Posted by admin on Aug 7th, 2022

Marui Group (OTCMKTS:MAURY – Get Rating) and HOYA (OTCMKTS:HOCPY – Get Rating) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, dividends and profitability.

This table compares Marui Group and HOYA’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

Marui Group has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HOYA has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Marui Group and HOYA, as reported by MarketBeat.

This table compares Marui Group and HOYA’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

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

1.3% of Marui Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.0% of HOYA shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Marui Group pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. HOYA pays an annual dividend of $0.81 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Marui Group pays out 35.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HOYA pays out 20.4% 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.

HOYA beats Marui Group on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

Marui Group Co., Ltd., an investment holding company, engages in the retailing and FinTech businesses in Japan. The company engages in the rental and the management of commercial property, purchasing and sale of clothes and accessories, space production, advertising, fashion distribution, general building management, etc.; and provision of credit card services, cash advance services, rent guarantee services, information system services, real estate rental, etc. It is involved in the operation of Marui/Modi stores, online shopping and mail-order, specialty store, credit loan, collection and management of receivables, design and interior decoration, planning and making of advertisement, trucking, forwarding, software development, building management, and security service businesses. Marui Group Co., Ltd. was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

HOYA Corporation operates as a med-tech company, and a supplier of high-tech and medical products worldwide. The company offers life care products, including eyeglass and contact lenses; medical endoscopes; intraocular lenses; laparoscopic surgical instruments; automatic endoscope cleaning equipment; and medical related products, such as prosthetic ceramic fillers and metallic implants. 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; photomasks for liquid crystal display panels; 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 offers ReadSpeaker, a speech synthesis software; and cloud services comprising Kinnosuke that is a time and attendance management service, and Yonosuke, an electronic payslip service. HOYA Corporation was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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