Aurora Innovation (AUR) & Its Peers Financial Contrast

Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ:AUR) is one of 954 publicly-traded companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Aurora Innovation to related companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability and risk.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Aurora Innovation	-13,328.57%	-48.39%	-43.67%
Aurora Innovation Competitors	-612.31%	21.01%	-8.89%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Aurora Innovation and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Aurora Innovation	2	2	8	0	2.50
Aurora Innovation Competitors	5714	21419	44677	1492	2.57

Aurora Innovation currently has a consensus target price of $12.56, indicating a potential upside of 187.97%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 27.80%. Given Aurora Innovation’s higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Aurora Innovation is more favorable than its peers.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

44.7% of Aurora Innovation shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.8% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by institutional investors. 8.5% of Aurora Innovation shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.9% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility and Risk

Aurora Innovation has a beta of 2.69, meaning that its stock price is 169% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aurora Innovation’s peers have a beta of 1.25, meaning that their average stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Aurora Innovation	$3.00 million	-$816.00 million	-9.08
Aurora Innovation Competitors	$1.79 billion	$385.13 million	111.21

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

Summary

Aurora Innovation peers 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.