CHX vs. MTH, LPX, TMHC, AAON, AZEK, FLR, IBP, SUM, SSD, and UFPI
Should you be buying ChampionX stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ChampionX include Meritage Homes (MTH), Louisiana-Pacific (LPX), Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), AAON (AAON), AZEK (AZEK), Fluor (FLR), Installed Building Products (IBP), Summit Materials (SUM), Simpson Manufacturing (SSD), and UFP Industries (UFPI). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
ChampionX (NASDAQ:CHX) and Meritage Homes (NYSE:MTH) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking and earnings.
Meritage Homes has a net margin of 12.54% compared to ChampionX's net margin of 9.74%. ChampionX's return on equity of 21.42% beat Meritage Homes' return on equity.
99.0% of ChampionX shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.4% of Meritage Homes shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of ChampionX shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Meritage Homes shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
ChampionX has a beta of 2.45, indicating that its share price is 145% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Meritage Homes has a beta of 1.75, indicating that its share price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ChampionX pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Meritage Homes pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. ChampionX pays out 20.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Meritage Homes pays out 14.0% 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. Meritage Homes is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Meritage Homes had 3 more articles in the media than ChampionX. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Meritage Homes and 4 mentions for ChampionX. ChampionX's average media sentiment score of 1.80 beat Meritage Homes' score of 0.63 indicating that ChampionX is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ChampionX presently has a consensus target price of $40.33, indicating a potential upside of 22.30%. Meritage Homes has a consensus target price of $178.25, indicating a potential upside of 3.49%. Given ChampionX's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe ChampionX is more favorable than Meritage Homes.
Meritage Homes has higher revenue and earnings than ChampionX. Meritage Homes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ChampionX, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Meritage Homes received 406 more outperform votes than ChampionX when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.33% of users gave Meritage Homes an outperform vote while only 53.19% of users gave ChampionX an outperform vote.
Summary
Meritage Homes beats ChampionX on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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