ACNT vs. USAP, NWPX, UFI, DNMR, FTEL, RSSS, TSE, ARC, HURC, and PYRGF
Should you be buying Ascent Industries stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ascent Industries include Universal Stainless & Alloy Products (USAP), Northwest Pipe (NWPX), Unifi (UFI), Danimer Scientific (DNMR), Fitell (FTEL), Research Solutions (RSSS), Trinseo (TSE), ARC Document Solutions (ARC), Hurco Companies (HURC), and PyroGenesis Canada (PYRGF).
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products (NASDAQ:USAP) and Ascent Industries (NASDAQ:ACNT) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products presently has a consensus price target of $30.00, suggesting a potential downside of 2.63%. Ascent Industries has a consensus price target of $20.00, suggesting a potential upside of 99.40%. Given Universal Stainless & Alloy Products' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ascent Industries is more favorable than Universal Stainless & Alloy Products.
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products has a beta of 1.02, meaning that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ascent Industries has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products has higher revenue and earnings than Ascent Industries. Ascent Industries is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products received 264 more outperform votes than Ascent Industries when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Ascent Industries an outperform vote while only 56.26% of users gave Universal Stainless & Alloy Products an outperform vote.
62.2% of Universal Stainless & Alloy Products shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.1% of Ascent Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 9.9% of Universal Stainless & Alloy Products 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 company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Ascent Industries had 6 more articles in the media than Universal Stainless & Alloy Products. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Ascent Industries and 2 mentions for Universal Stainless & Alloy Products. Ascent Industries' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Universal Stainless & Alloy Products' score of -0.12 indicating that Universal Stainless & Alloy Products is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products has a net margin of 3.21% compared to Universal Stainless & Alloy Products' net margin of -11.07%. Ascent Industries' return on equity of 4.25% beat Universal Stainless & Alloy Products' return on equity.
Summary
Universal Stainless & Alloy Products beats Ascent Industries on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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