Head to Head Contrast: Omron (OTCMKTS:OMRNY) versus Microwave Filter (OTCMKTS:MFCO)

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Microwave Filter and Omron”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Microwave Filter	N/A	N/A	N/A	($0.14)	-2.93
Omron	$5.26 billion	1.05	$107.39 million	$1.11	24.21

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

Institutional & Insider Ownership

1.1% of Omron shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.9% of Microwave Filter shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Microwave Filter and Omron’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Microwave Filter	N/A	N/A	N/A
Omron	4.04%	3.46%	2.39%

Volatility & Risk

Microwave Filter has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Omron has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Omron beats Microwave Filter on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Microwave Filter

Microwave Filter Company, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells electronic filters for radio and microwave frequencies primarily in the United States. It manufactures RF filters and related components for eliminating interference and facilitating signal processing for cable television, broadcast, commercial and military communications, avionics, radar, navigation, and defense markets. The company also designs waveguide, stripline/microstrip, transmission line, miniature/subminiature, and lumped constant filters. Its configurations include bandpass, highpass, lowpass, bandstop, multiplexers, tunable notch, tunable bandpass, high power filters, amplitude equalized, delay equalized, and filter networks. The company serves 5G, cable television, television and radio broadcast, satellite broadcast, mobile radio, commercial, and aerospace and defense electronics markets. Microwave Filter Company, Inc. was incorporated in 1967 and is based in East Syracuse, New York.

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.