SiTime (NASDAQ:SITM) vs. Hoya (OTCMKTS:HOCPY) Financial Review

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

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Hoya and SiTime”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	8.99	$1.35 billion	$4.08	36.51
SiTime	$202.70 million	32.90	-$93.60 million	($2.96)	-86.31

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

Insider and Institutional Ownership

0.1% of Hoya shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.3% of SiTime shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of SiTime shares are owned by insiders. 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.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of current ratings for Hoya and SiTime, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Hoya	0	0	0	3	4.00
SiTime	2	0	5	0	2.43

SiTime has a consensus price target of $329.17, suggesting a potential upside of 28.84%. Given SiTime’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SiTime is more favorable than Hoya.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Hoya	23.33%	21.15%	16.72%
SiTime	-25.18%	-5.69%	-4.76%

Risk and Volatility

Hoya has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SiTime has a beta of 2.36, indicating that its stock price is 136% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Hoya beats SiTime on 9 of the 15 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 SiTime

SiTime Corporation designs, develops, and sells silicon timing systems solutions in Taiwan, Hong Kong, the United States, Singapore, and internationally. The company provides resonators and clock integrated circuits, and various types of oscillators. It serves various markets, including communications, datacenter, enterprise, automotive, industrial, internet of things, mobile, consumer, and aerospace and defense. The company sells its products directly to customers, distributors, and resellers. SiTime Corporation was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California.