Aurora Innovation (AUR) & The Competition Critical Comparison

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Aurora Innovation and its competitors, as reported 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 currently has a consensus price target 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 possible upside, analysts plainly believe Aurora Innovation is more favorable than its competitors.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Aurora Innovation and its competitors gross 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 competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Aurora Innovation. Aurora Innovation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Volatility & Risk

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 competitors have a beta of 1.26, suggesting that their average stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Aurora Innovation and its competitors’ 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%

Insider and 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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

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

Aurora Innovation Company Profile

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.