Contrasting Casio Computer (OTCMKTS:CSIOY) and Hoya (OTCMKTS:HOCPY)

Hoya (OTCMKTS:HOCPY) and Casio Computer (OTCMKTS:CSIOY) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, valuation, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Hoya and Casio Computer, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Hoya	0	0	0	3	4.00
Casio Computer	0	0	0	0	0.00

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Hoya and Casio Computer”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Hoya	$5.69 billion	9.68	$1.35 billion	$4.08	39.33
Casio Computer	$1.72 billion	1.13	$53.22 million	$3.71	21.99

Hoya has higher revenue and earnings than Casio Computer. Casio Computer is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hoya, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Hoya and Casio Computer’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Hoya	23.33%	21.01%	16.56%
Casio Computer	4.89%	4.10%	2.69%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

0.1% of Hoya shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Dividends

Hoya pays an annual dividend of $1.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Casio Computer pays an annual dividend of $2.19 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Hoya pays out 30.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Casio Computer pays out 59.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Risk & Volatility

Hoya has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Casio Computer has a beta of 0.2, suggesting that its share price is 80% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Hoya beats Casio Computer on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

About Casio Computer

Casio Computer Co.,Ltd. develops, produces, and sells consumer, system equipment, and other products. The company operates in Timepieces, Consumer, System Equipment, and Other segments. It offers timepieces, electronic dictionaries, calculators, label printers, electronic musical instruments, handheld terminals, cash registers, management support systems, data projectors, formed parts, and molds products. The company was incorporated in 1946 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.