MTH vs. KBH, TPH, MDC, MHO, TOL, PHM, TMHC, CCS, DFH, and LPX
Should you be buying Meritage Homes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Meritage Homes include KB Home (KBH), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), M.D.C. (MDC), M/I Homes (MHO), Toll Brothers (TOL), PulteGroup (PHM), Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), Century Communities (CCS), Dream Finders Homes (DFH), and Louisiana-Pacific (LPX). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Meritage Homes vs.
KB Home (NYSE:KBH) and Meritage Homes (NYSE:MTH) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
Meritage Homes has lower revenue, but higher earnings than KB Home. Meritage Homes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than KB Home, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
KB Home pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Meritage Homes pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. KB Home pays out 6.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Meritage Homes pays out 4.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Meritage Homes has a net margin of 14.44% compared to KB Home's net margin of 11.73%. Meritage Homes' return on equity of 23.99% beat KB Home's return on equity.
KB Home has a beta of 1.61, suggesting that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Meritage Homes has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
KB Home presently has a consensus price target of $42.27, indicating a potential downside of 12.27%. Meritage Homes has a consensus price target of $115.14, indicating a potential downside of 10.30%. Given Meritage Homes' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Meritage Homes is more favorable than KB Home.
In the previous week, Meritage Homes had 1 more articles in the media than KB Home. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Meritage Homes and 9 mentions for KB Home. Meritage Homes' average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat KB Home's score of 0.46 indicating that Meritage Homes is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
KB Home received 109 more outperform votes than Meritage Homes when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.24% of users gave Meritage Homes an outperform vote while only 48.09% of users gave KB Home an outperform vote.
89.3% of KB Home shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.6% of Meritage Homes shares are held by institutional investors. 4.4% of KB Home shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Meritage Homes shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Meritage Homes beats KB Home on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding MTH and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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