Aduro Clean Technologies Inc. (ADUR) vs 374Water Inc. (SCWO)

Aduro Clean Technologies Inc. and 374Water Inc. are both Pollution & Treatment Controls companies. Aduro Clean Technologies Inc. is the larger, with a market value of $325.6M against $42.8M — 7.6× the size. 374Water Inc. grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 53.5% against −6.78%. Aduro Clean Technologies Inc. has the higher net margin (0.00% vs −1,056.2%) and the higher return on invested capital (0.00% vs −297.2%). Across the 17 metrics below, Aduro Clean Technologies Inc. leads on 12 and 374Water Inc. on 5.

Valuation

Metric ADUR SCWO Pollution & Treatment Controls median
P/E n/m n/m —
P/S 2,124.01 22.64 2.57
P/B 8.41 14.33 3.65
Price to free cash flow n/m n/m —
EV/EBITDA n/m n/m 18.43
EV/Sales 1,855.47 23.50 2.88
Earnings yield (4.16%) (50.56%) (13.60%)
Free cash flow yield (2.68%) (26.53%) (11.65%)

Profitability

Metric ADUR SCWO Pollution & Treatment Controls median
Gross margin 100.00% 6.25% 32.15%
Operating margin 0.00% (1,002.21%) (17.50%)
Net margin 0.00% (1,056.18%) (17.98%)
Free cash flow margin 0.00% (595.30%) (10.60%)
Return on equity (48.86%) (335.45%) (36.93%)
Return on assets (39.67%) (157.47%) (24.86%)
Return on invested capital 0.00% (297.16%) (0.06%)

Growth

Metric ADUR SCWO Pollution & Treatment Controls median
Revenue growth (TTM) (6.78%) 53.49% 8.69%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) (90.62%) (53.33%) 11.29%
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR — 19.95% 12.30%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR — 0.00% 0.00%

Health

Metric ADUR SCWO Pollution & Treatment Controls median
Debt to equity 0.00 0.93 0.13
Current ratio 88.77 1.67 1.84
Net debt to EBITDA 2.21 0.12 0.50

Dividend

Metric ADUR SCWO Pollution & Treatment Controls median
Dividend yield — — —
Payout ratio — — —

Size

Metric ADUR SCWO Pollution & Treatment Controls median
Market cap 325.60m 42.83m 73.82m

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