MTH vs. TOL, KBH, CVCO, TPH, MHO, HOV, BZH, 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), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), M/I Homes (MHO), Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), Beazer Homes USA (BZH), 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 contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and valuation.
Toll Brothers has a beta of 1.76, indicating that its stock price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Meritage Homes has a beta of 1.88, indicating that its stock price is 88% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Toll Brothers received 215 more outperform votes than Meritage Homes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.12% of users gave Toll Brothers an outperform vote while only 54.67% of users gave Meritage Homes an outperform vote.
Toll Brothers has a net margin of 14.03% compared to Meritage Homes' net margin of 12.29%. Toll Brothers' return on equity of 18.32% beat Meritage Homes' return on equity.
Toll Brothers presently has a consensus price target of $150.86, suggesting a potential upside of 35.36%. Meritage Homes has a consensus price target of $106.25, suggesting a potential upside of 43.90%. Given Meritage Homes' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Meritage Homes is more favorable than Toll Brothers.
In the previous week, Toll Brothers had 50 more articles in the media than Meritage Homes. MarketBeat recorded 60 mentions for Toll Brothers and 10 mentions for Meritage Homes. Meritage Homes' average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Toll Brothers' score of 0.07 indicating that Meritage Homes is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Toll Brothers pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Meritage Homes pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Toll Brothers pays out 6.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Meritage Homes pays out 11.5% 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 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 owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.4% of Meritage Homes shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Toll Brothers shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Meritage Homes shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Toll Brothers beats Meritage Homes on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:MTH) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
