Reviewing Orbit International (OTCMKTS:ORBT) & YASKAWA Electric (OTCMKTS:YASKF)

Orbit International (OTCMKTS:ORBT) and YASKAWA Electric (OTCMKTS:YASKF) are both industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings and profitability.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Orbit International and YASKAWA Electric”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Orbit International	$27.56 million	0.60	-$1.15 million	($0.23)	-20.22
YASKAWA Electric	N/A	N/A	N/A	$85.05	0.44

YASKAWA Electric has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Orbit International. Orbit International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than YASKAWA Electric, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

26.8% of YASKAWA Electric shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.3% of Orbit International shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Orbit International and YASKAWA Electric’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Orbit International	-1.88%	-2.91%	-2.00%
YASKAWA Electric	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Orbit International and YASKAWA Electric, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Orbit International	0	0	0	0	N/A
YASKAWA Electric	0	0	0	0	N/A

Dividends

Orbit International pays an annual dividend of $0.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. YASKAWA Electric pays an annual dividend of $11.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 30.0%. Orbit International pays out -8.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. YASKAWA Electric pays out 13.1% 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.

Summary

YASKAWA Electric beats Orbit International on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Orbit International

Orbit International Corp. engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of electronic components and subsystems, and commercial and custom power units for prime contractors, government procurement agencies, and research and development laboratories worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Electronics Group and Power Group. The Electronics Group segment designs, manufactures, and sells customized electronic components and subsystems. This segment offers remote control units, intercommunication panels, displays, keyboards, keypads and pointing devices, operator control trays, and command display units, as well as provides LCD display modules, military simulation and training bezels, electronic control assemblies, and multi-function displays design and enhancement services. The Power Group segment designs and manufactures commercial power units, AC power, frequency converters, uninterruptible power supplies, armament systems, and commercial-off-the-shelf power solutions, as well as inverters. The company was formerly known as Orbit Instrument Corp. and changed its name to Orbit International Corp. in July 1991. Orbit International Corp. was founded in 1957 and is based in Hauppauge, New York.

About YASKAWA Electric

YASKAWA Electric Corporation engages in motion control, robotics, system engineering, and other businesses worldwide. It manufactures and sells various AC drives, including general purpose AC drives, specific purpose AC drives, AC Drive for systems, regenerative energy saving units, and PM motors for use in household appliances, such as air conditioners and refrigerators; social infrastructures comprising elevators, escalators, trains, cranes, fans, and pumps; and factories that manufacture printing machinery, textile machinery, rubber machinery, and other materials. The company also offers rotary servo motors, direct drive servo motors, linear motors/linear sliders, machine controllers, positioning sensor encoders, and servo amplifiers for use in industrial robots, semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, machine tools, flat panel display manufacturing equipment, and metal working machines; and arc and spot welding, handling/assembling, collaborative, biomedical, palletizing, press handling, sealing/cutting/laser machining, deburring, painting, glass substrates transfer, and semiconductor wafer transfer robots for use in semiconductor wafer conveyance, arc welding, spot welding, handling, assembly, and palletizing applications. In addition, it provides industrial system electrical products, such as medium-voltage AC drives, system use AC drives, and system controllers for use in iron and steel systems, water and wastewater treatment, crane, and paper-making/film/port cargo handling/fiber/printing applications. Further, the company offers equipment for energy saving and creation comprising PV inverters, systems for large wind turbines, control equipment for small-scale power generation, and motor drive systems for use in photovoltaic power generation, large-scale wind power generation, small-scale power generation, and electric vehicles. The company was founded in 1915 and is headquartered in Kitakyushu, Japan.