LEN.B vs. LEN, IBP, GEO, XIN, SHW, CRH, DHI, URI, OTIS, and PWR
Should you be buying Lennar stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lennar include Lennar (LEN), Installed Building Products (IBP), The GEO Group (GEO), Xinyuan Real Estate (XIN), Sherwin-Williams (SHW), CRH (CRH), D.R. Horton (DHI), United Rentals (URI), Otis Worldwide (OTIS), and Quanta Services (PWR).
Lennar (NYSE:LEN) and Lennar (NYSE:LEN.B) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership and dividends.
Lennar currently has a consensus price target of $163.88, indicating a potential upside of 5.95%. Given Lennar's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Lennar is more favorable than Lennar.
Lennar pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Lennar pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Lennar pays out 14.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Lennar pays out 14.0% 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. Lennar has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Lennar had 13 more articles in the media than Lennar. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Lennar and 0 mentions for Lennar. Lennar's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Lennar's score of 0.00 indicating that Lennar is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Lennar is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lennar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lennar has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lennar has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lennar received 778 more outperform votes than Lennar when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.27% of users gave Lennar an outperform vote while only 56.49% of users gave Lennar an outperform vote.
81.1% of Lennar shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.3% of Lennar shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.4% of Lennar shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.0% of Lennar shares are owned by 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.
Summary
Lennar beats Lennar on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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