KB Home (KBH) Competitors

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

Which has more risk and volatility, KBH or TOL?

KB Home has a beta of 1.86, indicating that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Toll Brothers has a beta of 1.76, indicating that its share price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is KBH or TOL a better dividend stock?

KB Home pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Toll Brothers pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. KB Home pays out 11.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Toll Brothers pays out 6.3% 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.

Do analysts prefer KBH or TOL?

KB Home currently has a consensus price target of $76.21, indicating a potential upside of 24.33%. Toll Brothers has a consensus price target of $150.86, indicating a potential upside of 35.36%. Given Toll Brothers' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly 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)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.08
Toll Brothers	1 Sell rating(s)	5 Hold rating(s)	8 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.60

Is KBH or TOL more profitable?

Toll Brothers has a net margin of 14.03% compared to KB Home's net margin of 9.45%. Toll Brothers' return on equity of 18.32% beat KB Home's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
KB Home	9.45%	16.46%	9.61%
Toll Brothers	14.03%	18.32%	10.34%

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in KBH or TOL?

96.1% of KB Home shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of Toll Brothers shares are held by institutional investors. 4.4% of KB Home shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Toll Brothers shares are held by 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer KBH or TOL?

Toll Brothers received 106 more outperform votes than KB Home when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.12% of users gave Toll Brothers an outperform vote while only 46.44% of users gave KB Home an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
KB Home	Outperform Votes 548 46.44%	Underperform Votes 632 53.56%
Toll Brothers	Outperform Votes 654 57.12%	Underperform Votes 491 42.88%

Does the media refer more to KBH or TOL?

In the previous week, Toll Brothers had 54 more articles in the media than KB Home. MarketBeat recorded 61 mentions for Toll Brothers and 7 mentions for KB Home. KB Home's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Toll Brothers' score of 0.07 indicating that KB Home is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
KB Home	6 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Toll Brothers	10 Very Positive mention(s)	6 Positive mention(s)	21 Neutral mention(s)	13 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Which has better valuation and earnings, KBH or TOL?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
KB Home	$6.93B	0.64	$655.02M	$8.47	7.24
Toll Brothers	$10.85B	1.03	$1.57B	$14.53	7.67

Summary

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