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Meritage Homes (MTH) Competitors

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$178.27 +0.02 (+0.01%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

MTH vs. TOL, KBH, MHO, TPH, CVCO, 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), M/I Homes (MHO), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), Cavco Industries (CVCO), 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.

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

Meritage Homes presently has a consensus target price of $218.17, suggesting a potential upside of 22.38%. Toll Brothers has a consensus target price of $148.87, suggesting a potential downside of 2.04%. Given Meritage Homes' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Meritage Homes is more favorable than Toll Brothers.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Meritage Homes
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Toll Brothers
2 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.69

98.4% of Meritage Homes shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of Toll Brothers shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Meritage Homes shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.5% of Toll Brothers shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Meritage Homes has a beta of 1.82, suggesting that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Toll Brothers has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Toll Brothers received 203 more outperform votes than Meritage Homes when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.99% of users gave Toll Brothers an outperform vote while only 55.04% of users gave Meritage Homes an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Meritage HomesOutperform Votes
437
55.04%
Underperform Votes
357
44.96%
Toll BrothersOutperform Votes
640
56.99%
Underperform Votes
483
43.01%

In the previous week, Toll Brothers had 11 more articles in the media than Meritage Homes. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Toll Brothers and 7 mentions for Meritage Homes. Meritage Homes' average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat Toll Brothers' score of 0.66 indicating that Meritage Homes is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Meritage Homes
6 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Toll Brothers
11 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Toll Brothers has a net margin of 14.63% compared to Meritage Homes' net margin of 12.63%. Toll Brothers' return on equity of 19.82% beat Meritage Homes' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Meritage Homes12.63% 16.89% 12.09%
Toll Brothers 14.63%19.82%10.97%

Meritage Homes pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Toll Brothers pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Meritage Homes pays out 13.6% 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.

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Meritage Homes$6.14B1.05$738.75M$22.098.07
Toll Brothers$9.99B1.54$1.37B$14.5110.47

Summary

Toll Brothers beats Meritage Homes on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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MTH vs. The Competition

MetricMeritage HomesOperative builders IndustryConstruction SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$6.45B$9.16B$9.58B$19.85B
Dividend Yield1.67%1.06%1.83%3.52%
P/E Ratio8.079.4129.7942.73
Price / Sales1.051.123.3019.27
Price / Cash8.5610.5817.9017.86
Price / Book1.412.036.045.52
Net Income$738.75M$827.33M$519.29M$986.45M
7 Day Performance-1.79%-1.22%0.24%0.45%
1 Month Performance-7.94%-6.78%0.89%1.05%
1 Year Performance26.53%34.65%35.94%24.67%

Meritage Homes Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MTH
Meritage Homes
3.2204 of 5 stars
$178.27
+0.0%
$218.17
+22.4%
+24.8%$6.45B$6.14B8.071,920Positive News
TOL
Toll Brothers
4.1352 of 5 stars
$151.96
+0.1%
$148.87
-2.0%
+76.6%$15.32B$9.99B10.474,800
KBH
KB Home
4.6214 of 5 stars
$77.97
+0.2%
$77.50
-0.6%
+46.0%$5.72B$6.60B9.982,205Positive News
MHO
M/I Homes
3.8477 of 5 stars
$154.61
-0.7%
$197.50
+27.7%
+47.8%$4.29B$4.27B8.291,607
TPH
Tri Pointe Homes
2.7476 of 5 stars
$41.74
+0.1%
$45.75
+9.6%
+41.0%$3.90B$3.67B8.661,438Positive News
CVCO
Cavco Industries
2.8724 of 5 stars
$475.41
+0.9%
$475.00
-0.1%
+65.7%$3.86B$1.79B26.526,500Positive News
HOV
Hovnanian Enterprises
1.3294 of 5 stars
$172.04
-0.2%
$155.00
-9.9%
+89.4%$1.04B$2.91B5.311,715Positive News
BZH
Beazer Homes USA
4.1752 of 5 stars
$32.66
-0.8%
$39.67
+21.5%
+22.6%$1.02B$2.33B7.211,158Upcoming Earnings
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DHI
D.R. Horton
4.8517 of 5 stars
$163.13
+0.5%
$185.87
+13.9%
+27.0%$53.15B$36.80B11.3613,450Positive News
LEN
Lennar
4.4392 of 5 stars
$168.23
-0.3%
$180.56
+7.3%
+31.1%$45.63B$34.23B11.1412,284Positive News
NVR
NVR
3.195 of 5 stars
$9,000.00
+0.5%
$8,783.33
-2.4%
+42.7%$27.54B$9.31B18.406,300

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This page (NYSE:MTH) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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