Meritage Homes (MTH) Stock Price, News & Analysis

7 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Meritage Homes in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" MTH shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in MTH, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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7 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for Meritage Homes' stock. Their MTH share price targets range from $148.00 to $188.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $172.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 14.8% from the stock's current price.
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Meritage Homes' stock was trading at $174.20 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, MTH stock has decreased by 13.6% and is now trading at $150.44.
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Meritage Homes saw a drop in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 827,900 shares, a drop of 24.7% from the March 15th total of 1,100,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 418,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.0 days. Approximately 2.4% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 24th 2024.
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Meritage Homes will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, April 25th at 11:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Meritage Homes Co. (NYSE:MTH) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, January, 31st. The construction company reported $5.38 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $5.18 by $0.20. The construction company earned $1.65 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.52 billion. Meritage Homes had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 17.03% and a net margin of 12.03%.

Meritage Homes announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, February 22nd. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 15th will be given a dividend of $0.75 per share on Friday, March 29th. This represents a $3.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.99%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 14th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.27.
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Meritage Homes (NYSE:MTH) pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.00%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 15.06%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, MTH will have a dividend payout ratio of 15.15% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Meritage Homes (NYSE:MTH) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Discretionary ETF (PSCD), Invesco MSCI Green Building ETF (GBLD), Global X Green Building ETF (GRNR), Invesco S&P SmallCap Momentum ETF (XSMO), iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF (ITB), Hoya Capital Housing ETF (HOMZ), Invesco MSCI Sustainable Future ETF (PZD) and Direxion Daily Homebuilders & Supplies Bull 3x Shares (NAIL).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Meritage Homes investors own include D.R. Horton (DHI), Verizon Communications (VZ), NVIDIA (NVDA), Pfizer (PFE), Home Depot (HD), QUALCOMM (QCOM), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Salesforce (CRM), Walt Disney (DIS) and AT&T (T).

Meritage Homes' stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.59%), Security National Bank (0.16%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.13%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.09%), Leibman Financial Services Inc. (0.05%) and Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services LLC (0.03%). Insiders that own company stock include Alison Sasser, C Timothy White, Clinton Szubinski, Gerald W Haddock, Gerald W Haddock, Hilla Sferruzza, Javier Feliciano, Peter L Ax, Peter L Ax, Phillippe Lord, Raymond Oppel and Steven J Hilton.
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