BZH vs. HOV, MHO, CCS, DFH, AGX, LOMA, TPC, BXC, NOA, and CINT
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), Century Communities (CCS), Dream Finders Homes (DFH), Argan (AGX), Loma Negra Compañía Industrial Argentina Sociedad Anónima (LOMA), Tutor Perini (TPC), BlueLinx (BXC), North American Construction Group (NOA), and CI&T (CINT). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Hovnanian Enterprises (NYSE:HOV) and Beazer Homes USA (NYSE:BZH) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and profitability.
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 consensus target price of $35.67, suggesting a potential upside of 27.34%. Given Hovnanian Enterprises' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Beazer Homes USA is more favorable than Hovnanian Enterprises.
Hovnanian Enterprises has a net margin of 7.45% compared to Hovnanian Enterprises' net margin of 7.26%. Beazer Homes USA's return on equity of 58.22% beat Hovnanian Enterprises' return on equity.
Beazer Homes USA received 99 more outperform votes than Hovnanian Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.58% of users gave Beazer Homes USA an outperform vote while only 54.56% of users gave Hovnanian Enterprises an outperform vote.
Hovnanian Enterprises has a beta of 2.61, suggesting that its stock price is 161% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beazer Homes USA has a beta of 2.24, suggesting that its stock price is 124% more volatile than the S&P 500.
65.4% of Hovnanian Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.7% of Beazer Homes USA shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.7% of Hovnanian Enterprises shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Beazer Homes USA shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Beazer Homes USA had 3 more articles in the media than Hovnanian Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Beazer Homes USA and 1 mentions for Hovnanian Enterprises. Hovnanian Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Beazer Homes USA's score of -1.00 indicating that Beazer Homes USA is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Beazer Homes USA beats Hovnanian Enterprises on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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