Edge Case’s three month audit of Aurora Innovation (AUR) has put the company’s Safety Case in the spotlight, confirming its structure, alignment with key standards, and ongoing maintenance for autonomous trucking.
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Aurora Innovation’s latest audit news lands after a mixed stretch for the stock, with a 1 day share price return of 1.92%, a 90 day share price return of 54.37%, and a 3 year total shareholder return of 116.33% that contrasts with a weaker 5 year total shareholder return.
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So with Aurora Innovation trading at US$6.36 and sitting at a large discount to both analyst targets and some intrinsic estimates, is the stock still undervalued, or is the market already pricing in the next leg of growth?
Most Popular Narrative: 77.2% Overvalued
Compared with Aurora Innovation’s last close at $6.36, the most followed narrative applies a fair value of $3.59, which implies the current share price sits well above that benchmark when using a discount rate of 8.46%.
The plan to introduce a second generation commercial hardware kit that is expected to reduce hardware costs by more than 50% and support 1 million mile durability depends on smooth manufacturing scale up with partners like Fabrinet and AUMOVIO. Production or validation setbacks would keep unit costs elevated and pressure gross margins.
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Result: Fair Value of $3.59 (OVERVALUED)
Have a read of the narrative in full and understand what's behind the forecasts.
However, if Aurora Innovation converts early customer interest into broader contracts and executes its lower cost hardware roadmap, that could challenge this more cautious valuation story.
Find out about the key risks to this Aurora Innovation narrative.
Another View on Aurora Innovation’s Valuation
The bearish narrative puts Aurora Innovation at a fair value of $3.59, suggesting the stock is overvalued relative to that analyst cohort. Our SWS DCF model, however, points to a fair value of $37.11 per share, which is very far above the current price of $6.36 and flags the stock as heavily undervalued. That kind of gap raises a simple question: which set of assumptions do you trust more?
To see how the cash flow assumptions stack up and what is built into that higher figure, take a closer look at the SWS DCF workup for Aurora Innovation, starting with the Look into how the SWS DCF model arrives at its fair value.
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Next Steps
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