Hoya (OTCMKTS:HOCPY – Get Free Report) and MultiSensor AI (NASDAQ:MSAI – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
Profitability
This table compares Hoya and MultiSensor AI’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Hoya | 27.58% | 25.78% | 20.41% |
| MultiSensor AI | -141.70% | -36.08% | -31.31% |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
0.1% of Hoya shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.3% of MultiSensor AI shares are held by institutional investors. 50.8% of MultiSensor AI shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Risk and Volatility
Hoya has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MultiSensor AI has a beta of -0.22, suggesting that its share price is 122% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Hoya and MultiSensor AI, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Hoya | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4.00 |
| MultiSensor AI | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.50 |
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Hoya and MultiSensor AI”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Hoya | $5.88 billion | 9.41 | $1.58 billion | $5.04 | 32.80 |
| MultiSensor AI | $5.55 million | 1.30 | -$11.71 million | ($5.62) | -0.58 |
Hoya has higher revenue and earnings than MultiSensor AI. MultiSensor AI is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hoya, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Hoya beats MultiSensor AI on 11 of the 13 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 MultiSensor AI
MultiSensor AI Holdings, Inc. manufactures and distributes multi-sensor systems for thermographic and other use in various industrial applications in the United States and internationally. The company offers sensor devices ranging from small to large handheld designs with built-in displays and controls, fixed-mounted pan-tilt-zoom single- and multi-sensor camera standalone systems, and mobile multi-sensor payload and gimbal systems for unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned ground vehicles. It also provides on-prem and cloud-based software and services, including training, calibration, and repairs for its customers operating in the distribution and logistics, manufacturing, utility, and oil and gas sectors. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Beaumont, Texas.
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