LGIH vs. GRBK, PRK, FFBC, INDB, NYCB, SFNC, BANC, FCPT, GSHD, and PSEC
Should you be buying LGI Homes stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LGI Homes include Green Brick Partners (GRBK), Park National (PRK), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), Independent Bank (INDB), New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), Simmons First National (SFNC), Banc of California (BANC), Four Corners Property Trust (FCPT), Goosehead Insurance (GSHD), and Prospect Capital (PSEC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
LGI Homes (NASDAQ:LGIH) and Green Brick Partners (NASDAQ:GRBK) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
LGI Homes presently has a consensus price target of $110.50, indicating a potential upside of 23.53%. Green Brick Partners has a consensus price target of $52.00, indicating a potential downside of 5.59%. Given LGI Homes' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe LGI Homes is more favorable than Green Brick Partners.
84.9% of LGI Homes shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.2% of Green Brick Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 12.2% of LGI Homes shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 44.4% of Green Brick Partners 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.
LGI Homes has a beta of 1.83, indicating that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Green Brick Partners has a beta of 1.71, indicating that its share price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Green Brick Partners has lower revenue, but higher earnings than LGI Homes. Green Brick Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than LGI Homes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
LGI Homes received 198 more outperform votes than Green Brick Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.60% of users gave LGI Homes an outperform vote while only 58.46% of users gave Green Brick Partners an outperform vote.
Green Brick Partners has a net margin of 16.01% compared to LGI Homes' net margin of 8.45%. Green Brick Partners' return on equity of 24.19% beat LGI Homes' return on equity.
In the previous week, LGI Homes had 7 more articles in the media than Green Brick Partners. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for LGI Homes and 4 mentions for Green Brick Partners. Green Brick Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat LGI Homes' score of -0.18 indicating that Green Brick Partners is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
LGI Homes beats Green Brick Partners on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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