CHX vs. SYM, NVT, BWXT, ESAB, SPXC, MOG.B, ZWS, WFRD, WHD, and HAYW
Should you be buying ChampionX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ChampionX include Symbotic (SYM), nVent Electric (NVT), BWX Technologies (BWXT), ESAB (ESAB), SPX Technologies (SPXC), Moog (MOG.B), Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (ZWS), Weatherford International (WFRD), Cactus (WHD), and Hayward (HAYW). These companies are all part of the "machinery" industry.
ChampionX vs.
Symbotic (NASDAQ:SYM) and ChampionX (NASDAQ:CHX) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
99.0% of ChampionX shares are owned by institutional investors. 38.3% of Symbotic shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of ChampionX shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ChampionX has a net margin of 8.59% compared to Symbotic's net margin of -0.32%. ChampionX's return on equity of 19.74% beat Symbotic's return on equity.
Symbotic presently has a consensus price target of $38.73, suggesting a potential upside of 30.15%. ChampionX has a consensus price target of $41.33, suggesting a potential upside of 32.44%. Given ChampionX's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ChampionX is more favorable than Symbotic.
ChampionX has higher revenue and earnings than Symbotic. Symbotic is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ChampionX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Symbotic had 80 more articles in the media than ChampionX. MarketBeat recorded 81 mentions for Symbotic and 1 mentions for ChampionX. ChampionX's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Symbotic's score of 0.23 indicating that ChampionX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Symbotic received 34 more outperform votes than ChampionX when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.06% of users gave ChampionX an outperform vote while only 51.72% of users gave Symbotic an outperform vote.
Symbotic has a beta of 1.76, indicating that its share price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ChampionX has a beta of 2.36, indicating that its share price is 136% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
ChampionX beats Symbotic on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CHX) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
