Company Analysis

Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation, Ltd. (APWC)

Nasdaq: APWC · Drawing & Insulating of Nonferrous Wire · Taipei, 106, TW · filing with the SEC since 1997
Grade4.5
◀ Past 4.2● Present 4.7▶ Future 4.7
1 est.

The grade of Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation, Ltd.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.5/10
◀ Past4.230% of the headline
● Present4.740% of the headline
▶ Future4.730% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

4.2/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.1/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 71st percentile among 31 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation, Ltd.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
3.6/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+2.2% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 7 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 36th percentile among 29 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation, Ltd.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $390 million in fiscal 2015 to $473 million in fiscal 2024, up 2.2% a year; it rose in 4 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 26% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 7 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span2.2%bottom 41% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 24% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 36% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak26.4%bottom 43% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
1.0/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 14.3% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 10th percentile among 25 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2024-12-31, Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation, Ltd.'s diluted share count grew about 14.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 9% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 11% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.7/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
4.9/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 3%: 3¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 37%: owes 37¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 49th percentile among 30 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2024-12-31, Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation, Ltd. earned about 3 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 10 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 37 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count was unchanged over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 28% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 47% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 20% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 41% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
4.0/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 40% of 28 in its family; net margin 1.4%.

weight 33% of this tense · 40th percentile among 28 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation, Ltd.'s standing among 28 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $473 million in fiscal 2024 ranks in the bottom 29% by size; a net margin of 1.4% ranks in the bottom 43%; revenue growth of -0.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 48% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$473Mbottom 29% of its family
  • net margin1.4%bottom 43% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-0.3%bottom 48% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

SI estimate
5.2/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 5.2/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 24 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-24 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 24 members with one.
What the record cannot read
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-24 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
family median, 24 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation, Ltd.'s leadership is put at 5.2 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because it files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-24 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 24 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.7/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
3.9/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 39% of 27 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 39th percentile among 27 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation, Ltd.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2024): cash of $34 million against debt of $29 million leaves 1.5% of its assets as net cash, top 38% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 4.2% of revenue (top 50%); a gross margin of 7.4% (bottom 7%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets1.5%top 38% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue4.2%top 50% of its family
  • gross margin7.4%bottom 7% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
4.0/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 40% of 29 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 40th percentile among 29 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation, Ltd.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2024: revenue grew -0.3% a year over the last three filed years against 2.2% over all 10, slowing (bottom 48% of its family); the newest year grew 11% (top 41%); capital spending grew -21% a year (bottom 13%) (its annual reports). Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation, Ltd. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-2.4 points a yearbottom 48% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth11.0%top 41% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-21.0%bottom 13% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
7.5/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 25% of 26 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 75th percentile among 26 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation, Ltd.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $473 million in fiscal 2024 came in 17.5% above the $402 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 40% of its family); net income of $7 million against a prior three-year average of $1 million (top 6%); a net margin of 1.4% against -0.2% before (top 29%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace17.5%top 40% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' averagefive times its prior average or moretop 6% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+1.6 pointstop 29% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton APWC · research, not advice