BZH vs. MHO, CVCO, HOV, DHI, LEN, PHM, NVR, TOL, MTH, and KBH
Should you be buying Beazer Homes USA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Beazer Homes USA include M/I Homes (MHO), Cavco Industries (CVCO), Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), 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 Beazer Homes USA (NYSE:BZH) are both construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability and institutional ownership.
95.1% of M/I Homes shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.7% of Beazer Homes USA shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of M/I Homes shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Beazer Homes USA shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
M/I Homes has a beta of 2.16, indicating that its share price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beazer Homes USA has a beta of 2.25, indicating that its share price is 125% more volatile than the S&P 500.
M/I Homes has higher revenue and earnings than Beazer Homes USA. Beazer Homes USA 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.
M/I Homes has a net margin of 12.27% compared to M/I Homes' net margin of 7.48%. Beazer Homes USA's return on equity of 20.26% beat M/I Homes' return on equity.
Beazer Homes USA received 135 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 58.20% of users gave Beazer Homes USA an outperform vote.
In the previous week, M/I Homes had 1 more articles in the media than Beazer Homes USA. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for M/I Homes and 4 mentions for Beazer Homes USA. Beazer Homes USA's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat M/I Homes' score of -0.31 indicating that M/I Homes is being referred to more favorably in the media.
M/I Homes presently has a consensus price target of $130.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.77%. Beazer Homes USA has a consensus price target of $35.67, suggesting a potential upside of 30.17%. Given M/I Homes' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Beazer Homes USA is more favorable than M/I Homes.
Summary
M/I Homes beats Beazer Homes USA on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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