GRBK vs. MTH, TMHC, KBH, TPH, MHO, DFH, CCS, LGIH, HOV, and BZH
Should you be buying Green Brick Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Green Brick Partners include Meritage Homes (MTH), Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), KB Home (KBH), Tri Pointe Homes (TPH), M/I Homes (MHO), Dream Finders Homes (DFH), Century Communities (CCS), LGI Homes (LGIH), Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), and Beazer Homes USA (BZH). These companies are all part of the "operative builders" industry.
Green Brick Partners (NASDAQ:GRBK) and Meritage Homes (NYSE:MTH) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
Green Brick Partners currently has a consensus price target of $55.50, indicating a potential upside of 1.31%. Meritage Homes has a consensus price target of $178.25, indicating a potential upside of 3.49%. Given Meritage Homes' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Meritage Homes is more favorable than Green Brick Partners.
Meritage Homes has higher revenue and earnings than Green Brick Partners. Meritage Homes is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Green Brick Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Meritage Homes had 3 more articles in the media than Green Brick Partners. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Meritage Homes and 4 mentions for Green Brick Partners. Green Brick Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Meritage Homes' score of 0.63 indicating that Green Brick Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
78.2% of Green Brick Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.4% of Meritage Homes shares are owned by institutional investors. 44.4% of Green Brick Partners shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Meritage Homes shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Meritage Homes received 203 more outperform votes than Green Brick Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.16% of users gave Green Brick Partners an outperform vote while only 55.33% of users gave Meritage Homes an outperform vote.
Green Brick Partners has a beta of 1.73, meaning that its stock price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Meritage Homes has a beta of 1.75, meaning that its stock price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Green Brick Partners has a net margin of 17.13% compared to Meritage Homes' net margin of 12.54%. Green Brick Partners' return on equity of 24.40% beat Meritage Homes' return on equity.
Summary
Meritage Homes beats Green Brick Partners on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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