Even though CoH requires less APM compared to Starcraft, 100 (preferably 200) is the minimum APM to be competitive in my opinion. I improved my APM from ~110 to ~160 quite quickly by using an action counter. It helped me a lot especially in late game.
I highly doubt that so high APM number is needed in coh2. Most of the players just get high APM because they spam the same order 2-5 times which is not necessary. Watch VonIvan's stream some time, his APM is very low but he is still in the top 10. So it's only about what you do and when, not about click spamming.
If you average 100-200 APM in CoH2 you are just click spamming unnecessarily
Even in intense situations you don't need 200 APM.