CommVault Systems (NASDAQ:CVLT – Get Free Report) and Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ:AUR – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Profitability
This table compares CommVault Systems and Aurora Innovation’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| CommVault Systems | 5.62% | 88.75% | 5.59% |
| Aurora Innovation | -18,000.00% | -43.94% | -39.85% |
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of current recommendations for CommVault Systems and Aurora Innovation, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| CommVault Systems | 0 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 2.57 |
| Aurora Innovation | 2 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 2.50 |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
93.5% of CommVault Systems shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.7% of Aurora Innovation shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of CommVault Systems shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Aurora Innovation shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares CommVault Systems 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 | |
| CommVault Systems | $1.18 billion | 5.10 | $70.66 million | $1.57 | 92.70 |
| Aurora Innovation | $3.00 million | 4,035.04 | -$816.00 million | ($0.47) | -12.85 |
CommVault Systems has higher revenue and earnings than Aurora Innovation. Aurora Innovation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CommVault Systems, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk and Volatility
CommVault Systems has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aurora Innovation has a beta of 2.63, indicating that its share price is 163% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
CommVault Systems beats Aurora Innovation on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About CommVault Systems
Commvault Systems, Inc. provides data protection platform that helps customers to secure, defend, and recover their data in the United States and internationally. The company offers Commvault Backup and Recovery, a backup and recovery solution; Commvault Disaster Recovery, a replication and disaster recovery solution; Commvault Complete Data Protection, a data protection solution; and Metallic Data Protection as-a-service, which delivers enterprise-grade data protection as a service on a cloud platform, with advanced built-in security controls. It also provides Commvault HyperScale X, an easy-to-deploy scale-out solution; and Metallic Recovery Reserve, an easy button to adopt secure and scalable cloud storage in minutes. In addition, the company provides technology consulting, Ransomware recovery, education, and remote managed services. Further, it sells appliances that integrate the software with hardware for use in a range of business needs and use cases; and offers customer support, consulting, assessment and design, and installation services, as well as customer education and as-a-service under the Metallic brand. The company sells its products and services directly through its sales force, and indirectly through its network of distributors, value-added resellers, systems integrators, corporate resellers, and original equipment manufacturers to large enterprises, small or med-sized businesses, and government agencies. It supports customers in a range of industries, including banking, insurance and financial services, government, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and medical services, technology, legal, manufacturing, utilities, and energy. Commvault Systems, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey.
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.
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