HOV vs. BZH, MHO, TPH, CCS, LOMA, TPC, BXC, AGX, CINT, and NOA
Should you be buying Hovnanian Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hovnanian Enterprises include Beazer Homes USA (BZH), M/I Homes (MHO), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), Century Communities (CCS), Loma Negra Compañía Industrial Argentina Sociedad Anónima (LOMA), Tutor Perini (TPC), BlueLinx (BXC), Argan (AGX), CI&T (CINT), and North American Construction Group (NOA). 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 superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
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.
In the previous week, Hovnanian Enterprises had 3 more articles in the media than Beazer Homes USA. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Hovnanian Enterprises and 3 mentions for Beazer Homes USA. Hovnanian Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Beazer Homes USA's score of 0.15 indicating that Hovnanian Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Hovnanian Enterprises has a beta of 2.61, indicating that its share price is 161% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beazer Homes USA has a beta of 2.24, indicating that its share price is 124% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Beazer Homes USA has a consensus price target of $35.67, suggesting a potential upside of 36.97%. Given Beazer Homes USA's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Beazer Homes USA is more favorable than Hovnanian Enterprises.
Hovnanian Enterprises has a net margin of 7.45% compared to Beazer Homes USA's net margin of 7.26%. Hovnanian Enterprises' return on equity of 58.22% beat Beazer Homes USA's return on equity.
Summary
Hovnanian Enterprises beats Beazer Homes USA on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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