AUR vs. KD, HGTY, PSN, RCM, MMS, FOUR, TNET, FCFS, EXLS, and MARA
Should you be buying Aurora Innovation stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aurora Innovation include Kyndryl (KD), Hagerty (HGTY), Parsons (PSN), R1 RCM (RCM), Maximus (MMS), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), TriNet Group (TNET), FirstCash (FCFS), ExlService (EXLS), and Marathon Digital (MARA).
Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ:AUR) and Kyndryl (NYSE:KD) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Aurora Innovation has a beta of 2.85, meaning that its stock price is 185% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Kyndryl has a beta of 1.57, meaning that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Kyndryl shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
Aurora Innovation presently has a consensus price target of $3.75, indicating a potential upside of 24.17%. Kyndryl has a consensus price target of $28.50, indicating a potential upside of 8.18%. Given Aurora Innovation's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Aurora Innovation is more favorable than Kyndryl.
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.
In the previous week, Kyndryl had 9 more articles in the media than Aurora Innovation. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Kyndryl and 14 mentions for Aurora Innovation. Aurora Innovation's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Kyndryl's score of 0.58 indicating that Aurora Innovation is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Kyndryl beats Aurora Innovation on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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