BZH vs. HOV, MHO, LSEA, DFH, CCS, CINT, VSEC, EVA, NX, and LOMA
Should you be buying Beazer Homes USA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Beazer Homes USA include Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), M/I Homes (MHO), Landsea Homes (LSEA), Dream Finders Homes (DFH), Century Communities (CCS), CI&T (CINT), VSE (VSEC), Enviva (EVA), Quanex Building Products (NX), and Loma Negra Compañía Industrial Argentina Sociedad Anónima (LOMA). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Beazer Homes USA vs.
Beazer Homes USA (NYSE:BZH) and Hovnanian Enterprises (NYSE:HOV) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Beazer Homes USA currently has a consensus target price of $21.00, suggesting a potential downside of 2.69%. Given Beazer Homes USA's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Beazer Homes USA is more favorable than Hovnanian Enterprises.
Beazer Homes USA received 97 more outperform votes than Hovnanian Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.37% of users gave Beazer Homes USA an outperform vote while only 55.06% of users gave Hovnanian Enterprises an outperform vote.
79.0% of Beazer Homes USA shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.6% of Hovnanian Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.0% of Beazer Homes USA shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.3% of Hovnanian Enterprises shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, Hovnanian Enterprises had 8 more articles in the media than Beazer Homes USA. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Hovnanian Enterprises and 4 mentions for Beazer Homes USA. Beazer Homes USA's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Hovnanian Enterprises' score of 0.34 indicating that Beazer Homes USA is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Beazer Homes USA has a net margin of 8.54% compared to Hovnanian Enterprises' net margin of 6.65%. Hovnanian Enterprises' return on equity of 84.63% beat Beazer Homes USA's return on equity.
Hovnanian Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than Beazer Homes USA. Hovnanian Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Beazer Homes USA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Beazer Homes USA has a beta of 2.17, suggesting that its stock price is 117% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hovnanian Enterprises has a beta of 2.47, suggesting that its stock price is 147% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Beazer Homes USA beats Hovnanian Enterprises on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BZH and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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