Asia Pacific Wire & Cable (NASDAQ:APWC) and Allient (NASDAQ:ALNT) Head to Head Analysis

Allient (NASDAQ:ALNT) and Asia Pacific Wire & Cable (NASDAQ:APWC) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, earnings and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Allient and Asia Pacific Wire & Cable, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Allient	0	0	5	1	3.17
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable	1	0	0	0	1.00

Allient currently has a consensus price target of $84.00, indicating a potential downside of 11.22%. Given Allient’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Allient is more favorable than Asia Pacific Wire & Cable.

Volatility & Risk

Allient has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Asia Pacific Wire & Cable has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Allient and Asia Pacific Wire & Cable’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Allient	4.98%	13.55%	7.05%
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable	1.28%	2.16%	1.35%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

61.6% of Allient shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.0% of Asia Pacific Wire & Cable shares are held by institutional investors. 15.0% of Allient shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Asia Pacific Wire & Cable shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Allient and Asia Pacific Wire & Cable”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Allient	$574.78 million	2.80	$22.03 million	$1.70	55.66
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable	$489.68 million	0.06	$3.67 million	$0.28	4.97

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.

Summary

Allient beats Asia Pacific Wire & Cable on 15 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

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.