Head to Head Comparison: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. Sponsored GDR (OTCMKTS:HNHPF) & Hoya (OTCMKTS:HOCPY)

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. Sponsored GDR (OTCMKTS:HNHPF) and Hoya (OTCMKTS:HOCPY) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. Sponsored GDR and Hoya”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. Sponsored GDR	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Hoya	$5.69 billion	8.01	$1.33 billion	$4.00	33.19

Hoya has higher revenue and earnings than Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. Sponsored GDR.

Volatility & Risk

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. Sponsored GDR has a beta of 0.83, indicating that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hoya has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. Sponsored GDR and Hoya’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. Sponsored GDR	N/A	N/A	N/A
Hoya	23.57%	21.24%	16.79%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. Sponsored GDR and Hoya, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. Sponsored GDR	0	0	0	1	4.00
Hoya	0	0	0	2	4.00

Dividends

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. Sponsored GDR pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Hoya pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Hoya pays out 31.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

0.1% of Hoya shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Hoya beats Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. Sponsored GDR on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. Sponsored GDR

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. provides electronic OEM services. The company offers consumer electronics comprising of television sets, game consoles, set-top boxes, and speakers. It also provides cloud networking products consisting of routers, servers, edge computing, data centers, and satellite communications and other related equipment. In addition, the company offers desktop computers, notebook computers, tablets, business machines, printers, etc. Further, it provides connectors, precision optical components, lenses, electronic components, semiconductor products, automotive electronic parts, cutting tools/mold fixtures, and mechanical equipment. The company operates in Taiwan, Mainland China, India, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, the United States, Brazil, and Mexico. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan.

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.