ACNT vs. OSN, AP, USAP, NWPX, INHD, ZEUS, ATI, HDSN, IPX, and PKOH
Should you be buying Ascent Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ascent Industries include Ossen Innovation (OSN), Ampco-Pittsburgh (AP), Universal Stainless & Alloy Products (USAP), Northwest Pipe (NWPX), Inno (INHD), Olympic Steel (ZEUS), ATI (ATI), Hudson Technologies (HDSN), IperionX (IPX), and Park-Ohio (PKOH).
Ossen Innovation (NASDAQ:OSN) and Ascent Industries (NASDAQ:ACNT) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership and dividends.
Ossen Innovation has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ascent Industries.
Ossen Innovation has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Ossen Innovation's net margin of -13.32%. Ascent Industries' return on equity of 0.00% beat Ossen Innovation's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ascent Industries had 6 more articles in the media than Ossen Innovation. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Ascent Industries and 0 mentions for Ossen Innovation. Ossen Innovation's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Ascent Industries' score of 0.00 indicating that Ascent Industries is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ossen Innovation has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ascent Industries has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ossen Innovation received 92 more outperform votes than Ascent Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Ascent Industries an outperform vote while only 67.39% of users gave Ossen Innovation an outperform vote.
26.1% of Ascent Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 60.0% of Ossen Innovation 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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Ossen Innovation beats Ascent Industries on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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