DHI vs. NVR, PHM, LEN, URI, OTIS, MLM, VMC, HWM, WY, and ROL
Should you be buying D.R. Horton stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of D.R. Horton include NVR (NVR), PulteGroup (PHM), Lennar (LEN), United Rentals (URI), Otis Worldwide (OTIS), Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), Vulcan Materials (VMC), Howmet Aerospace (HWM), Weyerhaeuser (WY), and Rollins (ROL). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
NVR (NYSE:NVR) and D.R. Horton (NYSE:DHI) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
84.5% of NVR shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.1% of D.R. Horton shares are held by institutional investors. 8.6% of NVR shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of D.R. Horton shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
NVR presently has a consensus price target of $6,750.00, indicating a potential downside of 11.54%. D.R. Horton has a consensus price target of $148.65, indicating a potential downside of 1.90%. Given NVR's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe D.R. Horton is more favorable than NVR.
D.R. Horton has higher revenue and earnings than NVR. D.R. Horton is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NVR, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NVR has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its share price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, D.R. Horton has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its share price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
D.R. Horton received 372 more outperform votes than NVR when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.00% of users gave D.R. Horton an outperform vote while only 52.10% of users gave NVR an outperform vote.
NVR has a net margin of 17.09% compared to NVR's net margin of 13.18%. D.R. Horton's return on equity of 38.50% beat NVR's return on equity.
In the previous week, NVR had 1 more articles in the media than D.R. Horton. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for NVR and 20 mentions for D.R. Horton. NVR's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat D.R. Horton's score of 0.57 indicating that D.R. Horton is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
NVR and D.R. Horton tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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