APWC vs. ACNT, BWEN, AQMS, OCC, INHD, BDC, GLW, HWM, PKX, and MT
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), Broadwind (BWEN), Aqua Metals (AQMS), Optical Cable (OCC), Inno (INHD), Belden (BDC), Corning (GLW), Howmet Aerospace (HWM), POSCO (PKX), and ArcelorMittal (MT).
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable (NASDAQ:APWC) and Ascent Industries (NASDAQ:ACNT) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
In the previous week, Asia Pacific Wire & Cable had 1 more articles in the media than Ascent Industries. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Asia Pacific Wire & Cable and 1 mentions for Ascent Industries. Ascent Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Asia Pacific Wire & Cable's score of 0.00 indicating that Ascent Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
1.0% of Asia Pacific Wire & Cable shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.1% of Ascent Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Asia Pacific Wire & Cable shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.9% of Ascent Industries shares are held by company 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.
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable has higher revenue and earnings than Ascent Industries.
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ascent Industries has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable received 120 more outperform votes than Ascent Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Ascent Industries an outperform vote while only 38.78% of users gave Asia Pacific Wire & Cable an outperform vote.
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Ascent Industries' net margin of -6.89%. Asia Pacific Wire & Cable's return on equity of 0.00% beat Ascent Industries' return on equity.
Summary
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable beats Ascent Industries on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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