Head to Head Survey: ChampionX (NASDAQ:CHX) & Harris & Harris Group (NASDAQ:TURN)

ChampionX (NASDAQ:CHX) and Harris & Harris Group (NASDAQ:TURN) are both construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

99.0% of ChampionX shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.8% of Harris & Harris Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of ChampionX shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of Harris & Harris Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

ChampionX has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Harris & Harris Group has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares ChampionX and Harris & Harris Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ChampionX	8.20%	19.25%	10.25%
Harris & Harris Group	N/A	N/A	N/A

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares ChampionX and Harris & Harris Group”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
ChampionX	$3.63 billion	1.39	$320.27 million	$1.51	17.42
Harris & Harris Group	$190,000.00	208.16	-$3.87 million	N/A	N/A

ChampionX has higher revenue and earnings than Harris & Harris Group.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for ChampionX and Harris & Harris Group, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ChampionX	0	1	2	0	2.67
Harris & Harris Group	0	0	0	0	0.00

ChampionX presently has a consensus price target of $37.67, indicating a potential upside of 43.16%. Given ChampionX’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe ChampionX is more favorable than Harris & Harris Group.

Summary

ChampionX beats Harris & Harris Group on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About ChampionX

ChampionX Corporation provides chemistry solutions, artificial lift systems, and engineered equipment and technologies to oil and gas companies worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Production Chemical Technologies, Production & Automation Technologies, Drilling Technologies, and Reservoir Chemical Technologies. The Production Chemical Technologies segment offers onshore, offshore, and oil sands chemical solutions, such as corrosion inhibitors, scale inhibitors, emulsion breakers, and biocides to oil and natural gas production and midstream markets to manage and control corrosion, oil and water separation, flow assurance, sour gas treatment, and water-related issues. The Production & Automation Technologies segment provides artificial lift equipment, end-to-end digital automation solutions, and other production equipment and emissions monitoring solutions, including electrical submersible pumping systems, gas lift systems, jet pumps, multiplex surface pumps, plunger lift equipment, progressive cavity pumping systems, downhole rod lift systems, methane emissions monitoring solutions, chemical injection systems, flow control valves, and gauges under the Harbison-Fischer, Norris, Alberta Oil Tool, Oil Lift Technology, PCS Ferguson, Pro-Rod, Upco, Unbridled ESP, Norriseal-Wellmark, Quartzdyne, Spirit, Theta, Timberline, and Windrock brands. The Drilling Technologies segment offers polycrystalline diamond cutter inserts, bearings, valves, nozzles, and mining tools used in oil and gas drill bits under the US Synthetic brand; and high-density ceramic roof bolt mining tools for underground mining operations. The Reservoir Chemical Technologies segment provides chemistry-oriented solutions and technologies for well drilling, cementing, fracturing, acidizing, and other well interventions, as well as fracturing, drilling, cementing, acidizing additives. The company was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas.

About Harris & Harris Group

180 Degree Capital Corp. is a publicly owned corporate pension plan sponsor. It primarily provides its services to pension and profit sharing plans. The firm is a large advisory firm which provides portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles, pension consulting services. It manages separate client focused equity and balanced funds. It invests in exchange-traded equity securities, non exchange-traded equity securities, cash and cash equivalents and assets of the adviser that are primarily receivables and prepaid expenses. The firm conducts in-house research to make investments. The firm was formerly known as Harris & Harris Group, Inc. 180 Degree Capital Corp. was founded in 1981 and is based in Montclair, New Jersey.