PHM vs. NVR, TOL, MTH, DHI, TMHC, ROL, WY, WSO, EME, and WSO.B
Should you be buying PulteGroup stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PulteGroup include NVR (NVR), Toll Brothers (TOL), Meritage Homes (MTH), D.R. Horton (DHI), Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), Rollins (ROL), Weyerhaeuser (WY), Watsco (WSO), EMCOR Group (EME), and Watsco (WSO.B). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
PulteGroup (NYSE:PHM) and NVR (NYSE:NVR) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.
PulteGroup has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NVR has a beta of 1.13, meaning that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PulteGroup currently has a consensus price target of $111.73, suggesting a potential downside of 5.05%. NVR has a consensus price target of $7,225.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.62%. Given PulteGroup's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe PulteGroup is more favorable than NVR.
89.9% of PulteGroup shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.7% of NVR shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of PulteGroup shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.0% of NVR shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
NVR has a net margin of 17.33% compared to PulteGroup's net margin of 16.63%. NVR's return on equity of 38.54% beat PulteGroup's return on equity.
PulteGroup received 394 more outperform votes than NVR when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.85% of users gave PulteGroup an outperform vote while only 52.09% of users gave NVR an outperform vote.
In the previous week, NVR had 3 more articles in the media than PulteGroup. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for NVR and 21 mentions for PulteGroup. PulteGroup's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat NVR's score of 0.67 indicating that PulteGroup is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PulteGroup has higher revenue and earnings than NVR. PulteGroup is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NVR, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
PulteGroup beats NVR on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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