CHX vs. AAON, FLR, MTH, TMHC, IBP, AZEK, SUM, ALTR, UFPI, and THO
Should you be buying ChampionX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ChampionX include AAON (AAON), Fluor (FLR), Meritage Homes (MTH), Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), Installed Building Products (IBP), AZEK (AZEK), Summit Materials (SUM), Altair Engineering (ALTR), UFP Industries (UFPI), and THOR Industries (THO). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
AAON (NASDAQ:AAON) and ChampionX (NASDAQ:CHX) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
AAON has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ChampionX has a beta of 2.45, indicating that its share price is 145% more volatile than the S&P 500.
AAON pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. ChampionX pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. AAON pays out 14.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ChampionX pays out 20.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. ChampionX has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. ChampionX is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, AAON had 7 more articles in the media than ChampionX. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for AAON and 8 mentions for ChampionX. AAON's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat ChampionX's score of 0.75 indicating that ChampionX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
70.8% of AAON shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.0% of ChampionX shares are held by institutional investors. 18.6% of AAON shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of ChampionX shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ChampionX has a consensus target price of $40.33, suggesting a potential upside of 17.18%. Given AAON's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ChampionX is more favorable than AAON.
AAON received 208 more outperform votes than ChampionX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.01% of users gave AAON an outperform vote while only 53.19% of users gave ChampionX an outperform vote.
ChampionX has higher revenue and earnings than AAON. ChampionX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AAON, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
AAON has a net margin of 15.44% compared to AAON's net margin of 9.74%. ChampionX's return on equity of 25.84% beat AAON's return on equity.
Summary
AAON beats ChampionX on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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