MTH vs. NVR, PHM, TOL, KBH, TPH, MHO, CVCO, HOV, BZH, and DHI
Should you be buying Meritage Homes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Meritage Homes include NVR (NVR), PulteGroup (PHM), Toll Brothers (TOL), KB Home (KBH), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), M/I Homes (MHO), Cavco Industries (CVCO), Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), Beazer Homes USA (BZH), and D.R. Horton (DHI). These companies are all part of the "homebuilding" industry.
NVR (NYSE:NVR) and Meritage Homes (NYSE:MTH) are both construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.
NVR currently has a consensus target price of $7,237.50, indicating a potential downside of 15.85%. Meritage Homes has a consensus target price of $196.83, indicating a potential downside of 1.67%. Given NVR's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Meritage Homes is more favorable than NVR.
Meritage Homes received 171 more outperform votes than NVR when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.23% of users gave Meritage Homes an outperform vote while only 52.09% of users gave NVR an outperform vote.
NVR has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Meritage Homes has a beta of 1.8, meaning that its stock price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Meritage Homes had 6 more articles in the media than NVR. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Meritage Homes and 23 mentions for NVR. NVR's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Meritage Homes' score of 0.22 indicating that Meritage Homes is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NVR has a net margin of 16.83% compared to NVR's net margin of 12.98%. Meritage Homes' return on equity of 38.51% beat NVR's return on equity.
83.7% of NVR shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.4% of Meritage Homes shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.0% of NVR shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Meritage Homes 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.
NVR has higher revenue and earnings than Meritage Homes. Meritage Homes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NVR, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
NVR and Meritage Homes tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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