HOV vs. MHO, CVCO, BZH, DHI, LEN, PHM, NVR, TOL, MTH, and KBH
Should you be buying Hovnanian Enterprises stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hovnanian Enterprises include M/I Homes (MHO), Cavco Industries (CVCO), Beazer Homes USA (BZH), D.R. Horton (DHI), Lennar (LEN), PulteGroup (PHM), NVR (NVR), Toll Brothers (TOL), Meritage Homes (MTH), and KB Home (KBH). These companies are all part of the "homebuilding" industry.
M/I Homes (NYSE:MHO) and Hovnanian Enterprises (NYSE:HOV) are both construction companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking and institutional ownership.
M/I Homes has a beta of 2.16, meaning that its share price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hovnanian Enterprises has a beta of 2.62, meaning that its share price is 162% more volatile than the S&P 500.
95.1% of M/I Homes shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.4% of Hovnanian Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of M/I Homes shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.7% of Hovnanian Enterprises shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, M/I Homes had 1 more articles in the media than Hovnanian Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for M/I Homes and 1 mentions for Hovnanian Enterprises. Hovnanian Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat M/I Homes' score of 0.77 indicating that M/I Homes is being referred to more favorably in the media.
M/I Homes currently has a consensus price target of $130.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.07%. Hovnanian Enterprises has a consensus price target of $155.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.80%. Given M/I Homes' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hovnanian Enterprises is more favorable than M/I Homes.
M/I Homes has a net margin of 12.27% compared to M/I Homes' net margin of 8.02%. M/I Homes' return on equity of 57.78% beat Hovnanian Enterprises' return on equity.
M/I Homes has higher revenue and earnings than Hovnanian Enterprises. Hovnanian Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than M/I Homes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hovnanian Enterprises received 36 more outperform votes than M/I Homes when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.42% of users gave M/I Homes an outperform vote while only 54.45% of users gave Hovnanian Enterprises an outperform vote.
Summary
M/I Homes beats Hovnanian Enterprises on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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