UFPI vs. CHX, SUM, FLR, AZEK, AAON, MTZ, ALTR, IBP, AYI, and SSD
Should you be buying UFP Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UFP Industries include ChampionX (CHX), Summit Materials (SUM), Fluor (FLR), AZEK (AZEK), AAON (AAON), MasTec (MTZ), Altair Engineering (ALTR), Installed Building Products (IBP), Acuity Brands (AYI), and Simpson Manufacturing (SSD). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
UFP Industries (NASDAQ:UFPI) and ChampionX (NASDAQ:CHX) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
UFP Industries has higher revenue and earnings than ChampionX. UFP Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ChampionX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
81.8% of UFP Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.0% of ChampionX shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of UFP Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of ChampionX shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
UFP Industries received 270 more outperform votes than ChampionX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.84% of users gave UFP Industries an outperform vote while only 53.19% of users gave ChampionX an outperform vote.
ChampionX has a net margin of 8.36% compared to UFP Industries' net margin of 7.12%. ChampionX's return on equity of 20.14% beat UFP Industries' return on equity.
UFP Industries currently has a consensus target price of $114.00, suggesting a potential upside of 0.28%. ChampionX has a consensus target price of $40.33, suggesting a potential upside of 16.40%. Given ChampionX's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ChampionX is more favorable than UFP Industries.
UFP Industries pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. ChampionX pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. UFP Industries pays out 16.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ChampionX pays out 24.2% 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. UFP Industries is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
UFP Industries has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ChampionX has a beta of 2.44, suggesting that its share price is 144% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ChampionX had 1 more articles in the media than UFP Industries. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for ChampionX and 8 mentions for UFP Industries. ChampionX's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat UFP Industries' score of 0.52 indicating that ChampionX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
ChampionX beats UFP Industries on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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