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KBH vs. TOL, MTH, CVCO, MHO, TPH, BZH, HOV, DHI, LEN, and NVR

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

KB Home vs.

KB Home (NYSE:KBH) and Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL) are both construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation and dividends.

Toll Brothers has higher revenue and earnings than KB Home. KB Home is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Toll Brothers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
KB Home$6.41B0.78$590.18M$7.808.72
Toll Brothers$10.85B1.25$1.57B$15.039.01

KB Home pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Toll Brothers pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. KB Home pays out 12.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Toll Brothers pays out 6.1% 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.

KB Home has a beta of 1.86, meaning that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Toll Brothers has a beta of 1.74, meaning that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.

96.1% of KB Home shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of Toll Brothers shares are held by institutional investors. 3.5% of KB Home shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Toll Brothers shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, KB Home had 56 more articles in the media than Toll Brothers. MarketBeat recorded 82 mentions for KB Home and 26 mentions for Toll Brothers. Toll Brothers' average media sentiment score of 0.47 beat KB Home's score of 0.42 indicating that Toll Brothers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
KB Home
18 Very Positive mention(s)
9 Positive mention(s)
23 Neutral mention(s)
12 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Toll Brothers
8 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
13 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Toll Brothers has a net margin of 14.48% compared to KB Home's net margin of 9.31%. Toll Brothers' return on equity of 19.64% beat KB Home's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
KB Home9.31% 15.69% 9.11%
Toll Brothers 14.48%19.64%11.02%

KB Home presently has a consensus target price of $76.32, suggesting a potential upside of 12.25%. Toll Brothers has a consensus target price of $156.64, suggesting a potential upside of 15.69%. Given Toll Brothers' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Toll Brothers is more favorable than KB Home.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
KB Home
2 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Toll Brothers
2 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.53

Toll Brothers received 99 more outperform votes than KB Home when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.02% of users gave Toll Brothers an outperform vote while only 46.47% of users gave KB Home an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
KB HomeOutperform Votes
547
46.47%
Underperform Votes
630
53.53%
Toll BrothersOutperform Votes
646
57.02%
Underperform Votes
487
42.98%

Summary

Toll Brothers beats KB Home on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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KBH vs. The Competition

MetricKB HomeOperative builders IndustryConstruction SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$4.63B$7.37B$8.94B$19.35B
Dividend Yield1.58%1.31%2.04%3.72%
P/E Ratio8.727.8426.7841.30
Price / Sales0.781.023.8217.06
Price / Cash7.968.3021.6619.84
Price / Book1.421.756.875.76
Net Income$590.18M$803.39M$518.49M$993.25M
7 Day Performance7.61%9.59%5.50%3.26%
1 Month Performance1.08%0.75%4.21%5.22%
1 Year Performance11.20%-1.95%53.02%19.40%

KB Home Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KBH
KB Home
4.7661 of 5 stars
$67.99
-0.4%
$76.32
+12.3%
+13.3%$4.63B$6.41B8.722,205Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
News Coverage
TOL
Toll Brothers
4.8831 of 5 stars
$125.61
+1.7%
$158.07
+25.8%
+36.9%$12.57B$10.85B8.365,200Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Gap Up
MTH
Meritage Homes
4.2433 of 5 stars
$75.60
+2.3%
$109.56
+44.9%
-4.4%$5.47B$6.43B3.421,920Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
Gap Up
CVCO
Cavco Industries
2.8059 of 5 stars
$441.51
+2.4%
$487.50
+10.4%
+55.6%$3.58B$1.85B24.966,300Insider Trade
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
MHO
M/I Homes
4.3291 of 5 stars
$126.24
+1.7%
$197.50
+56.4%
+6.8%$3.50B$4.27B6.771,660News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
TPH
Tri Pointe Homes
3.1987 of 5 stars
$35.06
+2.3%
$45.75
+30.5%
+9.7%$3.28B$4.50B7.271,438Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Positive News
BZH
Beazer Homes USA
4.657 of 5 stars
$26.01
+1.5%
$39.67
+52.5%
-9.4%$811.59M$2.33B5.741,130Short Interest ↑
Negative News
HOV
Hovnanian Enterprises
2.3738 of 5 stars
$120.46
+2.4%
$155.00
+28.7%
-7.6%$729.39M$3.00B3.751,870Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
DHI
D.R. Horton
4.9481 of 5 stars
$138.09
+1.2%
$176.93
+28.1%
-2.7%$44.35B$36.80B9.6214,766Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
LEN
Lennar
4.8672 of 5 stars
$131.58
+1.6%
$171.50
+30.3%
-5.4%$35.69B$35.44B8.7112,000Dividend Announcement
NVR
NVR
4.0849 of 5 stars
$7,989.50
+1.8%
$9,531.67
+19.3%
+18.0%$24.48B$10.13B16.336,300Positive News

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This page (NYSE:KBH) was last updated on 1/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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