Aduro Clean Technologies (ADUR) and Its Peers Critical Contrast

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

Insider and Institutional Ownership

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets 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	1462	1676	50	2.49

Aduro Clean Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $50.00, suggesting a potential upside of 400.00%. As a group, “Chemicals & allied products” companies have a potential upside of 16.31%. Given Aduro Clean Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Aduro Clean Technologies is more favorable than its competitors.

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%

Earnings & Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Aduro Clean Technologies	$258,792.00	N/A	-40.00
Aduro Clean Technologies Competitors	$6.39 billion	$164.80 million	18.87

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.