Ncc Group (OTCMKTS:NCCGF) & Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ:AUR) Financial Review

Ncc Group (OTCMKTS:NCCGF) and Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ:AUR) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings for Ncc Group and Aurora Innovation, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ncc Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
Aurora Innovation	2	2	4	0	2.25

Aurora Innovation has a consensus target price of $10.34, suggesting a potential upside of 153.43%. Given Aurora Innovation’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Aurora Innovation is more favorable than Ncc Group.

Profitability

This table compares Ncc Group and Aurora Innovation’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ncc Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Aurora Innovation	N/A	-40.60%	-36.46%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Ncc Group and Aurora Innovation”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ncc Group	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Aurora Innovation	$3.00 million	2,650.38	-$816.00 million	($0.45)	-9.07

Ncc Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Aurora Innovation.

Volatility & Risk

Ncc Group has a beta of 0.09, suggesting that its share price is 91% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aurora Innovation has a beta of 2.45, suggesting that its share price is 145% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

44.7% of Aurora Innovation shares are held by institutional investors. 11.9% of Aurora Innovation shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Aurora Innovation beats Ncc Group on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Ncc Group

NCC Group plc engages in the cyber and software resilience business in the United Kingdom, the Asian-Pacific, North America, and Europe. The company operates in two segments, Cyber Security and Software Resilience. It offers assessment and advisory services, which include risk management, supply chain risk, cloud and infrastructure, application and security software, mobile, managed vulnerability scanning, hardware and embedded systems, and cryptography, as well as calibrator and cyber security review solutions. The company also provides detection and response services, including managed detection and response, incident response, and threat intelligence; compliance services, such as data privacy, government security, and payments; and remediation and big bounty services. In addition, it provides software resilience services, such as cloud software escrow solutions, on-premises software escrow agreements, on-premises software escrow verification, virtual and physical escrow vaults, software security testing, and software risk assessment tools, as well as offers training services to developers and other security teams. The company serves customers in various industries that include finance and professional, transport and manufacturing, public, retail, and energy and utilities, as well as technology, media, telecommunications sectors. NCC Group plc was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Manchester, the United Kingdom.

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.