CPS Technologies (NASDAQ:CPSH – Get Free Report) and Hoya (OTCMKTS:HOCPY – Get Free Report) are both technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for CPS Technologies and Hoya, as provided by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| CPS Technologies | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Hoya | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4.00 |
CPS Technologies presently has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 70.45%. Given CPS Technologies’ higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe CPS Technologies is more favorable than Hoya.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
11.2% of CPS Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Hoya shares are held by institutional investors. 13.2% of CPS Technologies shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Risk and Volatility
CPS Technologies has a beta of 2.09, indicating that its share price is 109% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hoya has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Profitability
This table compares CPS Technologies and Hoya’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| CPS Technologies | -0.11% | -0.14% | -0.12% |
| Hoya | 27.58% | 25.78% | 20.41% |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares CPS Technologies and Hoya”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| CPS Technologies | $32.35 million | 2.11 | $420,000.00 | ($0.01) | -352.00 |
| Hoya | $5.88 billion | 9.46 | $1.58 billion | $5.04 | 33.00 |
Hoya has higher revenue and earnings than CPS Technologies. CPS Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hoya, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Hoya beats CPS Technologies on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
About CPS Technologies
CPS Technologies Corporation provides advanced material solutions to the transportation, automotive, energy, computing/internet, telecommunication, aerospace, defense, and oil and gas markets in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The company offers metal matrix composites such as baseplates for various applications, including motor controllers used in electric trains, subway cars, wind turbines, and hybrid and electric vehicles; hermetic packages for use in radar, satellite, and avionics applications; baseplates and housings used in modules built with wide band gap semiconductors; and lids and heat spreaders for use in internet switches and routers. It also assembles housings and packages that includes metal matrix composite components for hybrid circuits; and produces armor for naval and military applications. The company sells its products to microelectronics systems companies. The company was formerly known as Ceramics Process Systems Corporation and changed its name to CPS Technologies Corporation in March 2007. CPS Technologies Corporation was incorporated in 1984 and is based in Norton, Massachusetts.
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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