TOL vs. LEN, NVR, PHM, MTH, KBH, TPH, MHO, CVCO, HOV, and BZH
Should you be buying Toll Brothers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Toll Brothers include Lennar (LEN), NVR (NVR), PulteGroup (PHM), Meritage Homes (MTH), KB Home (KBH), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), M/I Homes (MHO), Cavco Industries (CVCO), Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), and Beazer Homes USA (BZH). These companies are all part of the "homebuilding" industry.
Lennar (NYSE:LEN) and Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
Lennar pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Toll Brothers pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Lennar pays out 13.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Toll Brothers pays out 6.3% 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.
Lennar has higher revenue and earnings than Toll Brothers. Toll Brothers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lennar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lennar has a beta of 1.6, indicating that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Toll Brothers has a beta of 1.67, indicating that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Lennar presently has a consensus target price of $167.88, indicating a potential downside of 5.00%. Toll Brothers has a consensus target price of $131.25, indicating a potential downside of 5.85%. Given Toll Brothers' higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Lennar is more favorable than Toll Brothers.
Toll Brothers has a net margin of 15.07% compared to Toll Brothers' net margin of 11.58%. Lennar's return on equity of 20.91% beat Toll Brothers' return on equity.
81.1% of Lennar shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of Toll Brothers shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.4% of Lennar shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Toll Brothers shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Lennar had 7 more articles in the media than Toll Brothers. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Lennar and 19 mentions for Toll Brothers. Lennar's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Toll Brothers' score of 0.34 indicating that Toll Brothers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lennar received 243 more outperform votes than Toll Brothers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.99% of users gave Lennar an outperform vote while only 57.17% of users gave Toll Brothers an outperform vote.
Summary
Toll Brothers beats Lennar on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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