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APWC vs. ACNT, FRD, LUD, OCC, BWEN, INHD, AQMS, HWM, MT, and TS

Should you be buying Asia Pacific Wire & Cable stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Asia Pacific Wire & Cable include Ascent Industries (ACNT), Friedman Industries (FRD), Luda Technology Group (LUD), Optical Cable (OCC), Broadwind Energy (BWEN), Inno (INHD), Aqua Metals (AQMS), Howmet Aerospace (HWM), ArcelorMittal (MT), and Tenaris (TS). These companies are all part of the "steel works" industry.

Asia Pacific Wire & Cable vs. Its Competitors

Ascent Industries (NASDAQ:ACNT) and Asia Pacific Wire & Cable (NASDAQ:APWC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.

Asia Pacific Wire & Cable has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Ascent Industries' net margin of -6.56%. Asia Pacific Wire & Cable's return on equity of 0.00% beat Ascent Industries' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Ascent Industries-6.56% -1.78% -1.12%
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable N/A N/A N/A

In the previous week, Ascent Industries had 5 more articles in the media than Asia Pacific Wire & Cable. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Ascent Industries and 1 mentions for Asia Pacific Wire & Cable. Asia Pacific Wire & Cable's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Ascent Industries' score of 0.61 indicating that Asia Pacific Wire & Cable is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Ascent Industries Positive
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Very Positive

Ascent Industries has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Asia Pacific Wire & Cable has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Asia Pacific Wire & Cable has higher revenue and earnings than Ascent Industries.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Ascent Industries$177.87M0.73-$13.60M-$1.03-12.58
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable$472.67M0.08$3.49MN/AN/A

26.1% of Ascent Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.0% of Asia Pacific Wire & Cable shares are held by institutional investors. 9.3% of Ascent Industries shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Asia Pacific Wire & Cable shares are held 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.

Summary

Asia Pacific Wire & Cable beats Ascent Industries on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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APWC vs. The Competition

MetricAsia Pacific Wire & CableWIRE&CABLE PRDS IndustryIndustrials SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$37.80M$2.59B$7.88B$9.50B
Dividend YieldN/A0.92%4.55%4.01%
P/E RatioN/A13.3725.5620.05
Price / Sales0.080.97101.4189.19
Price / Cash3.957.3327.9258.56
Price / Book0.182.014.465.87
Net Income$3.49M$224.93M$795.63M$258.55M
7 Day Performance7.08%4.90%1.41%3.73%
1 Month Performance10.63%11.06%5.66%11.75%
1 Year Performance19.67%5.51%31.95%18.03%

Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
APWC
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable
0.8071 of 5 stars
$1.83
-0.1%
N/A+24.7%$37.80M$472.67M0.001,208Positive News
ACNT
Ascent Industries
0.596 of 5 stars
$13.04
+1.3%
N/A+31.0%$130.53M$174.65M-12.66710
FRD
Friedman Industries
N/A$16.31
-1.5%
N/AN/A$115.15M$444.60M18.97100
LUD
Luda Technology Group
N/A$3.95
-8.6%
N/AN/A$89.63M$44.86M0.00161News Coverage
Gap Up
OCC
Optical Cable
1.557 of 5 stars
$6.03
+24.6%
N/A+81.1%$49.63M$66.67M-15.87340Positive News
High Trading Volume
BWEN
Broadwind Energy
3.2287 of 5 stars
$1.89
+0.5%
$4.13
+118.3%
-13.0%$42.88M$142.36M-47.25490
INHD
Inno
0.3733 of 5 stars
$1.50
-0.7%
N/A-80.5%$9.53M$890K0.0011News Coverage
AQMS
Aqua Metals
2.9193 of 5 stars
$0.53
+4.1%
$21.50
+3,978.1%
-91.7%$5.25M$30K-0.1420News Coverage
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
HWM
Howmet Aerospace
4.245 of 5 stars
$184.34
+2.6%
$147.00
-20.3%
+130.2%$74.41B$7.43B60.0423,930Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
MT
ArcelorMittal
3.5899 of 5 stars
$33.91
-1.6%
$32.95
-2.8%
+49.5%$27.78B$60.96B22.16125,416Upcoming Earnings
TS
Tenaris
3.2287 of 5 stars
$38.22
-1.2%
$44.00
+15.1%
+20.3%$22.22B$12.00B11.6525,874Upcoming Earnings

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