Reviewing Aduro Clean Technologies (ADUR) and Its Peers

Aduro Clean Technologies (NASDAQ:ADUR) is one of 35 public companies in the “Chemicals & allied products” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare Aduro Clean Technologies to related businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.

Profitability

This table compares Aduro Clean Technologies and its competitors’ 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%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

70.5% of shares of all “Chemicals & allied products” companies are owned by institutional investors. 9.3% of shares of all “Chemicals & allied products” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Aduro Clean Technologies and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	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	1463	1675	50	2.49

Aduro Clean Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $48.00, suggesting a potential upside of 491.86%. As a group, “Chemicals & allied products” companies have a potential upside of 17.32%. Given Aduro Clean Technologies’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Aduro Clean Technologies is more favorable than its competitors.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Aduro Clean Technologies and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Aduro Clean Technologies	$258,792.00	N/A	-32.44
Aduro Clean Technologies Competitors	$6.39 billion	$164.80 million	19.79

Aduro Clean Technologies’ competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Aduro Clean Technologies. Aduro Clean Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Aduro Clean Technologies beats its competitors 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.