APWC vs. ACNT, LUD, HUHU, BWEN, INHD, OCC, 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), Luda Technology Group (LUD), HUHUTECH International Group (HUHU), Broadwind (BWEN), Inno (INHD), Optical Cable (OCC), 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.
Ascent Industries (NASDAQ:ACNT) and Asia Pacific Wire & Cable (NASDAQ:APWC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
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 35.48% 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 -0.80%. Asia Pacific Wire & Cable's return on equity of 0.00% beat Ascent Industries' return on equity.
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable has higher revenue and earnings than Ascent Industries.
26.0% of Ascent Industries shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.0% of Asia Pacific Wire & Cable shares are held by institutional investors. 12.9% of Ascent Industries shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Asia Pacific Wire & Cable shares are held by company 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.
In the previous week, Ascent Industries had 2 more articles in the media than Asia Pacific Wire & Cable. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Ascent Industries and 1 mentions for Asia Pacific Wire & Cable. Ascent Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Asia Pacific Wire & Cable's score of 0.00 indicating that Ascent Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ascent Industries has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Asia Pacific Wire & Cable has a beta of 0.58, suggesting that its share price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Ascent Industries beats Asia Pacific Wire & Cable on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:APWC) was last updated on 4/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
