ATS vs CXW Comparison

ATS Corp is engaged in planning, designing, building, commissioning and servicing automated manufacturing systems - including automation products and test solutions - for a broadly diversified base of customers. The company focuses in five key markets: life sciences, food & beverage, transportation, consumer products and energy. The Company's operations are reported as one operating segment, Automation Systems, which plans, allocates resources, builds capabilities and implements practices on a world-wide basis. The company has presence in Canada, United States, Germany, Italy, Other Europe, and Other.

CoreCivic Inc is an owner and operator of private prisons and detention centers in the United States. It operates in three segments: Safety, Community, and Properties. The Community segment owns and operates residential reentry centers. The Properties segment owns properties for lease to third parties and government agencies. The vast majority of the company's revenue comes from the CoreCivic Safety segment which consists of correctional and detention facilities that are owned, or controlled via a long-term lease, and managed by the company, as well as those correctional and detention facilities owned by third parties but managed by CoreCivic.