Asia Pacific Wire & Cable (NASDAQ:APWC – Get Free Report) and Allient (NASDAQ:ALNT – Get Free Report) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Asia Pacific Wire & Cable and Allient, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Asia Pacific Wire & Cable | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Allient | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3.17 |
Allient has a consensus price target of $84.00, indicating a potential downside of 10.81%. Given Allient’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Allient is more favorable than Asia Pacific Wire & Cable.
Valuation & Earnings
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Asia Pacific Wire & Cable | $489.68 million | 0.06 | $3.67 million | $0.28 | 5.01 |
| Allient | $554.48 million | 2.89 | $22.03 million | $1.70 | 55.40 |
Allient has higher revenue and earnings than Asia Pacific Wire & Cable. Asia Pacific Wire & Cable is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Allient, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
1.0% of Asia Pacific Wire & Cable shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.6% of Allient shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Asia Pacific Wire & Cable shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of Allient shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Profitability
This table compares Asia Pacific Wire & Cable and Allient’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Asia Pacific Wire & Cable | 1.28% | 2.16% | 1.35% |
| Allient | 4.98% | 13.55% | 7.05% |
Risk & Volatility
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Allient has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Allient beats Asia Pacific Wire & Cable on 15 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Asia Pacific Wire & Cable
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corp. Ltd. is a holding company, which engages in the business of owning operating companies in the power cable, telecommunication cable, enameled wire, and electronic cable industry. It operates through the following segments: North Asia, Thailand, and Rest of the World. The company was founded on September 19, 1996 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.
About Allient
Allient Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells precision and specialty controlled motion components and systems for various industries in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. It offers brush and brushless DC motors, brushless servo and torque motors, coreless DC motors, integrated brushless motor-drives, gearmotors, gearing, modular digital servo drives, motion controllers, optical encoders, active and passive filters, input/output modules, industrial communications gateways, light-weighting technologies, and other controlled motion-related products, as well as nano precision positioning systems, servo control systems, and digital servo amplifiers and drives. The company sells its products to end customers and original equipment manufacturers in vehicle, medical, aerospace and defense, and industrial markets through direct sales force, authorized manufacturers’ representatives, and distributors. The company was formerly known as Allied Motion Technologies Inc. and changed its name to Allient Inc. in August 2023. Allient Inc. was incorporated in 1962 and is headquartered in Amherst, New York.
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