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$28.22 -0.35 (-1.21%)
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BZH vs. HOV, DHI, LEN, NVR, PHM, TOL, MTH, KBH, CVCO, and MHO

Should you be buying Beazer Homes USA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Beazer Homes USA include Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), D.R. Horton (DHI), Lennar (LEN), NVR (NVR), PulteGroup (PHM), Toll Brothers (TOL), Meritage Homes (MTH), KB Home (KBH), Cavco Industries (CVCO), and M/I Homes (MHO). These companies are all part of the "homebuilding" industry.

Beazer Homes USA vs.

Hovnanian Enterprises (NYSE:HOV) and Beazer Homes USA (NYSE:BZH) are both small-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, risk, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.

Hovnanian Enterprises has a beta of 2.7, indicating that its stock price is 170% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beazer Homes USA has a beta of 2.24, indicating that its stock price is 124% more volatile than the S&P 500.

65.4% of Hovnanian Enterprises shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.7% of Beazer Homes USA shares are held by institutional investors. 17.7% of Hovnanian Enterprises shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Beazer Homes USA shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Hovnanian Enterprises currently has a consensus target price of $155.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.35%. Beazer Homes USA has a consensus target price of $39.67, suggesting a potential upside of 40.54%. Given Beazer Homes USA's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Beazer Homes USA is more favorable than Hovnanian Enterprises.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Hovnanian Enterprises
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Beazer Homes USA
1 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

Hovnanian Enterprises has a net margin of 8.05% compared to Beazer Homes USA's net margin of 6.02%. Hovnanian Enterprises' return on equity of 43.47% beat Beazer Homes USA's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Hovnanian Enterprises8.05% 43.47% 9.83%
Beazer Homes USA 6.02%11.95%5.56%

Beazer Homes USA received 100 more outperform votes than Hovnanian Enterprises when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.00% of users gave Beazer Homes USA an outperform vote while only 54.18% of users gave Hovnanian Enterprises an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Hovnanian EnterprisesOutperform Votes
266
54.18%
Underperform Votes
225
45.82%
Beazer Homes USAOutperform Votes
366
58.00%
Underperform Votes
265
42.00%

Hovnanian Enterprises has higher revenue and earnings than Beazer Homes USA. Hovnanian Enterprises is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Beazer Homes USA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Hovnanian Enterprises$3.00B0.28$242.01M$32.114.34
Beazer Homes USA$2.33B0.38$140.18M$4.536.23

In the previous week, Hovnanian Enterprises had 6 more articles in the media than Beazer Homes USA. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Hovnanian Enterprises and 2 mentions for Beazer Homes USA. Hovnanian Enterprises' average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Beazer Homes USA's score of -1.05 indicating that Hovnanian Enterprises is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Hovnanian Enterprises
6 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Beazer Homes USA
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Negative

Summary

Hovnanian Enterprises beats Beazer Homes USA on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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BZH vs. The Competition

MetricBeazer Homes USAOperative builders IndustryConstruction SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$799.73M$7.37B$8.92B$19.27B
Dividend YieldN/A1.31%2.03%3.72%
P/E Ratio6.237.8427.4741.41
Price / Sales0.381.023.7717.05
Price / Cash5.148.3021.6619.84
Price / Book0.711.756.875.76
Net Income$140.18M$803.39M$518.49M$993.25M
7 Day Performance10.04%9.59%5.50%3.26%
1 Month Performance-0.55%0.75%4.21%5.22%
1 Year Performance-13.61%-1.95%53.02%19.42%

Beazer Homes USA Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BZH
Beazer Homes USA
4.657 of 5 stars
$28.22
-1.2%
$39.67
+40.5%
-9.4%$799.73M$2.33B6.231,158Short Interest ↑
Negative News
HOV
Hovnanian Enterprises
2.3738 of 5 stars
$120.37
+2.3%
$155.00
+28.8%
-7.6%$728.84M$3.00B3.751,870Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
DHI
D.R. Horton
4.9481 of 5 stars
$138.21
+1.2%
$176.93
+28.0%
-2.7%$44.39B$36.80B9.6214,766Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
LEN
Lennar
4.8672 of 5 stars
$131.47
+1.5%
$171.50
+30.4%
-5.4%$35.66B$35.44B8.7112,000Dividend Announcement
NVR
NVR
4.0849 of 5 stars
$7,957.94
+1.4%
$9,531.67
+19.8%
+18.0%$24.38B$10.13B16.276,300Positive News
PHM
PulteGroup
4.7328 of 5 stars
$108.94
+1.2%
$146.85
+34.8%
+12.9%$22.34B$17.32B8.036,520Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
TOL
Toll Brothers
4.8831 of 5 stars
$125.94
+1.9%
$158.07
+25.5%
+36.9%$12.60B$10.85B8.385,200Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
MTH
Meritage Homes
4.2433 of 5 stars
$75.52
+2.2%
$109.56
+45.1%
-4.4%$5.46B$6.43B3.421,920Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
Gap Up
KBH
KB Home
4.7661 of 5 stars
$64.07
+1.4%
$79.25
+23.7%
+13.3%$4.70B$6.60B8.212,205Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
CVCO
Cavco Industries
2.8059 of 5 stars
$440.73
+2.2%
$487.50
+10.6%
+55.6%$3.57B$1.85B24.916,300Insider Trade
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
MHO
M/I Homes
4.3291 of 5 stars
$126.47
+1.9%
$197.50
+56.2%
+6.8%$3.51B$4.27B6.781,660News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up

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