AUR vs. KD, HGTY, DNA, KIND, PSN, EXPO, EXLS, DNB, MARA, and TNET
Should you be buying Aurora Innovation stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aurora Innovation include Kyndryl (KD), Hagerty (HGTY), Ginkgo Bioworks (DNA), Nextdoor (KIND), Parsons (PSN), Exponent (EXPO), ExlService (EXLS), Dun & Bradstreet (DNB), Marathon Digital (MARA), and TriNet Group (TNET).
Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ:AUR) and Kyndryl (NYSE:KD) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.
44.7% of Aurora Innovation shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.5% of Kyndryl shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.8% of Aurora Innovation shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Kyndryl shares are owned by 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.
In the previous week, Kyndryl had 5 more articles in the media than Aurora Innovation. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Kyndryl and 9 mentions for Aurora Innovation. Aurora Innovation's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Kyndryl's score of 0.59 indicating that Aurora Innovation is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Aurora Innovation has a beta of 2.85, meaning that its share price is 185% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kyndryl has a beta of 1.57, meaning that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Aurora Innovation presently has a consensus target price of $3.75, indicating a potential upside of 36.86%. Kyndryl has a consensus target price of $28.50, indicating a potential upside of 2.63%. Given Aurora Innovation's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Aurora Innovation is more favorable than Kyndryl.
Aurora Innovation has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Kyndryl's net margin of -2.12%. Kyndryl's return on equity of -4.01% beat Aurora Innovation's return on equity.
Kyndryl has higher revenue and earnings than Aurora Innovation. Kyndryl is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aurora Innovation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kyndryl received 1 more outperform votes than Aurora Innovation when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 41.18% of users gave Kyndryl an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Aurora Innovation an outperform vote.
Summary
Kyndryl beats Aurora Innovation on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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