Contrasting Aduro Clean Technologies (ADUR) and Its Peers

Aduro Clean Technologies (NASDAQ:ADUR) is one of 36 publicly-traded companies in the “Chemicals & allied products” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Aduro Clean Technologies to related companies based on the strength of its profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.

Profitability

This table compares Aduro Clean Technologies and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Aduro Clean Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A
Aduro Clean Technologies Competitors	-819.73%	-9.90%	-6.92%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

68.4% of shares of all “Chemicals & allied products” companies are held by institutional investors. 9.1% of shares of all “Chemicals & allied products” companies are held 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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Aduro Clean Technologies and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Aduro Clean Technologies	0	0	1	0	3.00
Aduro Clean Technologies Competitors	153	1463	1677	50	2.49

Aduro Clean Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $48.00, indicating a potential upside of 483.23%. As a group, “Chemicals & allied products” companies have a potential upside of 14.11%. Given Aduro Clean Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Aduro Clean Technologies is more favorable than its competitors.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Aduro Clean Technologies and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Aduro Clean Technologies	$258,792.00	N/A	-32.92
Aduro Clean Technologies Competitors	$6.39 billion	$164.80 million	19.38

Aduro Clean Technologies’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Aduro Clean Technologies. Aduro Clean Technologies 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.

Summary

Aduro Clean Technologies beats its competitors on 6 of the 11 factors compared.

About Aduro Clean Technologies

Aduro Clean Technologies is a developer of patented water-based technologies to chemically recycle waste plastics; convert heavy crude and bitumen into lighter, more valuable oil and transform renewable oils into higher-value fuels or renewable chemicals. Aduro Clean Technologies is based in LONDON, Ontario.