CHX vs. IBP, MTH, FLR, LPX, AZEK, TMHC, AAON, SUM, ALTR, and SSD
Should you be buying ChampionX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ChampionX include Installed Building Products (IBP), Meritage Homes (MTH), Fluor (FLR), Louisiana-Pacific (LPX), AZEK (AZEK), Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), AAON (AAON), Summit Materials (SUM), Altair Engineering (ALTR), and Simpson Manufacturing (SSD). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Installed Building Products (NYSE:IBP) 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 risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and profitability.
ChampionX has higher revenue and earnings than Installed Building Products. ChampionX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Installed Building Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Installed Building Products currently has a consensus price target of $229.30, indicating a potential upside of 8.25%. ChampionX has a consensus price target of $40.33, indicating a potential upside of 17.38%. Given Installed Building Products' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe ChampionX is more favorable than Installed Building Products.
Installed Building Products received 309 more outperform votes than ChampionX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.73% of users gave Installed Building Products an outperform vote while only 53.19% of users gave ChampionX an outperform vote.
Installed Building Products has a beta of 1.91, indicating that its share price is 91% more 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.
Installed Building Products pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. ChampionX pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Installed Building Products pays out 15.8% 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. Installed Building Products has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and ChampionX has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Installed Building Products had 9 more articles in the media than ChampionX. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Installed Building Products and 8 mentions for ChampionX. Installed Building Products' average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat ChampionX's score of 0.58 indicating that ChampionX is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
ChampionX has a net margin of 9.74% compared to ChampionX's net margin of 8.90%. ChampionX's return on equity of 45.41% beat Installed Building Products' return on equity.
99.6% of Installed Building Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.0% of ChampionX shares are held by institutional investors. 16.5% of Installed Building Products 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, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Installed Building Products beats ChampionX on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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