DHI vs. NVR, PHM, TOL, URI, CRH, LEN, OTIS, MLM, PWR, and VMC
Should you be buying D.R. Horton stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of D.R. Horton include NVR (NVR), PulteGroup (PHM), Toll Brothers (TOL), United Rentals (URI), CRH (CRH), Lennar (LEN), Otis Worldwide (OTIS), Martin Marietta Materials (MLM), Quanta Services (PWR), and Vulcan Materials (VMC). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
NVR (NYSE:NVR) and D.R. Horton (NYSE:DHI) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and profitability.
NVR presently has a consensus target price of $7,225.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.52%. D.R. Horton has a consensus target price of $158.06, suggesting a potential upside of 8.76%. Given NVR's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe D.R. Horton is more favorable than NVR.
NVR has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, D.R. Horton has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
D.R. Horton has higher revenue and earnings than NVR. D.R. Horton is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NVR, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NVR has a net margin of 17.33% compared to NVR's net margin of 13.39%. D.R. Horton's return on equity of 38.54% beat NVR's return on equity.
D.R. Horton received 377 more outperform votes than NVR when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.00% of users gave D.R. Horton an outperform vote while only 52.09% of users gave NVR an outperform vote.
In the previous week, NVR had 15 more articles in the media than D.R. Horton. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for NVR and 27 mentions for D.R. Horton. D.R. Horton's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat NVR's score of 0.47 indicating that NVR is being referred to more favorably in the media.
83.7% of NVR shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.6% of D.R. Horton shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.0% of NVR shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of D.R. Horton shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
NVR and D.R. Horton tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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