Financial Comparison: Kraken Robotics (OTCMKTS:KRKNF) and Hoya (OTCMKTS:HOCPY)

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

Analyst Recommendations

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

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Hoya	0	0	0	1	4.00
Kraken Robotics	1	2	2	1	2.50

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Hoya and Kraken Robotics”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Hoya	$5.88 billion	9.52	$1.67 billion	$5.04	33.20
Kraken Robotics	$73.15 million	22.95	$2.05 million	($0.01)	-452.00

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

Insider & Institutional Ownership

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

Profitability

This table compares Hoya and Kraken Robotics’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Hoya	27.58%	25.15%	19.90%
Kraken Robotics	-0.68%	-0.35%	-0.19%

Summary

Hoya beats Kraken Robotics on 9 of the 11 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 Kraken Robotics

Kraken Robotics Inc., a marine technology company, engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of sonar and optical sensors, batteries, and underwater robotic equipment for unmanned underwater vehicles used in military and commercial applications in Canada, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North America, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Products, and Services. The company offers AquaPix miniature interferometric synthetic aperture sonar (MINSAS), a configurable MINSAS; and SeaPower, a pressure tolerant deep sea batteries. It also provides Kraken Active Towed Fish (KATFISH), a towed underwater vehicle for high speed and high resolution seabed mapping; LARS, an autonomous launch and recovery system that enable an unmanned vehicle and its payloads to be brought aboard to a host ship; Acoustic Core that provides a 3D image of stratigraphy layers and anomalies across the entire foundation footprint; and Sub-Bottom Imager used to view image beneath the seabed. In addition, the company designs and manufactures pressure tolerant batteries, battery management systems, and electronics; and robotics as a service. The company was formerly known as Kraken Sonar Inc. and changed its name to Kraken Robotics Inc. in September 2017. Kraken Robotics Inc. is headquartered in Mount Pearl, Canada.