Contrasting Stardust Power (NASDAQ:SDST) and Hoya (OTCMKTS:HOCPY)

Stardust Power (NASDAQ:SDST) and Hoya (OTCMKTS:HOCPY) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations and risk.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

32.8% of Stardust Power shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Hoya shares are owned by institutional investors. 55.3% of Stardust Power shares are owned 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.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Stardust Power and Hoya, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Stardust Power	1	1	2	2	2.83
Hoya	0	0	0	3	4.00

Stardust Power presently has a consensus target price of $28.17, indicating a potential upside of 540.15%. Given Stardust Power’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Stardust Power is more favorable than Hoya.

Risk & Volatility

Stardust Power has a beta of 0.23, meaning that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hoya has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Stardust Power and Hoya”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Stardust Power	N/A	N/A	-$23.75 million	($5.60)	-0.79
Hoya	$5.69 billion	9.81	$1.35 billion	$4.00	40.64

Hoya has higher revenue and earnings than Stardust Power. Stardust Power 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 Stardust Power and Hoya’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Stardust Power	N/A	N/A	-268.49%
Hoya	23.33%	21.15%	16.72%

Summary

Hoya beats Stardust Power on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Stardust Power

Stardust Power Inc. is a vertically-integrated lithium refinery that engages in producing battery-grade lithium. The company was founded in 2022 and is based in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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.