MTH vs. TOL, KBH, CVCO, MHO, TPH, BZH, HOV, DHI, LEN, and NVR
Should you be buying Meritage Homes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Meritage Homes include Toll Brothers (TOL), KB Home (KBH), 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.
Meritage Homes vs.
Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL) and Meritage Homes (NYSE:MTH) are both construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.
Toll Brothers received 207 more outperform votes than Meritage Homes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.02% of users gave Toll Brothers an outperform vote while only 54.81% of users gave Meritage Homes an outperform vote.
Toll Brothers pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Meritage Homes pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Toll Brothers pays out 6.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Meritage Homes pays out 13.6% 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.
Toll Brothers has a beta of 1.74, suggesting that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Meritage Homes has a beta of 1.87, suggesting that its stock price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Toll Brothers presently has a consensus target price of $156.64, indicating a potential upside of 15.69%. Meritage Homes has a consensus target price of $107.38, indicating a potential upside of 33.20%. Given Meritage Homes' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Meritage Homes is more favorable than Toll Brothers.
In the previous week, Toll Brothers had 18 more articles in the media than Meritage Homes. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Toll Brothers and 6 mentions for Meritage Homes. Toll Brothers' average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat Meritage Homes' score of -0.30 indicating that Toll Brothers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Toll Brothers has higher revenue and earnings than Meritage Homes. Meritage Homes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Toll Brothers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
91.8% of Toll Brothers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.4% of Meritage Homes shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Toll Brothers shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Meritage Homes shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Toll Brothers has a net margin of 14.48% compared to Meritage Homes' net margin of 12.63%. Toll Brothers' return on equity of 19.64% beat Meritage Homes' return on equity.
Summary
Toll Brothers beats Meritage Homes on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:MTH) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
