GRBK vs. LGIH, HIW, AVAL, AMK, CDP, NHI, WSFS, LXP, VCTR, and OUT
Should you be buying Green Brick Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Green Brick Partners include LGI Homes (LGIH), Highwoods Properties (HIW), Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (AVAL), AssetMark Financial (AMK), COPT Defense Properties (CDP), National Health Investors (NHI), WSFS Financial (WSFS), LXP Industrial Trust (LXP), Victory Capital (VCTR), and OUTFRONT Media (OUT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
LGI Homes (NASDAQ:LGIH) and Green Brick Partners (NASDAQ:GRBK) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
LGI Homes currently has a consensus target price of $114.00, suggesting a potential downside of 2.96%. Green Brick Partners has a consensus target price of $52.00, suggesting a potential downside of 15.10%. Given Green Brick Partners' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe LGI Homes is more favorable than Green Brick Partners.
LGI Homes has a beta of 1.83, meaning that its stock price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Green Brick Partners has a beta of 1.71, meaning that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Green Brick Partners has a net margin of 16.01% compared to Green Brick Partners' net margin of 8.45%. LGI Homes' return on equity of 24.19% beat Green Brick Partners' return on equity.
Green Brick Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than LGI Homes. Green Brick Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LGI Homes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
84.9% of LGI Homes shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.2% of Green Brick Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 12.4% of LGI Homes shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 44.4% of Green Brick Partners shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
LGI Homes received 197 more outperform votes than Green Brick Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.89% of users gave LGI Homes an outperform vote while only 58.46% of users gave Green Brick Partners an outperform vote.
In the previous week, LGI Homes and LGI Homes both had 6 articles in the media. Green Brick Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat LGI Homes' score of 0.84 indicating that LGI Homes is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
LGI Homes beats Green Brick Partners on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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