Ascent Industries (NASDAQ:ACNT) & BrewBilt Manufacturing (OTCMKTS:BBRW) Financial Review

Ascent Industries (NASDAQ:ACNT) and BrewBilt Manufacturing (OTCMKTS:BBRW) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.

Risk and Volatility

Ascent Industries has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BrewBilt Manufacturing has a beta of 5.1, indicating that its stock price is 410% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Ascent Industries and BrewBilt Manufacturing, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ascent Industries	1	0	0	0	1.00
BrewBilt Manufacturing	0	0	0	0	0.00

Institutional and Insider Ownership

26.1% of Ascent Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 9.3% of Ascent Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Ascent Industries and BrewBilt Manufacturing’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ascent Industries	0.85%	-1.63%	-1.09%
BrewBilt Manufacturing	N/A	N/A	N/A

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Ascent Industries and BrewBilt Manufacturing”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ascent Industries	$177.87 million	0.84	-$13.60 million	$0.12	132.71
BrewBilt Manufacturing	$1.44 million	0.21	-$7.49 million	($0.24)	0.00

BrewBilt Manufacturing has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ascent Industries. BrewBilt Manufacturing is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ascent Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Ascent Industries beats BrewBilt Manufacturing on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Ascent Industries

Ascent Industries Co. an industrials company, produces and distributes stainless steel pipe and tube and specialty chemicals in the United States and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Tubular Products and Specialty Chemicals. It manufactures welded pipes and tubes, primarily from stainless steel, duplex, and nickel alloys; and ornamental stainless steel tubes for automotive, commercial transportation, marine, food services, construction, furniture, healthcare, and other industries. The company also produces defoamers, surfactants, and lubricating agents for end users, including companies that supply agrochemical paper, metal working, coatings, water treatment, paint, mining, oil and gas, and janitorial and other applications. In addition, it provides contract manufacturing services, as well as operates as a multi-purpose plant to process various difficult to handle materials, including flammable solvents, viscous liquids, and granular solids. The company was formerly known as Synalloy Corporation and changed its name to Ascent Industries Co. in August 2022. Ascent Industries Co. was founded in 1945 and is based in Oak Brook, Illinois.

About BrewBilt Manufacturing

BrewBilt Manufacturing Inc. custom designs, hand crafts, and integrates brewing, fermentation, and distillation processing systems for the craft beer industry in California. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Grass Valley, California.