NASDAQ$AUR

Aurora Innovation Inc · Q1 2024 earnings

Q1 2024 earnings · · Investor relations

Briefing

Aurora had a strong start in 2024, making progress towards commercial launch and demonstrating financial discipline.

Aurora Innovation demonstrated a strong start to 2024, driven by progress in autonomy performance and financial discipline. The company is focused on its commercial launch, with key partnerships and customer enthusiasm underpinning expectations for rapid revenue growth and high gross margins. They ended the quarter with a solid balance sheet, including $1.2 billion in cash and investments.

  • Improved Aurora Driver’s autonomy performance and advanced launch lane Safety Case.
  • Secured multi-year contractual commitments on volume and pricing from multiple customers.
  • Finalizing contractual commitments through 2025 while increasing load capacity strategically.
  • Ended the first quarter with $1.2 billion in cash & short-term and long-term investments.

Headline financials

Total Revenue

$0.00

Previous: $0.00
EPS (adj)

-$0.11

Previous: -$0.17+35.3%
Capital Expenditures

-$8M

Previous: -$2M-300.0%
Net Income

-$165M

Previous: -$196M+15.8%
Operating Income

-$193M

Previous: -$208M+7.2%
Gross Profit

-$12M

No prior period
R&D Expense

$166M

No prior period
Stock-Based Comp

$36M

Previous: $39M-7.7%

Revenue & EPS history

Aurora · Revenue · Quarterly

$0

Q1 2024
Beat estimate in 4 of 10 quarters(40%)
ActualEstimate

Forward guidance

Aurora expects quarterly cash use of $175 - $185 million on average, with Q2 above this range due to incentive compensation payments. Current liquidity is expected to fund operations into the fourth quarter of 2025.

Tailwinds

  • Continued progress in autonomy performance.
  • Advancing launch lane Safety Case.
  • Secured multi-year contractual commitments.
  • Increasing load capacity strategically.
  • Strong balance sheet with $1.2 billion in cash and investments.

Headwinds

  • Expected quarterly cash use of $175 - $185 million.
  • Second quarter cash spend expected to be above this range.
  • Ongoing net losses.
  • Dependence on achieving commercial launch milestones.
  • Risks associated with development, manufacturing, and scaling of Aurora Driver.

Historical earnings impact

How earnings announcements have historically affected this stock's price.

Avg. return before/after earnings

Based on 20 quarterly earnings reports · overlaid with Q1 2024

Historical avgQ1 2024

-0.7%

Avg return

Earnings day

+2.5%

Avg return

5 days after

-7.1%

Avg return

30 days after

18%

4 / 22 earnings

Positive

+46.0%

Q4 2024

Best reaction

-24.7%

Q3 2024

Worst reaction

Earnings price reactions
QuarterReport dateReaction (Day 0)+5 days+30 days
Q1 2026-0.3%-0.8%-13.5%
Q4 2025-3.2%+3.9%-6.4%
Q3 2025-1.5%-2.9%-19.4%
Q2 2025+0.0%+6.4%-2.8%
Q1 2025-5.9%-11.5%-24.3%
Q4 2024+46.0%+46.8%+8.1%
Q3 2024-24.7%-19.7%-6.4%
Q1 2024+6.5%-10.9%-32.7%
Q4 2023+0.7%-4.9%-27.0%
Q3 2023+9.7%+12.0%+38.3%
Q2 2023-7.8%-8.4%-4.2%
Q1 2023+0.0%+7.4%+6.7%
Q4 2022-2.3%+2.9%-28.0%
Q3 2022-3.8%-11.5%-30.8%
Q4 2019-2.2%-7.3%-13.0%
Q2 2022-3.3%-5.1%-11.0%
Q1 2022-0.2%-8.4%-25.9%
Q2 2021-13.4%+2.8%+6.0%
Q4 2021-5.6%-5.4%-3.2%
Q3 2021-1.6%+71.1%+32.2%
Q1 2021-0.8%-0.6%+1.1%
Q4 2020-0.8%-0.6%+1.1%

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