Critical Review: Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ:AUR) & Jianzhi Education Technology Group (NASDAQ:JZ)

Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ:AUR) and Jianzhi Education Technology Group (NASDAQ:JZ) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, earnings and valuation.

Profitability

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

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

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Aurora Innovation and Jianzhi Education Technology Group”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Aurora Innovation	$3.00 million	3,098.61	-$816.00 million	($0.45)	-10.60
Jianzhi Education Technology Group	$34.09 million	0.05	-$4.59 million	N/A	N/A

Jianzhi Education Technology Group has higher revenue and earnings than Aurora Innovation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Aurora Innovation and Jianzhi Education Technology Group, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Aurora Innovation	2	2	5	0	2.33
Jianzhi Education Technology Group	1	0	0	0	1.00

Aurora Innovation currently has a consensus price target of $10.62, indicating a potential upside of 122.57%. Given Aurora Innovation’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Aurora Innovation is more favorable than Jianzhi Education Technology Group.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

44.7% of Aurora Innovation shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of Jianzhi Education Technology Group 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 stock is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility & Risk

Aurora Innovation has a beta of 2.47, meaning that its share price is 147% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Jianzhi Education Technology Group has a beta of 2.13, meaning that its share price is 113% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Aurora Innovation beats Jianzhi Education Technology Group on 6 of the 11 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 Jianzhi Education Technology Group

Jianzhi Education Technology Group Company Limited develops and provides educational content products and IT services to higher education institutions in China. The company designs and develops customized IT system services. It also offers procurement and assembling services for equipment; digital content for vocational training; and educational resources and course content, as well as technological support and maintenance services. In addition, the company provides mobile media services, including mobile media advertising, mobile application content data business system, and Wo reading services. Jianzhi Education Technology Group Company Limited was founded in 2011 and is based in Beijing, China.