Contrasting HOYA (OTCMKTS:HOCPY) and OPHIR ENERGY PL/ADR (OTCMKTS:OPHRY)

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares OPHIR ENERGY PL/ADR and HOYA”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
OPHIR ENERGY PL/ADR	$188.53 million	2.78	-$111.79 million	N/A	N/A
HOYA	$5.49 billion	7.98	$1.26 billion	$3.73	33.72

HOYA has higher revenue and earnings than OPHIR ENERGY PL/ADR.

Profitability

This table compares OPHIR ENERGY PL/ADR and HOYA’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
OPHIR ENERGY PL/ADR	N/A	N/A	N/A
HOYA	23.45%	21.06%	16.73%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

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

Risk and Volatility

OPHIR ENERGY PL/ADR has a beta of 0.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HOYA has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

HOYA beats OPHIR ENERGY PL/ADR on 8 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About OPHIR ENERGY PL/ADR

Ophir Energy plc engages in the exploration, development, and production of upstream oil and gas properties in Asia and Africa. The company develops offshore and deep-water oil and gas exploration assets. It has 1 billion barrel of oil equivalent of reserves and resources. Ophir Energy plc was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

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.