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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
GEO Geo Group	$23.39 +1.2%	$27.09	$11.75 ▼ $36.46	$3.27B	0.76	2.91 million shs	1.34 million shs
J Jacobs Solutions	$129.71 +1.3%	$125.50	$106.23 ▼ $156.31	$15.39B	0.77	801,572 shs	415,864 shs
MTH Meritage Homes	$66.22 +0.7%	$66.19	$59.27 ▼ $106.99	$4.72B	1.37	873,751 shs	730,562 shs
PHM PulteGroup	$104.42 +0.8%	$101.40	$88.07 ▼ $149.47	$20.76B	1.29	2.02 million shs	1.73 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
GEO Geo Group	-0.40%	-4.19%	-13.78%	-23.78%	+73.60%
J Jacobs Solutions	-1.15%	+0.68%	+1.84%	+3.80%	-8.42%
MTH Meritage Homes	-2.64%	+5.54%	+2.46%	-9.53%	-19.63%
PHM PulteGroup	-1.95%	+4.46%	+5.39%	-1.52%	-5.93%

Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
GEO Geo Group	3.2004 of 5 stars	3.5	2.0	0.0	0.0	2.0	2.5	1.9
J Jacobs Solutions	4.1093 of 5 stars	2.3	5.0	1.7	0.0	3.0	3.3	2.5
MTH Meritage Homes	4.5358 of 5 stars	3.3	3.0	2.5	0.0	2.9	3.3	3.1
PHM PulteGroup	4.9704 of 5 stars	4.3	3.0	2.5	1.9	2.8	1.7	3.8

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
GEO Geo Group	3.00	Buy	$38.00	62.43% Upside
J Jacobs Solutions	2.63	Moderate Buy	$150.86	16.30% Upside
MTH Meritage Homes	2.50	Moderate Buy	$97.72	47.58% Upside
PHM PulteGroup	2.60	Moderate Buy	$134.69	28.99% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest GEO, PHM, J, and MTH Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
6/23/2025	GEO Geo Group	Wedbush Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$36.00
5/12/2025	J Jacobs Solutions	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Hold ➝ Hold	$130.00 ➝ $141.00
5/9/2025	J Jacobs Solutions	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$154.00 ➝ $152.00
5/8/2025	GEO Geo Group	Wedbush Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform	$46.00 ➝ $36.00
5/8/2025	GEO Geo Group	Jones Trading Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$55.00 ➝ $50.00
5/7/2025	J Jacobs Solutions	Royal Bank Of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$152.00 ➝ $154.00
5/5/2025	MTH Meritage Homes	Bank of America Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Buy	$82.00
5/1/2025	MTH Meritage Homes	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$89.00 ➝ $70.00
4/28/2025	MTH Meritage Homes	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Market Perform ➝ Market Perform	$90.00 ➝ $77.00
4/25/2025	MTH Meritage Homes	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target		$107.00
4/25/2025	J Jacobs Solutions	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$161.00 ➝ $151.00

(Data available from 6/26/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
GEO Geo Group	$2.42B	1.36	$1.70 per share	13.73	$9.54 per share	2.45
J Jacobs Solutions	$11.50B	1.36	$7.94 per share	16.34	$36.76 per share	3.53
MTH Meritage Homes	$6.40B	0.74	$11.30 per share	5.86	$71.06 per share	0.93
PHM PulteGroup	$17.95B	1.17	$14.34 per share	7.28	$59.87 per share	1.74

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
GEO Geo Group	$31.97M	$0.19	123.13	18.42	2.60	1.19%	7.36%	2.67%	8/6/2025 (Estimated)
J Jacobs Solutions	$821.09M	$3.63	35.73	18.91	1.80	3.53%	15.67%	6.11%	8/5/2025 (Estimated)
MTH Meritage Homes	$786.19M	$12.23	5.41	6.15	N/A	11.50%	14.28%	10.01%	7/23/2025 (Estimated)
PHM PulteGroup	$3.08B	$14.18	7.36	7.72	0.30	16.45%	22.86%	15.83%	7/22/2025 (Estimated)

Latest GEO, PHM, J, and MTH Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
7/23/2025	Q2 2025	MTH Meritage Homes	$1.99	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.60 billion	N/A
7/22/2025	Q2 2025	PHM PulteGroup	$2.94	N/A	N/A	N/A	$4.42 billion	N/A
5/7/2025	Q1 2025	GEO Geo Group	$0.18	$0.14	-$0.04	$0.14	$611.81 million	$604.65 million
5/6/2025	Q2 2025	J Jacobs Solutions	$1.41	$1.43	+$0.02	$0.05	$3.00 billion	$2.91 billion
4/23/2025	Q1 2025	MTH Meritage Homes	$1.71	$1.69	-$0.02	$1.69	$1.34 billion	$1.36 billion
4/22/2025	Q1 2025	PHM PulteGroup	$2.47	$2.57	+$0.10	$2.57	$3.86 billion	$3.89 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
GEO Geo Group	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
J Jacobs Solutions	$1.28	0.99%	N/A	35.26%	4 Years
MTH Meritage Homes	$1.72	2.60%	N/A	14.06%	2 Years
PHM PulteGroup	$0.88	0.84%	N/A	6.21%	7 Years

Latest GEO, PHM, J, and MTH Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
5/1/2025	PHM PulteGroup	quarterly	$0.22	0.85%	6/17/2025	6/17/2025	7/2/2025
5/22/2025	MTH Meritage Homes	quarterly	$0.43	2.67%	6/16/2025	6/16/2025	6/30/2025
4/30/2025	J Jacobs Solutions	quarterly	$0.32	1.03%	5/23/2025	5/23/2025	6/20/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
GEO Geo Group	1.24	1.29	1.29
J Jacobs Solutions	0.68	1.50	1.50
MTH Meritage Homes	0.35	2.28	2.28
PHM PulteGroup	0.13	0.80	0.80

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
GEO Geo Group	76.10%
J Jacobs Solutions	85.65%
MTH Meritage Homes	98.44%
PHM PulteGroup	89.90%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
GEO Geo Group	5.30%
J Jacobs Solutions	0.38%
MTH Meritage Homes	2.20%
PHM PulteGroup	0.76%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
GEO Geo Group	16,500	141.34 million	133.85 million	Optionable
J Jacobs Solutions	45,000	120.16 million	119.70 million	Optionable
MTH Meritage Homes	1,898	71.83 million	70.25 million	Optionable
PHM PulteGroup	6,793	200.43 million	198.90 million	Optionable

GEO, PHM, J, and MTH Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

PulteGroup: PBG Ratios Of Peers Show Better Value-To-Growth

June 26 at 8:21 AM | seekingalpha.com

Stock Traders Buy High Volume of Call Options on PulteGroup (NYSE:PHM)

June 26 at 3:21 AM | americanbankingnews.com

PulteGroup (PHM) Stock Moves -1.83%: What You Should Know

June 26 at 3:21 AM | msn.com

PulteGroup Sees Unusually Large Options Volume (NYSE:PHM)

June 26 at 2:58 AM | marketbeat.com

PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM) Holdings Decreased by Kentucky Retirement Systems Insurance Trust Fund

June 25 at 3:52 AM | marketbeat.com

Retirement Systems of Alabama Sells 177,272 Shares of PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM)

June 25 at 3:43 AM | marketbeat.com

Envestnet Portfolio Solutions Inc. Decreases Stake in PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM)

June 25 at 3:31 AM | marketbeat.com

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June 24 at 10:00 AM | zacks.com

PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM) Shares Sold by Moran Wealth Management LLC

June 24 at 7:52 AM | marketbeat.com

Janney Montgomery Scott LLC Decreases Stock Holdings in PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM)

June 24 at 3:34 AM | marketbeat.com

PulteGroup (PHM) Gets a Buy from Bank of America Securities

June 23 at 8:59 AM | theglobeandmail.com

Exchange Traded Concepts LLC Decreases Stock Holdings in PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM)

June 22, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Nilsine Partners LLC Has $2.54 Million Stock Holdings in PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM)

June 21, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Brokerages Set PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM) Price Target at $134.69

June 21, 2025 | americanbankingnews.com

CENTRAL TRUST Co Sells 5,903 Shares of PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM)

June 20, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Sowell Financial Services LLC Purchases New Position in PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM)

June 20, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Trivant Custom Portfolio Group LLC Sells 4,510 Shares of PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM)

June 19, 2025 | marketbeat.com

SG Americas Securities LLC Reduces Stock Holdings in PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM)

June 19, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Zacks Research Forecasts PulteGroup's Q1 Earnings (NYSE:PHM)

June 18, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Clarius Group LLC Grows Holdings in PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM)

June 18, 2025 | marketbeat.com

PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM) Receives Consensus Rating of "Moderate Buy" from Analysts

June 18, 2025 | marketbeat.com

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GEO, PHM, J, and MTH Company Descriptions

Geo Group NYSE:GEO

$23.39 +0.28 (+1.23%)

Closing price 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$23.41 +0.02 (+0.07%)

As of 07:50 PM Eastern

The GEO Group, Inc. (NYSE: GEO) engages in ownership, leasing, and management of secure facilities, processing centers, and community-based reentry facilities in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, and South Africa. The company also provides secure facility management services, including the provision of security, administrative, rehabilitation, education, and food services; reentry services, such as temporary housing, programming, employment assistance, and other services; electronic monitoring and supervision services; and transportation services; as well as designs, constructs, and finances new facilities through projects. The company was founded in 1984 and is based in Boca Raton, Florida.

Jacobs Solutions NYSE:J

$129.71 +1.65 (+1.29%)

Closing price 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$129.56 -0.16 (-0.12%)

As of 05:40 PM Eastern

Jacobs Solutions Inc. provides consulting, technical, engineering, scientific, and project delivery services for the government and private sectors in the United States, Europe, Canada, India, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, and Africa. It operates through Critical Mission Solutions, People & Places Solutions, Divergent Solutions, and PA Consulting segments. The company offers cyber, data analytics, systems and software application integration and consulting, enterprise level and mission IT, design, nuclear, and enterprise level operations and maintenance services; software development, testing, mission integration, program management, research, development, test, evaluation services, training, and environmental remediation services; and other technical consulting solutions, as well as construction and construction management services. It also provides consulting services for consumer and manufacturing, defense and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government, health and life sciences, and transport industries. The company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Meritage Homes NYSE:MTH

$66.22 +0.45 (+0.68%)

Closing price 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$66.24 +0.02 (+0.04%)

As of 04:04 PM Eastern

Meritage Homes Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs and builds single-family attached and detached homes in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Homebuilding and Financial Services. It acquires and develops land; and constructs, markets, and sells homes for entry-level and first move-up buyers in Arizona, California, Colorado, Utah, Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The company also offers title and escrow, mortgage, insurance, and closing/settlement services to its homebuyers. Meritage Homes Corporation was founded in 1985 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

PulteGroup NYSE:PHM

$104.42 +0.86 (+0.83%)

Closing price 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$104.58 +0.16 (+0.16%)

As of 05:58 PM Eastern

PulteGroup, Inc., through its subsidiaries, primarily engages in the homebuilding business in the United States. It acquires and develops land primarily for residential purposes; and constructs housing on such land. The company also offers various home designs, including single-family detached, townhomes, condominiums, and duplexes under the Centex, Pulte Homes, Del Webb, DiVosta Homes, John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods, and American West brand names. In addition, the company arranges financing through the origination of mortgage loans primarily for homebuyers; sells the servicing rights for the originated loans; and provides title insurance policies, and examination and closing services to homebuyers. PulteGroup, Inc. was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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