Financial Contrast: Renishaw (OTCMKTS:RNSHF) and OMRON (OTCMKTS:OMRNY)

OMRON (OTCMKTS:OMRNY) and Renishaw (OTCMKTS:RNSHF) are both mid-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and earnings.

Risk and Volatility

OMRON has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Renishaw has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares OMRON and Renishaw”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
OMRON	$5.67 billion	1.20	$55.92 million	($0.02)	-1,645.18
Renishaw	$870.59 million	3.53	$122.02 million	N/A	N/A

Renishaw has lower revenue, but higher earnings than OMRON.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for OMRON and Renishaw, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
OMRON	0	0	0	0	0.00
Renishaw	1	0	0	0	1.00

Institutional and Insider Ownership

1.1% of OMRON shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.2% of Renishaw shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares OMRON and Renishaw’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
OMRON	-0.11%	-0.09%	-0.06%
Renishaw	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Renishaw beats OMRON on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About OMRON

OMRON Corporation engages in industrial automation, device and module solutions, social systems, and healthcare businesses worldwide. The Industrial Automation Business offers sensors, switches, safety and control components, relays, motion and drives, robotics, energy conservation, power supplies, and automation system products. It also offers environmental mobility, digital devices, food and commodity, logistic and warehouse automation, medical, robotic, panel, vision, software, and traceability related solutions. The Social Systems, Solutions and Service Business provides energy, public transport, traffic safety, network protection, payment, infrastructure monitoring, management service, and DX solutions, as well as offers remote surveillance/monitoring, automation/robotics, software development, engineering/maintenance, and other services. The Healthcare Business provides cardiovascular, respiratory care, pain management, remote patient monitoring, and other solutions. The Device and Module Solutions Business offers relays, switches, connectors, and sensors. OMRON Corporation was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.

About Renishaw

Renishaw plc, an engineering and scientific technology company, designs, manufactures, distributes, sells, and services technological products and services, and analytical instruments and medical devices worldwide. The company offers co-ordinate measuring machine products, hardware, software, retrofits, machine tool probes, diagnostics, encoders, tool setters, performance measurement systems, gauging systems, modular and custom fixtures, and styli products for touch probe systems; machine calibration and optimization products; interferometric laser, magnetic, and open and enclosed optical encoders; and additive manufacturing systems. It also provides healthcare products, such as neurosurgical robots and accessories, neurosurgical planning software, electrode delivery systems, drug delivery systems, Raman microscopes, analysers, and hybrid Raman systems. In addition, the company offers smart manufacturing data platform and asset financing services. It serves the aerospace, automotive, consumer electronics, medical and healthcare, heavy, machine builder, and precision manufacturing industries, as well as scientific, research, and analysis industries. The company was incorporated in 1973 and is headquartered in Wotton-under-Edge, the United Kingdom.