ACNT vs. AP, USAP, NWPX, RSSS, UFI, MKFG, TSE, VTNR, WRAP, and DNMR
Should you be buying Ascent Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ascent Industries include Ampco-Pittsburgh (AP), Universal Stainless & Alloy Products (USAP), Northwest Pipe (NWPX), Research Solutions (RSSS), Unifi (UFI), Markforged (MKFG), Trinseo (TSE), Vertex Energy (VTNR), Wrap Technologies (WRAP), and Danimer Scientific (DNMR).
Ampco-Pittsburgh (NYSE:AP) and Ascent Industries (NASDAQ:ACNT) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and profitability.
In the previous week, Ampco-Pittsburgh had 1 more articles in the media than Ascent Industries. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Ampco-Pittsburgh and 1 mentions for Ascent Industries. Ascent Industries' 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 media.
Ampco-Pittsburgh received 302 more outperform votes than Ascent Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Ascent Industries an outperform vote while only 58.72% of users gave Ampco-Pittsburgh an outperform vote.
Ampco-Pittsburgh has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ascent Industries has a beta of 0.73, meaning that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ascent Industries has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ampco-Pittsburgh. Ascent Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ampco-Pittsburgh, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ampco-Pittsburgh has a net margin of -9.45% compared to Ampco-Pittsburgh's net margin of -11.07%. Ampco-Pittsburgh's return on equity of -15.98% beat Ascent Industries' return on equity.
Ascent Industries has a consensus price target of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 95.69%. Given Ampco-Pittsburgh's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ascent Industries is more favorable than Ampco-Pittsburgh.
49.2% of Ampco-Pittsburgh shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.1% of Ascent Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 28.8% of Ampco-Pittsburgh shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.2% of Ascent Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Ampco-Pittsburgh beats Ascent Industries on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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