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Aqua Metals (AQMS) Competitors

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AQMS vs. BWEN, OCC, APWC, INHD, HWM, TS, MT, PKX, GGB, and TX

Should you be buying Aqua Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aqua Metals include Broadwind (BWEN), Optical Cable (OCC), Asia Pacific Wire & Cable (APWC), Inno (INHD), Howmet Aerospace (HWM), Tenaris (TS), ArcelorMittal (MT), POSCO (PKX), Gerdau (GGB), and Ternium (TX). These companies are all part of the "steel works" industry.

Aqua Metals vs.

Aqua Metals (NASDAQ:AQMS) and Broadwind (NASDAQ:BWEN) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation and earnings.

Broadwind has a net margin of 2.01% compared to Aqua Metals' net margin of 0.00%. Broadwind's return on equity of 5.39% beat Aqua Metals' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Aqua MetalsN/A -91.44% -68.32%
Broadwind 2.01%5.39%2.48%

Aqua Metals currently has a consensus target price of $30.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1,356.31%. Broadwind has a consensus target price of $5.17, suggesting a potential upside of 188.64%. Given Aqua Metals' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Aqua Metals is more favorable than Broadwind.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Aqua Metals
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Broadwind
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Aqua Metals received 53 more outperform votes than Broadwind when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.67% of users gave Aqua Metals an outperform vote while only 60.95% of users gave Broadwind an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Aqua MetalsOutperform Votes
259
61.67%
Underperform Votes
161
38.33%
BroadwindOutperform Votes
206
60.95%
Underperform Votes
132
39.05%

22.0% of Aqua Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.3% of Broadwind shares are held by institutional investors. 4.5% of Aqua Metals shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Broadwind shares are held by 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.

Broadwind has higher revenue and earnings than Aqua Metals. Aqua Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Broadwind, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Aqua Metals$30K489.73-$23.94M-$4.76-0.43
Broadwind$156.17M0.25$7.65M$0.1412.79

In the previous week, Broadwind had 1 more articles in the media than Aqua Metals. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Broadwind and 2 mentions for Aqua Metals. Broadwind's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Aqua Metals' score of 0.92 indicating that Broadwind is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Aqua Metals Positive
Broadwind Positive

Aqua Metals has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Broadwind has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Broadwind beats Aqua Metals on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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AQMS vs. The Competition

MetricAqua MetalsSecondary nonferrous metals IndustryBusiness SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$14.69M$739.67M$7.08B$8.80B
Dividend YieldN/AN/A2.30%4.00%
P/E Ratio-0.4313.7227.4016.96
Price / Sales489.73244.96402.78123.65
Price / CashN/A3.5531.1037.77
Price / Book0.431.005.824.89
Net Income-$23.94M$55.68M$128.95M$228.40M
7 Day Performance-17.27%-11.38%-2.57%-2.25%
1 Month Performance4.04%-2.50%2.66%-0.41%
1 Year Performance-83.13%-63.74%16.57%13.53%

Aqua Metals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AQMS
Aqua Metals
2.5501 of 5 stars
$2.10
+0.7%
$30.00
+1,332.0%
-83.1%$14.69M$30,000.00-0.4420Short Interest ↑
BWEN
Broadwind
4.4461 of 5 stars
$2.18
-1.4%
$5.17
+137.0%
-29.0%$48.21M$156.17M15.57490Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Positive News
OCC
Optical Cable
0.405 of 5 stars
$4.69
-0.8%
N/A+60.7%$38.55M$66.67M-6.17327Short Interest ↑
Gap Up
APWC
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable
1.0877 of 5 stars
$1.44
-1.0%
N/A-2.4%$29.58M$468.13M0.001,210Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
Positive News
INHD
Inno
N/A$5.04
+0.8%
N/A-55.1%$21.21M$885,495.000.0011Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↓
Positive News
HWM
Howmet Aerospace
4.0234 of 5 stars
$112.59
-0.2%
$115.59
+2.7%
+114.5%$45.74B$7.27B42.9723,200Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
TS
Tenaris
1.5137 of 5 stars
$38.18
+1.1%
$42.75
+12.0%
+21.4%$22.20B$13.09B8.3229,134
MT
ArcelorMittal
4.0598 of 5 stars
$22.13
-0.3%
$31.17
+40.8%
-15.8%$17.82B$62.28B-15.69126,756
PKX
POSCO
3.6176 of 5 stars
$44.86
+1.4%
N/A-47.7%$13.62B$73.48T15.7444,501
GGB
Gerdau
3.9375 of 5 stars
$2.92
+4.3%
$5.00
+71.2%
-24.1%$6.07B$13.81B6.3727,371Short Interest ↑
TX
Ternium
4.5334 of 5 stars
$29.70
+1.9%
$55.00
+85.2%
-30.2%$5.83B$18.70B74.2534,458Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:AQMS) was last updated on 1/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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