APWC vs. CVV, GFAI, SNT, AP, TPCS, FATH, FTEK, CLIR, AIU, and ISDR
Should you be buying Asia Pacific Wire & Cable stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Asia Pacific Wire & Cable include CVD Equipment (CVV), Guardforce AI (GFAI), Senstar Technologies (SNT), Ampco-Pittsburgh (AP), TechPrecision (TPCS), Fathom Digital Manufacturing (FATH), Fuel Tech (FTEK), ClearSign Technologies (CLIR), Meta Data (AIU), and Issuer Direct (ISDR). These companies are all part of the "industrial products" sector.
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable (NASDAQ:APWC) and CVD Equipment (NASDAQ:CVV) are both small-cap industrial products companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership and community ranking.
In the previous week, CVD Equipment had 3 more articles in the media than Asia Pacific Wire & Cable. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for CVD Equipment and 3 mentions for Asia Pacific Wire & Cable. Asia Pacific Wire & Cable's average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat CVD Equipment's score of 0.03 indicating that Asia Pacific Wire & Cable is being referred to more favorably in the media.
1.0% of Asia Pacific Wire & Cable shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.6% of CVD Equipment shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Asia Pacific Wire & Cable shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.0% of CVD Equipment shares are owned by 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 a beta of 0.6, meaning that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CVD Equipment has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable has a net margin of 0.00% compared to CVD Equipment's net margin of -27.60%. Asia Pacific Wire & Cable's return on equity of 0.00% beat CVD Equipment's return on equity.
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable has higher revenue and earnings than CVD Equipment.
CVD Equipment received 6 more outperform votes than Asia Pacific Wire & Cable when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 42.91% of users gave CVD Equipment an outperform vote while only 40.60% of users gave Asia Pacific Wire & Cable an outperform vote.
Summary
CVD Equipment beats Asia Pacific Wire & Cable on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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