Kimball Electronics (NASDAQ:KE – Get Free Report) and Hoya (OTCMKTS:HOCPY – Get Free Report) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and risk.
Profitability
This table compares Kimball Electronics and Hoya’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Kimball Electronics | 1.62% | 6.28% | 3.26% |
| Hoya | 23.33% | 21.01% | 16.56% |
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Kimball Electronics 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 | |
| Kimball Electronics | $1.49 billion | 0.48 | $16.98 million | $0.95 | 31.02 |
| Hoya | $5.69 billion | 9.19 | $1.35 billion | $4.08 | 37.32 |
Hoya has higher revenue and earnings than Kimball Electronics. Kimball Electronics is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hoya, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current recommendations for Kimball Electronics and Hoya, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Kimball Electronics | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3.00 |
| Hoya | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4.00 |
Kimball Electronics presently has a consensus target price of $32.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.59%. Given Kimball Electronics’ higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Kimball Electronics is more favorable than Hoya.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
76.0% of Kimball Electronics shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Hoya shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.8% of Kimball Electronics shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Risk and Volatility
Kimball Electronics has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hoya has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Hoya beats Kimball Electronics on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Kimball Electronics
Kimball Electronics, Inc. engages in the provision of electronics manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain support services to customers in the automotive, medical, and industrial end markets. The Company also offers contract manufacturing services, including engineering and supply chain support for the production of electronic assemblies and other products, including non-electronic components, medical devices, medical disposables, and precision molded plastics, as well as automation, test, and inspection equipment primarily used in automotive, medical, and industrial applications. In addition, it is also involved in the production and testing of printed circuit board assemblies, as well as clean room assembly, cold chain, and product sterilization management activities. Further, the company offers design services and support, supply chain services and support, rapid prototyping and new product introduction support, product design and process validation and qualification, industrialization and automation of manufacturing processes, reliability testing, aftermarket services, drug delivery devices and solutions with and without electronics, and product life cycle management services, as well as and assembly of medical, automotive, and industrial products. It operates in the United States, China, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Thailand, India, Japan, Vietnam, and internationally. Kimball Electronics, Inc. was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Jasper, Indiana.
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.
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