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Meritage Homes (MTH) Competitors

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MTH vs. BZH, KBH, LEN, MHO, NVR, PHM, TMHC, TOL, TPH, and CVCO

Should you be buying Meritage Homes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Meritage Homes include Beazer Homes USA (BZH), KB Home (KBH), Lennar (LEN), M/I Homes (MHO), NVR (NVR), PulteGroup (PHM), Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), Toll Brothers (TOL), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), and Cavco Industries (CVCO). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.

Meritage Homes vs. Its Competitors

Beazer Homes USA (NYSE:BZH) and Meritage Homes (NYSE:MTH) are both construction companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.

Meritage Homes has a net margin of 10.27% compared to Beazer Homes USA's net margin of 2.84%. Meritage Homes' return on equity of 12.37% beat Beazer Homes USA's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Beazer Homes USA2.84% 6.16% 2.86%
Meritage Homes 10.27%12.37%8.59%

Beazer Homes USA presently has a consensus target price of $31.33, suggesting a potential upside of 35.20%. Meritage Homes has a consensus target price of $85.57, suggesting a potential upside of 22.40%. Given Beazer Homes USA's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Beazer Homes USA is more favorable than Meritage Homes.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Beazer Homes USA
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.40
Meritage Homes
0 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.42

85.7% of Beazer Homes USA shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.4% of Meritage Homes shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.5% of Beazer Homes USA shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Meritage Homes shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Beazer Homes USA has a beta of 2.17, suggesting that its share price is 117% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Meritage Homes has a beta of 1.42, suggesting that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Meritage Homes had 1 more articles in the media than Beazer Homes USA. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Meritage Homes and 5 mentions for Beazer Homes USA. Meritage Homes' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Beazer Homes USA's score of 0.52 indicating that Meritage Homes is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Beazer Homes USA
2 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Meritage Homes
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Meritage Homes has higher revenue and earnings than Beazer Homes USA. Meritage Homes 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Beazer Homes USA$2.33B0.30$140.18M$2.2010.53
Meritage Homes$6.22B0.80$786.19M$11.126.29

Summary

Meritage Homes beats Beazer Homes USA on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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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MTH vs. The Competition

MetricMeritage HomesBLDG IndustryConstruction SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$4.98B$10.11B$9.57B$21.93B
Dividend Yield2.33%2.58%1.91%3.56%
P/E Ratio6.297.6217.1329.64
Price / Sales0.800.95100.09100.64
Price / Cash6.667.9015.7118.33
Price / Book0.981.464.784.61
Net Income$786.19M$1.21B$625.65M$1.01B
7 Day Performance-3.41%-1.49%-0.91%0.13%
1 Month Performance-15.70%-11.66%-1.39%2.27%
1 Year Performance-28.26%-17.07%107.92%13.84%

Meritage Homes Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MTH
Meritage Homes
4.6848 of 5 stars
$69.91
-3.2%
$85.57
+22.4%
-27.1%$4.98B$6.22B6.291,898Analyst Downgrade
BZH
Beazer Homes USA
4.8592 of 5 stars
$24.70
+0.9%
$31.33
+26.8%
-25.0%$727.98M$2.33B11.231,158
KBH
KB Home
4.3796 of 5 stars
$64.19
+1.4%
$65.55
+2.1%
-21.2%$4.31B$6.93B8.502,384Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
LEN
Lennar
4.0496 of 5 stars
$127.69
+1.3%
$123.75
-3.1%
-30.6%$32.65B$35.44B12.6213,265Analyst Forecast
MHO
M/I Homes
3.6367 of 5 stars
$145.37
-0.2%
$162.50
+11.8%
-13.6%$3.90B$4.50B7.981,760
NVR
NVR
3.6165 of 5 stars
$8,097.50
+0.8%
$8,783.33
+8.5%
-15.1%$23.05B$10.29B17.097,000
PHM
PulteGroup
4.5746 of 5 stars
$133.33
+1.7%
$136.46
+2.3%
-2.8%$25.88B$17.95B9.966,793Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
TMHC
Taylor Morrison Home
3.6351 of 5 stars
$66.44
+0.3%
$77.50
+16.7%
-2.0%$6.65B$8.17B7.673,000
TOL
Toll Brothers
4.6647 of 5 stars
$138.30
+0.8%
$149.79
+8.3%
-6.0%$13.23B$10.85B10.164,900Analyst Forecast
TPH
Tri Pointe Homes
4.0151 of 5 stars
$34.04
+0.9%
$40.25
+18.3%
-22.7%$3.06B$4.42B8.661,750Positive News
Analyst Forecast
CVCO
Cavco Industries
2.445 of 5 stars
$585.63
+2.3%
$522.50
-10.8%
+18.1%$4.53B$2.02B25.387,000

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