Head to Head Analysis: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare (OTCMKTS:FSPKF) & HOYA (OTCMKTS:HOCPY)

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare (OTCMKTS:FSPKF) and HOYA (OTCMKTS:HOCPY) are both medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Fisher & Paykel Healthcare and HOYA, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare	0	0	0	0	N/A
HOYA	0	0	0	0	N/A

Institutional & Insider Ownership

31.4% of Fisher & Paykel Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of HOYA shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Fisher & Paykel Healthcare and HOYA’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare	N/A	N/A	N/A
HOYA	23.32%	20.72%	16.44%

Dividends

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare pays an annual dividend of $0.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. HOYA pays an annual dividend of $0.61 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Fisher & Paykel Healthcare pays out 38.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HOYA pays out 17.1% 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. HOYA is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Fisher & Paykel Healthcare and HOYA”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare	N/A	N/A	N/A	$0.17	115.37
HOYA	$5.49 billion	8.63	$1.26 billion	$3.57	37.83

HOYA has higher revenue and earnings than Fisher & Paykel Healthcare. HOYA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

HOYA beats Fisher & Paykel Healthcare on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Fisher & Paykel Healthcare

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Limited, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, markets, and sells medical device products and systems worldwide. It also provides its products for use in acute and chronic respiratory care, and surgery, as well as the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in the home and hospital. The company offers adult respiratory products, including optiflow nasal high flow therapy, invasive ventilation, and noninvasive ventilation. In addition, it provides infant respiratory products, such as resuscitation, invasive ventilation, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy, and nasal high flow therapy products. Further, the company offers hospital products, including humidification products, breathing circuits, chambers, masks, nasal cannulas, surgical, accessories, and interfaces; and homecare products that include masks, CPAP devices, software and data management products, humidifiers, and accessories. Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Limited was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.

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.