How to buy Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation stock

Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation is a metal fabrication business based in the US. Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares (AP) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation employs 1,533 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around 0.00.

Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation share price

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Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-04-30.

52-week range	$2.70 - $8.81
50-day moving average	$7.13
200-day moving average	$6.21
Wall St. target price	$5.00
PE ratio	12.9652
Dividend yield	$0 (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	$0.54

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Is Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation under- or over-valued?

Valuing Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's P/E ratio

Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 13x. In other words, Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares trade at around 13x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's EBITDA

Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $24.1 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation financials

Revenue TTM	$328.5 million
Operating margin TTM	1.68%
Gross profit TTM	$71 million
Return on assets TTM	0.71%
Return on equity TTM	13.04%
Profit margin	2.43%
Book value	$4.18
Market capitalisation	$132 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares

There are currently 670,213 Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares held short by investors – that's known as Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's "short interest". This figure is 1.3% down from 678,957 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares can be evaluated.

Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares traded daily (recently around 73007.952069717). Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's SIR currently stands at 9.18. In other words for every 100,000 Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares traded daily on the market, roughly 9180 shares are currently held short.

However Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares, or, against the total number of tradable Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's short interest could be expressed as 0.04% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares in existence, roughly 40 shares are currently held short) or 0.0648% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares, roughly 65 shares are currently held short).

A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation.

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Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation share dividends

We're not expecting Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's shares ever split?

Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's shares were split on a 4:3 basis on 1 February 1981. So if you had owned 3 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 4 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 25% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares which in turn could have impacted Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's share price.

Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's shares have ranged in value from as little as $2.7 up to $8.81. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's is 1.1164. This would suggest that Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation overview

Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells specialty metal products and customized equipment to commercial and industrial users worldwide. It operates in two segments, Forged and Cast Engineered Products; and Air and Liquid Processing. The Forged and Cast Engineered Products segment produces forged hardened steel rolls that are used in cold rolling mills by producers of steel, aluminum, and other metals; cast rolls for hot and cold strip, medium/heavy section, hot strip finishing, roughing, and plate mills in various iron and steel qualities; and forged engineered products for use in the steel distribution, oil and gas, and aluminum and plastic extrusion industries. This segment also offers forged rolls for cluster and Z-Hi mills; work rolls for narrow and wide strip and aluminum mills; back-up rolls for narrow strip mills; leveling rolls and shafts; and distributes tool steels, alloys, and carbon round bars. The Air and Liquid Processing segment produces custom-engineered finned tube heat exchange coils and related heat transfer products for various industries, including OEM/commercial, nuclear power generation, and industrial manufacturing; and custom-designed air handling systems for institutional, pharmaceutical, and general industrial building markets. This segment also provides centrifugal pumps the fossil-fueled power generation, marine defense, and industrial refrigeration industries. The company was incorporated in 1929 and is headquartered in Carnegie, Pennsylvania.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 26.748% of Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation shares are held by insiders and 48.054% by institutions.

• How many people work for Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation?

  Latest data suggests 1,533 work at Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation.

• When does the fiscal year end for Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation?

  Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation based?

  Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's address is: 726 Bell Avenue, Carnegie, PA, United States, 15106

• What is Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's ISIN number?

  Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's international securities identification number is: US0320371034

• What is Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's CUSIP number?

  Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 032037103