Head-To-Head Contrast: Aduro Clean Technologies (ADUR) versus Its Peers

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

Insider and Institutional 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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Aduro Clean Technologies and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	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 currently has a consensus price target 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, equities research analysts clearly believe Aduro Clean Technologies is more favorable than its peers.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Aduro Clean Technologies and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) 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’ peers have higher revenue and earnings than Aduro Clean Technologies. Aduro Clean Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Aduro Clean Technologies and its peers’ 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%

Summary

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

Aduro Clean Technologies Company Profile

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.