TOL vs. MTH, KBH, MDC, TPH, MHO, PHM, NVR, TMHC, CCS, and WMS
Should you be buying Toll Brothers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Toll Brothers include Meritage Homes (MTH), KB Home (KBH), M.D.C. (MDC), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), M/I Homes (MHO), PulteGroup (PHM), NVR (NVR), Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), Century Communities (CCS), and Advanced Drainage Systems (WMS). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Toll Brothers vs.
Meritage Homes (NYSE:MTH) and Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.
Meritage Homes has a net margin of 15.79% compared to Toll Brothers' net margin of 12.92%. Meritage Homes' return on equity of 27.92% beat Toll Brothers' return on equity.
In the previous week, Toll Brothers had 8 more articles in the media than Meritage Homes. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Toll Brothers and 3 mentions for Meritage Homes. Toll Brothers' average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Meritage Homes' score of 0.55 indicating that Toll Brothers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Meritage Homes currently has a consensus price target of $110.86, suggesting a potential downside of 2.29%. Toll Brothers has a consensus price target of $60.33, suggesting a potential upside of 3.47%. Given Toll Brothers' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Toll Brothers is more favorable than Meritage Homes.
Toll Brothers has higher revenue and earnings than Meritage Homes. Meritage Homes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Toll Brothers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Meritage Homes pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Toll Brothers pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Meritage Homes pays out 4.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Toll Brothers pays out 6.9% 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. Toll Brothers has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Toll Brothers is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Toll Brothers received 177 more outperform votes than Meritage Homes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.70% of users gave Toll Brothers an outperform vote while only 56.31% of users gave Meritage Homes an outperform vote.
95.6% of Meritage Homes shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.7% of Toll Brothers shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Meritage Homes shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Toll Brothers shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Meritage Homes has a beta of 1.56, indicating that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Toll Brothers has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Toll Brothers beats Meritage Homes on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding TOL 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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