Hoya (OTCMKTS:HOCPY – Get Free Report) and Bel Fuse (NASDAQ:BELFB – Get Free Report) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
Dividends
Hoya pays an annual dividend of $1.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Bel Fuse pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Hoya pays out 30.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bel Fuse pays out 5.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Institutional and Insider Ownership
0.1% of Hoya shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 58.4% of Bel Fuse shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.4% of Bel Fuse shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Earnings and Valuation
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Hoya | $5.69 billion | 9.64 | $1.35 billion | $4.08 | 39.16 |
| Bel Fuse | $534.79 million | 4.74 | $40.96 million | $5.20 | 38.48 |
Hoya has higher revenue and earnings than Bel Fuse. Bel Fuse 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 summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Hoya and Bel Fuse, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Hoya | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4.00 |
| Bel Fuse | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3.00 |
Bel Fuse has a consensus target price of $173.00, suggesting a potential downside of 13.55%. Given Bel Fuse’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bel Fuse is more favorable than Hoya.
Profitability
This table compares Hoya and Bel Fuse’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Hoya | 23.33% | 21.01% | 16.56% |
| Bel Fuse | 10.04% | 16.34% | 6.76% |
Risk and Volatility
Hoya has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bel Fuse has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Hoya beats Bel Fuse on 10 of the 17 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 Bel Fuse
Bel Fuse Inc. designs, manufactures, markets, and sells products that power, protect, and connect electronic circuits. The company’s products are used in the networking, telecommunications, computing, general industrial, high-speed data transmission, military, commercial aerospace, transportation, and e-Mobility industries. It provides power solutions and protection products, including front-end power supplies, board-mount power products, industrial and transportation power products, external power products, and circuit protection products. The company also offers connectivity solutions, such as expanded beam fiber optic connectors, cable assemblies, and active optical devices; copper-based connectors/cable assemblies; radio frequency connectors, cable assemblies, microwave devices, and low loss cables; and ethernet, I/O, and industrial and power connectivity products. In addition, it provides magnetic solutions comprising integrated connector modules, power transformers, SMD power inductors and SMPS transformers, and ethernet discrete components. The company sells its products through direct strategic account managers, regional sales managers working with independent sales representative organizations, and authorized distributors in the United States, the People’s Republic of China, Macao, the United Kingdom, Slovakia, Germany, India, Switzerland, and internationally. Bel Fuse Inc. was incorporated in 1949 and is headquartered in West Orange, New Jersey.
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