Financial Contrast: Aurora Innovation (AUR) and Its Peers

Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ:AUR) is one of 956 public companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it contrast to its rivals? We will compare Aurora Innovation to related companies based on the strength of its earnings, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for Aurora Innovation and its rivals, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Aurora Innovation	3	2	8	0	2.38
Aurora Innovation Competitors	5717	21469	44728	1489	2.57

Aurora Innovation presently has a consensus target price of $13.22, indicating a potential upside of 158.25%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 25.61%. Given Aurora Innovation’s higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Aurora Innovation is more favorable than its rivals.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

44.7% of Aurora Innovation shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.1% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by institutional investors. 8.5% of Aurora Innovation shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.7% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Aurora Innovation and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Aurora Innovation	-18,000.00%	-43.94%	-39.85%
Aurora Innovation Competitors	-630.58%	17.61%	-8.96%

Risk and Volatility

Aurora Innovation has a beta of 2.69, suggesting that its stock price is 169% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aurora Innovation’s rivals have a beta of 1.26, suggesting that their average stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Aurora Innovation and its rivals revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Aurora Innovation	$3.00 million	-$816.00 million	-10.89
Aurora Innovation Competitors	$1.83 billion	$385.04 million	112.60

Aurora Innovation’s rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Aurora Innovation. Aurora Innovation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Aurora Innovation rivals beat Aurora Innovation on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

About Aurora Innovation

Aurora Innovation, Inc. operates as a self-driving technology company in the United States. It focuses on developing Aurora Driver, a platform that brings a suite of self-driving hardware, software, and data services together to adapt and interoperate vehicles. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.