Hoya (OTCMKTS:HOCPY) versus Expion360 (NASDAQ:XPON) Head-To-Head Survey

Expion360 (NASDAQ:XPON) and Hoya (OTCMKTS:HOCPY) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

34.5% of Expion360 shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Hoya shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Expion360 shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Expion360 and Hoya”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Expion360	$9.65 million	0.79	-$6.24 million	($1.38)	-0.51
Hoya	$5.69 billion	11.08	$1.35 billion	$4.89	38.08

Hoya has higher revenue and earnings than Expion360. Expion360 is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hoya, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Expion360 and Hoya, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Expion360	1	0	0	0	1.00
Hoya	0	0	0	3	4.00

Profitability

This table compares Expion360 and Hoya’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Expion360	-64.61%	-119.83%	-68.13%
Hoya	27.22%	24.88%	19.63%

Risk & Volatility

Expion360 has a beta of 0.32, meaning that its share price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hoya has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.

Summary

Hoya beats Expion360 on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Expion360

Expion360 Inc. designs, assembles, manufactures, and sells lithium iron phosphate batteries and supporting accessories under the VPR 4EVER name for recreational vehicles, marine, golf, industrial, residential, and off-the-grid applications. It provides battery monitors; direct current battery chargers; various models of industrial tie-downs; power generators AURA POWERCAP; terminal blocks; and bus bars. The company also engages in the development of e360 Home Energy Storage systems; e360 SmartTalk mobile application. It serves dealers, wholesalers, private label customers, and original equipment manufacturers in the United States and internationally. The company was formerly known as Yozamp Products Company, LLC and changed its name to Expion360 Inc. in November 2021. Expion360 Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Redmond, Oregon.

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.