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APWC vs. ACNT, HUHU, BWEN, OCC, INHD, AQMS, HWM, MT, TS, and PKX

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), HUHUTECH International Group (HUHU), Broadwind (BWEN), Optical Cable (OCC), Inno (INHD), Aqua Metals (AQMS), Howmet Aerospace (HWM), ArcelorMittal (MT), Tenaris (TS), and POSCO (PKX). 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 industrial products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.

In the previous week, Ascent Industries had 2 more articles in the media than Asia Pacific Wire & Cable. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Ascent Industries and 2 mentions for Asia Pacific Wire & Cable. Ascent Industries' average media sentiment score of 1.57 beat Asia Pacific Wire & Cable's score of 0.30 indicating that Ascent Industries is being referred to more favorably in the media.

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

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 36.12% of users gave Asia Pacific Wire & Cable an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Ascent IndustriesOutperform Votes
1
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes
Asia Pacific Wire & CableOutperform Votes
121
36.12%
Underperform Votes
214
63.88%

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Ascent Industries-0.80% -12.48% -8.01%
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable N/A N/A N/A

26.0% of Ascent Industries shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.0% of Asia Pacific Wire & Cable shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.9% of Ascent Industries shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Asia Pacific Wire & Cable shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Ascent Industries$178.42M0.63-$26.63M-$0.17-65.12
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable$468.13M0.07$3.87MN/AN/A

Ascent Industries has a beta of 0.83, meaning that its stock price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Asia Pacific Wire & Cable has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% 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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APWC vs. The Competition

MetricAsia Pacific Wire & CableNonferrous wiredrawing & insulating IndustryIndustrial SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$30.88M$11.39B$9.17B$8.39B
Dividend YieldN/A1.22%2.13%3.98%
P/E RatioN/A35.0316.4519.21
Price / Sales0.071.354.20110.22
Price / Cash3.209.8922.0434.58
Price / Book0.142.164.104.28
Net Income$3.87M$176.02M$424.93M$247.04M
7 Day Performance-2.10%-5.30%-3.19%-4.36%
1 Month Performance-0.13%-10.35%-7.12%-5.59%
1 Year Performance15.23%26.13%18.03%3.39%

Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
APWC
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable
0.4023 of 5 stars
$1.50
-0.8%
N/A+15.4%$30.88M$468.13M0.001,210Analyst Forecast
ACNT
Ascent Industries
1.6437 of 5 stars
$11.09
+1.1%
N/A+4.2%$111.90M$193.18M-65.24710Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
HUHU
HUHUTECH International Group
N/A$4.11
-2.9%
N/AN/A$86.43MN/A0.00N/AGap Down
BWEN
Broadwind
3.7825 of 5 stars
$1.55
-0.6%
$5.17
+233.3%
-38.7%$34.28M$156.17M11.07490Short Interest ↑
OCC
Optical Cable
1.2258 of 5 stars
$4.09
-3.8%
N/A+28.3%$33.62M$66.67M-7.57340Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↓
INHD
Inno
0.2254 of 5 stars
$4.66
+0.6%
N/A-47.2%$20.55M$890,000.000.0011Short Interest ↑
AQMS
Aqua Metals
2.6727 of 5 stars
$2.19
-4.4%
$30.00
+1,269.9%
-79.9%$15.62M$30,000.00-0.4620Positive News
Gap Up
HWM
Howmet Aerospace
4.1202 of 5 stars
$129.48
-0.3%
$123.28
-4.8%
+104.1%$52.44B$7.43B45.9223,200Positive News
MT
ArcelorMittal
3.3507 of 5 stars
$27.82
+0.1%
$31.17
+12.0%
+6.9%$22.79B$62.44B16.86126,756Options Volume
Gap Up
TS
Tenaris
3.3572 of 5 stars
$37.62
-0.4%
$45.60
+21.2%
+6.6%$21.87B$12.52B10.4229,134
PKX
POSCO
3.1 of 5 stars
$48.33
+2.4%
N/A-43.5%$14.67B$72.69T22.1744,501Short Interest ↓
Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:APWC) was last updated on 3/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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