NVR vs. DHI, LEN, PHM, TOL, MTH, KBH, MHO, TPH, CVCO, and HOV
Should you be buying NVR stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NVR include D.R. Horton (DHI), Lennar (LEN), PulteGroup (PHM), Toll Brothers (TOL), Meritage Homes (MTH), KB Home (KBH), M/I Homes (MHO), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), Cavco Industries (CVCO), and Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV). These companies are all part of the "homebuilding" industry.
D.R. Horton (NYSE:DHI) and NVR (NYSE:NVR) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends and media sentiment.
D.R. Horton received 387 more outperform votes than NVR when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.15% of users gave D.R. Horton an outperform vote while only 52.09% of users gave NVR an outperform vote.
90.6% of D.R. Horton shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of NVR shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of D.R. Horton shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of NVR shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
NVR has a net margin of 16.83% compared to NVR's net margin of 13.36%. D.R. Horton's return on equity of 38.51% beat NVR's return on equity.
D.R. Horton presently has a consensus target price of $175.60, suggesting a potential downside of 0.79%. NVR has a consensus target price of $7,237.50, suggesting a potential downside of 15.85%. Given NVR's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe D.R. Horton is more favorable than NVR.
D.R. Horton has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NVR has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, D.R. Horton had 14 more articles in the media than NVR. MarketBeat recorded 35 mentions for D.R. Horton and 21 mentions for NVR. NVR's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat D.R. Horton's score of 0.22 indicating that D.R. Horton is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Summary
D.R. Horton beats NVR on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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