HOV vs. TPH, MHO, CVCO, BZH, DHI, LEN, PHM, NVR, TOL, and MTH
Should you be buying Hovnanian Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hovnanian Enterprises include Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), M/I Homes (MHO), Cavco Industries (CVCO), Beazer Homes USA (BZH), D.R. Horton (DHI), Lennar (LEN), PulteGroup (PHM), NVR (NVR), Toll Brothers (TOL), and Meritage Homes (MTH). These companies are all part of the "homebuilding" industry.
Hovnanian Enterprises (NYSE:HOV) and Tri Pointe Homes (NYSE:TPH) are both construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership and profitability.
In the previous week, Hovnanian Enterprises had 5 more articles in the media than Tri Pointe Homes. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Hovnanian Enterprises and 2 mentions for Tri Pointe Homes. Tri Pointe Homes' average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Hovnanian Enterprises' score of 0.56 indicating that Tri Pointe Homes is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hovnanian Enterprises currently has a consensus price target of $155.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.31%. Tri Pointe Homes has a consensus price target of $40.25, suggesting a potential upside of 8.32%. Given Tri Pointe Homes' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Tri Pointe Homes is more favorable than Hovnanian Enterprises.
Tri Pointe Homes has a net margin of 9.62% compared to Hovnanian Enterprises' net margin of 8.02%. Hovnanian Enterprises' return on equity of 54.85% beat Tri Pointe Homes' return on equity.
Hovnanian Enterprises has a beta of 2.45, meaning that its share price is 145% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tri Pointe Homes has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tri Pointe Homes has higher revenue and earnings than Hovnanian Enterprises. Hovnanian Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Tri Pointe Homes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Tri Pointe Homes received 100 more outperform votes than Hovnanian Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.79% of users gave Tri Pointe Homes an outperform vote while only 54.55% of users gave Hovnanian Enterprises an outperform vote.
65.4% of Hovnanian Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Tri Pointe Homes shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.7% of Hovnanian Enterprises shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Tri Pointe Homes shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Tri Pointe Homes beats Hovnanian Enterprises on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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