AP vs. AIU, ISDR, TPCS, EBON, BWEN, PPSI, FTEK, CLIR, FATH, and SNT
Should you be buying Ampco-Pittsburgh stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ampco-Pittsburgh include Meta Data (AIU), Issuer Direct (ISDR), TechPrecision (TPCS), Ebang International (EBON), Broadwind (BWEN), Pioneer Power Solutions (PPSI), Fuel Tech (FTEK), ClearSign Technologies (CLIR), Fathom Digital Manufacturing (FATH), and Senstar Technologies (SNT). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Meta Data (NYSE:AIU) and Ampco-Pittsburgh (NYSE:AP) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and earnings.
Meta Data has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ampco-Pittsburgh has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Meta Data has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Meta Data's net margin of -9.45%. Ampco-Pittsburgh's return on equity of 0.00% beat Meta Data's return on equity.
Meta Data has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ampco-Pittsburgh.
Ampco-Pittsburgh received 303 more outperform votes than Meta Data when rated by MarketBeat users.
0.4% of Meta Data shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.2% of Ampco-Pittsburgh shares are held by institutional investors. 12.7% of Meta Data shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 31.4% of Ampco-Pittsburgh 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.
In the previous week, Ampco-Pittsburgh had 1 more articles in the media than Meta Data. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Ampco-Pittsburgh and 1 mentions for Meta Data. Meta Data's average media sentiment score of 0.12 beat Ampco-Pittsburgh's score of 0.00 indicating that Ampco-Pittsburgh is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Ampco-Pittsburgh beats Meta Data on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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