Hoya (OTCMKTS:HOCPY – Get Free Report) is one of 377 publicly-traded companies in the “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Hoya to similar companies based on the strength of its valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Hoya and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Hoya | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4.00 |
| Hoya Competitors | 2046 | 7582 | 10381 | 650 | 2.47 |
As a group, “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies have a potential upside of 32.80%. Given Hoya’s peers higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Hoya has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.
Risk & Volatility
Hoya has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hoya’s peers have a beta of -0.24, indicating that their average stock price is 124% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares Hoya and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Hoya | 27.58% | 25.78% | 20.41% |
| Hoya Competitors | -167.85% | -25.41% | -6.86% |
Institutional and Insider Ownership
0.1% of Hoya shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.3% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are owned by institutional investors. 16.6% of shares of all “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies are owned 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.
Dividends
Hoya pays an annual dividend of $1.65 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Hoya pays out 32.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components” companies pay a dividend yield of 1.9% and pay out 71.4% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Hoya and its peers revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Net Income | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Hoya | $5.88 billion | $1.58 billion | 33.01 |
| Hoya Competitors | $115.44 billion | $167.44 million | 0.64 |
Hoya’s peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Hoya. Hoya is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.
Summary
Hoya beats its peers on 9 of the 15 factors compared.
About Hoya
HOYA Corporation, a med-tech company, provides high-tech and medical products worldwide. It operates through three segments: Life Care, Telecommunication, and Other. The company offers life care products, including eyeglass and contact lenses; medical endoscopes; intraocular lenses; laparoscopic surgical instruments; automatic endoscope cleaning equipment; and other medical related products, such as prosthetic ceramic fillers and metallic implants for orthopedics. It also operates Eyecity, a specialty retailer of contact lenses. In addition, the company provides information technology products, such as mask blanks and photomasks for manufacturing semiconductor chips; glass disks for hard disk drives; and imaging products that include optical glasses/optical lenses, colored glass filters, and laser equipment/UV light resources. Further, it engages in the research, development, manufacture, and sale of photomasks for manufacturing flat panel displays. Additionally, the company offers ReadSpeaker, a speech synthesis software; and cloud services comprising Kinnosuke, a time and attendance management service, as well as Yonosuke, an electronic payslip service. HOYA Corporation was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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