Financial Analysis: Aduro Clean Technologies (NASDAQ:ADUR) vs. Hawkins (NASDAQ:HWKN)

Hawkins (NASDAQ:HWKN) and Aduro Clean Technologies (NASDAQ:ADUR) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation and risk.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

69.7% of Hawkins shares are held by institutional investors. 3.8% of Hawkins shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Hawkins and Aduro Clean Technologies”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Hawkins	$934.42 million	2.56	$75.36 million	$3.91	29.24
Aduro Clean Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Hawkins has higher revenue and earnings than Aduro Clean Technologies.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for Hawkins and Aduro Clean Technologies, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Hawkins	0	1	0	0	2.00
Aduro Clean Technologies	0	0	0	0	0.00

Hawkins currently has a consensus price target of $122.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.72%. Given Hawkins’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Hawkins is more favorable than Aduro Clean Technologies.

Profitability

This table compares Hawkins and Aduro Clean Technologies’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Hawkins	8.74%	19.64%	12.13%
Aduro Clean Technologies	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Hawkins beats Aduro Clean Technologies on 8 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Hawkins

Hawkins, Inc. operates as a specialty chemical and ingredients company in the United States. It operates through three segments: Industrial, Water Treatment, and Health and Nutrition. The Industrial segment offers industrial chemicals, products, and services to agriculture, chemical processing, electronics, energy, food, pharmaceutical, and plating industries. This segment manufactures sodium hypochlorite and agricultural products, as well as various food-grade and pharmaceutical products, such as liquid phosphates, lactates, other blended products, and agricultural products; and receives, stores, and distributes various chemicals comprising liquid caustic soda, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, urea, phosphoric acid, aqua ammonia, and potassium hydroxide. It also repackages water treatment chemicals and bulk industrial chemicals; and performs custom blending of chemicals. The Water Treatment segment provides chemicals, products, equipment, services, and solutions for potable water, municipal and industrial wastewater, industrial process water, non-residential swimming pool water, and agriculture water. The Health and Nutrition segment offers ingredient distribution, processing, and formulation solutions to manufacturers of nutraceutical, functional food and beverage, personal care, dietary supplement and other nutritional food, and health and wellness products. Its products portfolio includes minerals, vitamins and amino acids, excipients, joint products, botanicals and herbs, sweeteners, and enzymes. Hawkins, Inc. was founded in 1938 and is headquartered in Roseville, Minnesota.

About Aduro Clean Technologies

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.