Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ:AUR) versus Climb Global Solutions (NASDAQ:CLMB) Financial Comparison

Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ:AUR) and Climb Global Solutions (NASDAQ:CLMB) are both business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings and valuation.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Aurora Innovation and Climb Global Solutions”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Aurora Innovation	$68.00 million	151.70	-$748.00 million	($0.47)	-11.89
Climb Global Solutions	$465.61 million	1.32	$18.61 million	$4.82	27.52

Climb Global Solutions has higher revenue and earnings than Aurora Innovation. Aurora Innovation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Climb Global Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk & Volatility

Aurora Innovation has a beta of 2.48, suggesting that its share price is 148% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Climb Global Solutions has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Aurora Innovation and Climb Global Solutions’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Aurora Innovation	N/A	-42.25%	-37.29%
Climb Global Solutions	3.82%	29.16%	6.77%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for Aurora Innovation and Climb Global Solutions, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Aurora Innovation	0	4	5	0	2.56
Climb Global Solutions	0	0	1	0	3.00

Aurora Innovation presently has a consensus target price of $10.75, suggesting a potential upside of 92.31%. Climb Global Solutions has a consensus target price of $136.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.54%. Given Aurora Innovation’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Aurora Innovation is more favorable than Climb Global Solutions.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

44.7% of Aurora Innovation shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.7% of Climb Global Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.9% of Aurora Innovation shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.1% of Climb Global Solutions 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.

Summary

Climb Global Solutions beats Aurora Innovation on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Aurora Innovation

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.

About Climb Global Solutions

Climb Global Solutions Inc. operates as a value-added information technology (IT) distribution and solutions company in the United States, Canada, Europe, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Distribution and Solutions. The company distributes technical software to corporate and value-added resellers, consultants, and systems integrators under the name Climb Channel Solutions; and provides cloud solutions and resells software, hardware, and services under the name Grey Matter. It also resells computer software and hardware developed by others, as well as provides technical services to end user customers. In addition, the company offers a line of products from various software vendors; and tools for virtualization/cloud computing, security, networking, storage and infrastructure management, application lifecycle management, and other technically sophisticated domains, as well as computer hardware. It markets its products through its own web sites, local and on-line seminars, events, webinars, and social media, as well as direct email and printed materials. The company was formerly known as Wayside Technology Group, Inc. and changed its name to Climb Global Solutions Inc. in October 2022. Climb Global Solutions Inc. was incorporated in 1982 and is headquartered in Eatontown, New Jersey.