TMHC vs. MTH, MDC, KBH, TPH, DFH, MHO, CCS, TOL, PHM, and BCC
Should you be buying Taylor Morrison Home stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Taylor Morrison Home include Meritage Homes (MTH), M.D.C. (MDC), KB Home (KBH), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), Dream Finders Homes (DFH), M/I Homes (MHO), Century Communities (CCS), Toll Brothers (TOL), PulteGroup (PHM), and Boise Cascade (BCC). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Taylor Morrison Home (NYSE:TMHC) and Meritage Homes (NYSE:MTH) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings and risk.
95.2% of Taylor Morrison Home shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.4% of Meritage Homes shares are held by institutional investors. 5.5% of Taylor Morrison Home shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Meritage Homes shares are held by 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.
Meritage Homes has a net margin of 12.54% compared to Taylor Morrison Home's net margin of 10.37%. Meritage Homes' return on equity of 17.92% beat Taylor Morrison Home's return on equity.
Taylor Morrison Home received 31 more outperform votes than Meritage Homes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.79% of users gave Taylor Morrison Home an outperform vote while only 55.48% of users gave Meritage Homes an outperform vote.
Taylor Morrison Home has a beta of 1.87, meaning that its stock price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Meritage Homes has a beta of 1.77, meaning that its stock price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Taylor Morrison Home presently has a consensus target price of $57.20, suggesting a potential downside of 0.97%. Meritage Homes has a consensus target price of $172.67, suggesting a potential upside of 2.01%. Given Meritage Homes' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Meritage Homes is more favorable than Taylor Morrison Home.
Taylor Morrison Home has higher revenue and earnings than Meritage Homes. Meritage Homes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Taylor Morrison Home, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Meritage Homes had 18 more articles in the media than Taylor Morrison Home. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Meritage Homes and 5 mentions for Taylor Morrison Home. Taylor Morrison Home's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Meritage Homes' score of 0.77 indicating that Taylor Morrison Home is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Taylor Morrison Home and Meritage Homes tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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