APY vs. CHX, ROAD, DOOR, ABM, CVCO, STRL, CCS, MHO, DFH, and PGTI
Should you be buying Apergy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Apergy include ChampionX (CHX), Construction Partners (ROAD), Masonite International (DOOR), ABM Industries (ABM), Cavco Industries (CVCO), Sterling Infrastructure (STRL), Century Communities (CCS), M/I Homes (MHO), Dream Finders Homes (DFH), and PGT Innovations (PGTI). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Apergy (NYSE:APY) and ChampionX (NASDAQ:CHX) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Apergy has a beta of 3.56, meaning that its stock price is 256% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ChampionX has a beta of 2.44, meaning that its stock price is 144% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, ChampionX had 11 more articles in the media than Apergy. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for ChampionX and 0 mentions for Apergy. ChampionX's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Apergy's score of 0.00 indicating that ChampionX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Apergy received 135 more outperform votes than ChampionX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.67% of users gave Apergy an outperform vote while only 53.19% of users gave ChampionX an outperform vote.
93.5% of Apergy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.0% of ChampionX shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Apergy shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of ChampionX shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ChampionX has a net margin of 9.74% compared to Apergy's net margin of -57.05%. ChampionX's return on equity of 21.42% beat Apergy's return on equity.
ChampionX has a consensus target price of $40.33, suggesting a potential upside of 15.70%. Given ChampionX's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe ChampionX is more favorable than Apergy.
ChampionX has higher revenue and earnings than Apergy. ChampionX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Apergy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
ChampionX beats Apergy on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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