LSEA vs. HOV, BZH, UHG, SDHC, DHI, PHM, NVR, TOL, MTH, and TMHC
Should you be buying Landsea Homes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Landsea Homes include Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), Beazer Homes USA (BZH), United Homes Group (UHG), Smith Douglas Homes (SDHC), D.R. Horton (DHI), PulteGroup (PHM), NVR (NVR), Toll Brothers (TOL), Meritage Homes (MTH), and Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC). These companies are all part of the "operative builders" industry.
Hovnanian Enterprises (NYSE:HOV) and Landsea Homes (NASDAQ:LSEA) are both small-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Hovnanian Enterprises presently has a consensus price target of $155.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.80%. Landsea Homes has a consensus price target of $13.75, indicating a potential upside of 38.61%. Given Hovnanian Enterprises' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Landsea Homes is more favorable than Hovnanian Enterprises.
Hovnanian Enterprises has a beta of 2.62, indicating that its share price is 162% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Landsea Homes has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hovnanian Enterprises received 245 more outperform votes than Landsea Homes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.45% of users gave Hovnanian Enterprises an outperform vote while only 36.73% of users gave Landsea Homes an outperform vote.
Hovnanian Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than Landsea Homes. Hovnanian Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Landsea Homes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Hovnanian Enterprises has a net margin of 8.02% compared to Hovnanian Enterprises' net margin of 2.08%. Landsea Homes' return on equity of 57.78% beat Hovnanian Enterprises' return on equity.
65.4% of Hovnanian Enterprises shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.0% of Landsea Homes shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.7% of Hovnanian Enterprises shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 51.0% of Landsea Homes shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Landsea Homes had 3 more articles in the media than Hovnanian Enterprises. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Landsea Homes and 1 mentions for Hovnanian Enterprises. Hovnanian Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Landsea Homes' score of 0.31 indicating that Landsea Homes is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Hovnanian Enterprises beats Landsea Homes on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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