.
A replay of the conference call will be accessible approximately an hour after the conclusion of the call until March 31, 2026, by dialing the following telephone numbers:
About Hesai
Hesai Technology (Nasdaq: HSAI; HKEX: 2525) is a global leader in lidar solutions. The Company’s lidar products enable a broad spectrum of applications including passenger and commercial vehicles (“ADAS”), as well as autonomous driving vehicles and robotics and other non-automotive applications such as last-mile delivery robots and AGVs (“Robotics”). Hesai seamlessly integrates its in-house manufacturing process with lidar R&D and design, enabling rapid product iteration while ensuring high performance, high quality and affordability. The Company’s commercially validated solutions are backed by superior R&D capabilities across optics, mechanics, and electronics. Hesai has established offices in Shanghai, Palo Alto and Stuttgart, with customers spanning more than 40 countries.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
To supplement Hesai’s consolidated financial results presented in accordance with GAAP, Hesai uses the following measures defined as non-GAAP financial measures by the SEC: income/loss from operation excluding share-based compensation expenses, net profit/loss excluding share-based compensation expenses, net profit/loss attributable to ordinary shareholders excluding share-based compensation, and per ordinary share net income/loss attributable to ordinary shareholders excluding share-based compensation. The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP. For more information on these non-GAAP financial measures, please see the tables captioned “Unaudited Reconciliations of GAAP and Non-GAAP Results” set forth at the end of this release.
Hesai believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide meaningful supplemental information regarding its performance and liquidity by excluding share-based compensation expenses that may not be indicative of its operating performance from a cash perspective. Hesai believes that both management and investors benefit from referring to these non-GAAP financial measures in assessing its performance and when planning and forecasting future periods. These non-GAAP financial measures also facilitate management’s internal comparisons to Hesai’s historical performance and liquidity. Hesai believes these non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors in allowing for greater transparency with respect to supplemental information used by management in its financial and operational decision making. A limitation of using these non-GAAP financial measures is that they exclude share-based compensation expenses that have been and will continue to be for the foreseeable future a significant recurring expense in our business. Management compensates for these limitations by providing specific information regarding the GAAP amounts excluded from each non-GAAP financial measure. The accompanying tables have more details on the reconciliations between GAAP financial measures that are most directly comparable to non-GAAP financial measures.
Exchange Rate Information
This announcement contains translations of certain RMB amounts into U.S. dollars at a specified rate solely for the convenience of the reader. Unless otherwise noted, all translations from RMB to U.S. dollars and from U.S. dollars to RMB are made at a rate of RMB6.9931 to US$1.00, the exchange rate on December 31, 2025, set forth in the H.10 statistical release of the Federal Reserve Board. The Company makes no representation that the RMB or U.S. dollars amounts referred could be converted into U.S. dollars or RMB, as the case may be, at any particular rate or at all.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the “safe harbor” provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “will,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “aims,” “future,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimates,” “confident,” “potential,” “continue” or other similar expressions. Among other things, the business outlook and quotations from management in this announcement, as well as the Company’s strategic and operational plans, contain forward-looking statements. The Company may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including but not limited to statements about the Company’s beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: the Company’s goals and strategies; the Company’s future business development, financial condition and results of operations; expected changes in the Company’s revenues, costs or expenditures; the trends in, expected growth and the market size of the ADAS and Robotics industries; the market for and adoption of lidar and related technology; the Company’s ability to produce high-quality products with wide market acceptance; the success of the Company’s customers in developing and commercializing products using its solutions, and the market acceptance of those products; the Company’s ability to introduce new products that meet its customers’ requirement; the Company’s expectations regarding the effectiveness of its marketing initiatives and the relationship with its third-party partners; competition in the Company’s industry; the Company’s ability to recruit and retain qualified personnel; relevant government policies and regulations relating to the Company’s industry; the Company’s ability to protect its systems and infrastructures from cyber-attacks; general economic and business conditions globally and in China; and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the Company’s filings with the SEC. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of this press release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law. In the event of any inconsistency between the English version of this earnings release and its Chinese translation, the English version of this document shall prevail unless otherwise stated.
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Hesai Group
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Email: ir@hesaitech.com
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Source: Hesai Group