BZH vs. MHO, CVCO, HOV, DHI, LEN, PHM, NVR, TOL, MTH, and KBH
Should you be buying Beazer Homes USA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Beazer Homes USA include M/I Homes (MHO), Cavco Industries (CVCO), Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), D.R. Horton (DHI), Lennar (LEN), PulteGroup (PHM), NVR (NVR), Toll Brothers (TOL), Meritage Homes (MTH), and KB Home (KBH). These companies are all part of the "homebuilding" industry.
M/I Homes (NYSE:MHO) and Beazer Homes USA (NYSE:BZH) are both construction companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and community ranking.
95.1% of M/I Homes shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.7% of Beazer Homes USA shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of M/I Homes shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of Beazer Homes USA shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
M/I Homes has a beta of 2.16, suggesting that its stock price is 116% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Beazer Homes USA has a beta of 2.25, suggesting that its stock price is 125% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Beazer Homes USA had 7 more articles in the media than M/I Homes. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Beazer Homes USA and 2 mentions for M/I Homes. Beazer Homes USA's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat M/I Homes' score of 0.41 indicating that M/I Homes is being referred to more favorably in the media.
M/I Homes presently has a consensus target price of $130.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.07%. Beazer Homes USA has a consensus target price of $36.00, indicating a potential upside of 25.35%. Given M/I Homes' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Beazer Homes USA is more favorable than M/I Homes.
M/I Homes has higher revenue and earnings than Beazer Homes USA. Beazer Homes USA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than M/I Homes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
M/I Homes has a net margin of 12.27% compared to M/I Homes' net margin of 7.48%. Beazer Homes USA's return on equity of 20.26% beat M/I Homes' return on equity.
Beazer Homes USA received 136 more outperform votes than M/I Homes when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.42% of users gave M/I Homes an outperform vote while only 58.27% of users gave Beazer Homes USA an outperform vote.
Summary
M/I Homes beats Beazer Homes USA on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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