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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
J Jacobs Solutions	$128.45 -1.0%	$123.92	$106.23 ▼ $156.31	$15.59B	0.77	805,321 shs	511,675 shs
LRE (LRE)	$1.78 -13.6%	$0.00	$1.10 ▼ $13.76	$18.28M	1.38	50,508 shs	25,759 shs
MDC M.D.C.	$62.98	$62.92	$36.47 ▼ $63.00	$4.73B	1.54	1.97 million shs	N/A
MTH Meritage Homes	$62.52 -3.2%	$66.09	$59.27 ▼ $106.99	$4.63B	1.37	879,004 shs	975,465 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
J Jacobs Solutions	-0.88%	+0.86%	-0.51%	+3.31%	-8.73%
LRE (LRE)	+4.71%	0.00%	+51.49%	+45.90%	-73.11%
MDC M.D.C.	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
MTH Meritage Homes	-3.12%	-7.72%	-9.30%	-12.24%	-24.83%

Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
J Jacobs Solutions	3.7455 of 5 stars	2.3	5.0	1.7	0.0	2.6	3.3	1.9
LRE (LRE)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MDC M.D.C.	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MTH Meritage Homes	4.5574 of 5 stars	3.3	3.0	2.5	0.0	3.5	3.3	3.1

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
J Jacobs Solutions	2.63	Moderate Buy	$150.86	17.44% Upside
LRE (LRE)	0.00	N/A	N/A	N/A
MDC M.D.C.	0.00	N/A	N/A	N/A
MTH Meritage Homes	2.50	Moderate Buy	$97.72	56.31% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest J, MTH, MDC, and LRE Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
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
5/7/2025	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
4/8/2025	J Jacobs Solutions	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Hold ➝ Hold	$141.00 ➝ $130.00

(Data available from 6/18/2022 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
J Jacobs Solutions	$11.69B	1.32	$8.00 per share	16.06	$36.76 per share	3.49
LRE (LRE)	$126.97M	0.19	$0.48 per share	3.74	$2.08 per share	0.86
MDC M.D.C.	$4.64B	1.02	$5.31 per share	11.85	$45.24 per share	1.39
MTH Meritage Homes	$6.40B	0.70	$10.89 per share	5.74	$71.06 per share	0.88

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
J Jacobs Solutions	$821.09M	$3.63	35.39	18.72	1.82	3.53%	15.67%	6.11%	8/5/2025 (Estimated)
LRE (LRE)	$4.20M	N/A	0.00	∞	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MDC M.D.C.	$401.01M	$5.28	11.93	∞	N/A	8.64%	12.32%	7.34%	N/A
MTH Meritage Homes	$786.19M	$12.23	5.11	5.81	N/A	11.50%	14.28%	10.01%	7/23/2025 (Estimated)

Latest J, MTH, MDC, and LRE Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue	Details
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

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
J Jacobs Solutions	$1.28	1.00%	N/A	35.26%	4 Years
LRE (LRE)	$0.03	1.69%	N/A	N/A	N/A
MDC M.D.C.	$2.20	3.49%	N/A	41.67%	1 Years
MTH Meritage Homes	$1.72	2.75%	N/A	14.06%	2 Years

Latest J, MTH, MDC, and LRE Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
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
J Jacobs Solutions	0.41	1.25	1.25
LRE (LRE)	1.09	0.17	0.17
MDC M.D.C.	0.50	9.76	3.92
MTH Meritage Homes	0.26	1.61	1.75

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
J Jacobs Solutions	85.65%
LRE (LRE)	N/A
MDC M.D.C.	88.08%
MTH Meritage Homes	98.44%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
J Jacobs Solutions	0.38%
LRE (LRE)	N/A
MDC M.D.C.	23.30%
MTH Meritage Homes	2.20%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
J Jacobs Solutions	45,000	120.16 million	119.70 million	Optionable
LRE (LRE)	N/A	13.64 million	N/A	Not Optionable
MDC M.D.C.	1,760	75.05 million	57.56 million	Optionable
MTH Meritage Homes	1,898	71.83 million	70.25 million	Optionable

J, MTH, MDC, and LRE Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Assenagon Asset Management S.A. Grows Holdings in Meritage Homes Co. (NYSE:MTH)

June 17 at 3:35 AM | marketbeat.com

SG Americas Securities LLC Buys New Shares in Meritage Homes Co. (NYSE:MTH)

June 17 at 3:27 AM | marketbeat.com

Meritage Homes Second Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast Scheduled for July 24, 2025

June 16 at 9:00 AM | globenewswire.com

Yousif Capital Management LLC Increases Stock Position in Meritage Homes Co. (NYSE:MTH)

June 16 at 3:39 AM | marketbeat.com

Meritage Homes Co. (NYSE:MTH) Receives $97.72 Average Target Price from Analysts

June 16 at 2:53 AM | americanbankingnews.com

Fifth Third Bancorp Purchases 27,338 Shares of Meritage Homes Co. (NYSE:MTH)

June 15 at 4:35 AM | marketbeat.com

Handelsbanken Fonder AB Grows Position in Meritage Homes Co. (NYSE:MTH)

June 15 at 4:08 AM | marketbeat.com

Hennessy Advisors Inc. Boosts Stock Holdings in Meritage Homes Co. (NYSE:MTH)

June 14, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Should You Investigate Meritage Homes Corporation (NYSE:MTH) At US$65.95?

June 13, 2025 | finance.yahoo.com

Insider Buying: Meritage Homes Co. (NYSE:MTH) Director Acquires 4,000 Shares of Stock

June 13, 2025 | insidertrades.com

Meritage Homes Co. (NYSE:MTH) Receives Consensus Recommendation of "Moderate Buy" from Analysts

June 13, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Insider Buying: Joseph Keough Acquires Shares of Meritage Homes Corp (MTH)

June 12, 2025 | gurufocus.com

Joseph Keough Purchases 4,000 Shares of Meritage Homes Co. (NYSE:MTH) Stock

June 12, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Kalkine : NYSE Composite Trends Featuring Meritage Homes

June 10, 2025 | kalkinemedia.com

Meritage Homes Is Building Value For All Seasons

June 10, 2025 | seekingalpha.com

Wedge Capital Management L L P NC Sells 247,878 Shares of Meritage Homes Co. (NYSE:MTH)

June 10, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Congress Asset Management Co. Has $1.86 Million Stock Holdings in Meritage Homes Co. (NYSE:MTH)

June 9, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Vest Financial LLC Increases Stake in Meritage Homes Co. (NYSE:MTH)

June 8, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Rhumbline Advisers Raises Stake in Meritage Homes Co. (NYSE:MTH)

June 8, 2025 | marketbeat.com

Radnor Capital Management LLC Has $1.14 Million Position in Meritage Homes Co. (NYSE:MTH)

June 7, 2025 | marketbeat.com

GAMMA Investing LLC Has $14.47 Million Holdings in Meritage Homes Co. (NYSE:MTH)

June 7, 2025 | marketbeat.com

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J, MTH, MDC, and LRE Company Descriptions

Jacobs Solutions NYSE:J

$128.45 -1.27 (-0.98%)

Closing price 06/17/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$128.04 -0.41 (-0.32%)

As of 06/17/2025 07:46 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.

(LRE) NYSE:LRE

LRR Energy, L.P. (LRR Energy) operates, acquires, exploits and develops producing oil and natural gas properties in North America. The Company's properties consist of onshore oil and natural gas properties. Its oil and natural gas properties include the Permian Basin region in West Texas and Southeast New Mexico, the Mid-Continent region in Oklahoma and East Texas, and the Gulf Coast region in Texas. As of December 31, 2014, the Company's total estimated proved reserves were approximately 33.8 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMBoe), of which approximately 88% were proved developed reserves (approximately 73% proved developed producing and approximately 15% proved developed non-producing). The Company's general partner is LRE GP, LLC.

M.D.C. NYSE:MDC

M.D.C. Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the homebuilding and financial service businesses. Its homebuilding operations include purchasing finished lots or developing lots for the construction and sale primarily of single-family detached homes to first-time and first-time move-up homebuyers under the Richmond American Homes name. The company conducts its homebuilding operations in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Washington, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Alabama, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. Its financial services operations comprise originating mortgage loans primarily for homebuyers; providing insurance coverage primarily to its homebuilding subsidiaries and subcontractors for homes sold by its homebuilding subsidiaries, and for work performed in completed subdivisions; acting as a re-insurer on the claims; selling third-party personal property and casualty insurance products to homebuyers; and offering title agency services to homebuilding subsidiaries and customers in Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. As of April 19, 2024, M.D.C. Holdings, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of SH Residential Holdings, LLC.

Meritage Homes NYSE:MTH

$62.52 -2.06 (-3.19%)

Closing price 06/17/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$62.54 +0.02 (+0.04%)

As of 06/17/2025 06:45 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.

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