Landsea Homes (LSEA) Competitors

Landsea Homes (NASDAQ:LSEA) and Smith Douglas Homes (NYSE:SDHC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.

Do insiders and institutionals believe in LSEA or SDHC?

83.0% of Landsea Homes shares are owned by institutional investors. 51.0% of Landsea Homes shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 82.7% of Smith Douglas Homes shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts prefer LSEA or SDHC?

Landsea Homes presently has a consensus price target of $13.83, indicating a potential upside of 23.22%. Smith Douglas Homes has a consensus price target of $18.90, indicating a potential upside of 13.60%. Given Landsea Homes' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Landsea Homes is more favorable than Smith Douglas Homes.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Landsea Homes	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.25
Smith Douglas Homes	1 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.80

Which has more volatility and risk, LSEA or SDHC?

Landsea Homes has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Smith Douglas Homes has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer LSEA or SDHC?

In the previous week, Smith Douglas Homes had 13 more articles in the media than Landsea Homes. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Smith Douglas Homes and 4 mentions for Landsea Homes. Landsea Homes' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Smith Douglas Homes' score of 0.33 indicating that Landsea Homes is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Landsea Homes	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Smith Douglas Homes	4 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	3 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in LSEA or SDHC?

Landsea Homes received 21 more outperform votes than Smith Douglas Homes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 36.07% of users gave Landsea Homes an outperform vote while only 3.70% of users gave Smith Douglas Homes an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Landsea Homes	Outperform Votes 22 36.07%	Underperform Votes 39 63.93%
Smith Douglas Homes	Outperform Votes 1 3.70%	Underperform Votes 26 96.30%

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, LSEA or SDHC?

Smith Douglas Homes has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Landsea Homes. Smith Douglas Homes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Landsea Homes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Landsea Homes	$1.57B	0.26	$29.24M	$0.26	43.15
Smith Douglas Homes	$1.01B	0.85	$123.18M	$1.73	9.62

Is LSEA or SDHC more profitable?

Smith Douglas Homes has a net margin of 4.60% compared to Landsea Homes' net margin of 1.82%. Smith Douglas Homes' return on equity of 21.01% beat Landsea Homes' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Landsea Homes	1.82%	6.96%	2.92%
Smith Douglas Homes	4.60%	21.01%	16.10%

Summary

Landsea Homes beats Smith Douglas Homes on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.