Meritage Stock Forward View - Double Exponential Smoothing

MTH Stock  USD 69.51  0.45  0.64%   
Meritage Stock outlook is based on your current time horizon. We recommend always using this module together with an analysis of Meritage's historical fundamentals, such as revenue growth or operating cash flow patterns.
As of 31st of January 2026, the relative strength index (RSI) of Meritage's share price is approaching 49. This indicates that the stock is in nutural position, most likellhy at or near its support level. The main point of RSI analysis is to track how fast people are buying or selling Meritage, making its price go up or down.

Momentum 49

 Impartial

 
Oversold
 
Overbought
The successful prediction of Meritage's future price could yield a significant profit. We analyze noise-free headlines and recent hype associated with Meritage, which may create opportunities for some arbitrage if properly timed. Below are the key fundamental drivers impacting Meritage's stock price prediction:
Quarterly Earnings Growth
(0.49)
EPS Estimate Next Quarter
1.8844
EPS Estimate Current Year
6.5166
EPS Estimate Next Year
7.9356
Wall Street Target Price
84
Using Meritage hype-based prediction, you can estimate the value of Meritage from the perspective of Meritage response to recently generated media hype and the effects of current headlines on its competitors. We also analyze overall investor sentiment towards Meritage using Meritage's stock options and short interest. It helps to benchmark the overall future attitude of investors towards Meritage using crowd psychology based on the activity and movement of Meritage's stock price.

Meritage Short Interest

A significant increase or decrease in Meritage's short interest from the previous month could be a good indicator of investor sentiment towards Meritage. Short interest can provide insight into the potential direction of Meritage stock and how bullish or bearish investors feel about the market overall.
200 Day MA
70.349
Short Percent
0.0485
Short Ratio
3.64
Shares Short Prior Month
M
50 Day MA
70.5238

Meritage Relative Strength Index

The Double Exponential Smoothing forecasted value of Meritage on the next trading day is expected to be 69.43 with a mean absolute deviation of 1.21 and the sum of the absolute errors of 72.81.

Meritage Hype to Price Pattern

Investor biases related to Meritage's public news can be used to forecast risks associated with an investment in Meritage. The trend in average sentiment can be used to explain how an investor holding Meritage can time the market purely based on public headlines and social activities around Meritage. Please note that most equities that are difficult to arbitrage are affected by market sentiment the most.
Some investors profit by finding stocks that are overvalued or undervalued based on market sentiment. The correlation of Meritage's market sentiment to its price can help taders to make decisions based on the overall investors consensus about Meritage.

Meritage Implied Volatility

    
  0.59  
Meritage's implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of Meritage stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if Meritage's implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that Meritage stock will not fluctuate a lot when Meritage's options are near their expiration.
The Double Exponential Smoothing forecasted value of Meritage on the next trading day is expected to be 69.43 with a mean absolute deviation of 1.21 and the sum of the absolute errors of 72.81.

Meritage after-hype prediction price

    
  USD 69.62  
There is no one specific way to measure market sentiment using hype analysis or a similar predictive technique. This prediction method should be used in combination with more fundamental and traditional techniques such as stock price forecasting, technical analysis, analysts consensus, earnings estimates, and various momentum models.
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of Meritage to cross-verify your projections.
For more detail on how to invest in Meritage Stock please use our How to Invest in Meritage guide.

Prediction based on Rule 16 of the current Meritage contract

Based on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Meritage will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0369% per day over the life of the 2026-03-20 option contract. With Meritage trading at USD 69.51, that is roughly USD 0.0256 . If you think that the market is fully incorporating Meritage's daily price movement you should consider acquiring Meritage options at the current volatility level of 0.59%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.

Open Interest Against 2026-03-20 Meritage Option Contracts

Although open interest is a measure utilized in the options markets, it could be used to forecast Meritage's spot prices because the number of available contracts in the market changes daily, and new contracts can be created or liquidated at will. Since open interest in Meritage's options reflects these daily shifts, investors could use the patterns of these changes to develop long and short-term trading strategies for Meritage stock based on available contracts left at the end of a trading day.
Please note that to derive more accurate forecasting about market movement from the current Meritage's open interest, investors have to compare it to Meritage's spot prices. As Ford's stock price increases, high open interest indicates that money is entering the market, and the market is strongly bullish. Conversely, if the price of Meritage is decreasing and there is high open interest, that is a sign that the bearish trend will continue, and investors may react by taking short positions in Meritage. So, decreasing or low open interest during a bull market indicates that investors are becoming uncertain of the depth of the bullish trend, and a reversal in sentiment will likely follow.

Meritage Additional Predictive Modules

Most predictive techniques to examine Meritage price help traders to determine how to time the market. We provide a combination of tools to recognize potential entry and exit points for Meritage using various technical indicators. When you analyze Meritage charts, please remember that the event formation may indicate an entry point for a short seller, and look at other indicators across different periods to confirm that a breakdown or reversion is likely to occur.
Double exponential smoothing - also known as Holt exponential smoothing is a refinement of the popular simple exponential smoothing model with an additional trending component. Double exponential smoothing model for Meritage works best with periods where there are trends or seasonality.

Meritage Double Exponential Smoothing Price Forecast For the 1st of February

Given 90 days horizon, the Double Exponential Smoothing forecasted value of Meritage on the next trading day is expected to be 69.43 with a mean absolute deviation of 1.21, mean absolute percentage error of 2.90, and the sum of the absolute errors of 72.81.
Please note that although there have been many attempts to predict Meritage Stock prices using its time series forecasting, we generally do not recommend using it to place bets in the real market. The most commonly used models for forecasting predictions are the autoregressive models, which specify that Meritage's next future price depends linearly on its previous prices and some stochastic term (i.e., imperfectly predictable multiplier).

Meritage Stock Forecast Pattern

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Meritage Forecasted Value

In the context of forecasting Meritage's Stock value on the next trading day, we examine the predictive performance of the model to find good statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios. Meritage's downside and upside margins for the forecasting period are 67.04 and 71.82, respectively. We have considered Meritage's daily market price to evaluate the above model's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that traditional linear or nonlinear forecasting models outperform artificial intelligence and frequency domain models to provide accurate forecasts consistently.
Market Value
69.51
69.43
Expected Value
71.82
Upside

Model Predictive Factors

The below table displays some essential indicators generated by the model showing the Double Exponential Smoothing forecasting method's relative quality and the estimations of the prediction error of Meritage stock data series using in forecasting. Note that when a statistical model is used to represent Meritage stock, the representation will rarely be exact; so some information will be lost using the model to explain the process. AIC estimates the relative amount of information lost by a given model: the less information a model loses, the higher its quality.
AICAkaike Information CriteriaHuge
BiasArithmetic mean of the errors -0.2098
MADMean absolute deviation1.2135
MAPEMean absolute percentage error0.0171
SAESum of the absolute errors72.808
When Meritage prices exhibit either an increasing or decreasing trend over time, simple exponential smoothing forecasts tend to lag behind observations. Double exponential smoothing is designed to address this type of data series by taking into account any Meritage trend in the prices. So in double exponential smoothing past observations are given exponentially smaller weights as the observations get older. In other words, recent Meritage observations are given relatively more weight in forecasting than the older observations.

Predictive Modules for Meritage

There are currently many different techniques concerning forecasting the market as a whole, as well as predicting future values of individual securities such as Meritage. Regardless of method or technology, however, to accurately forecast the stock market is more a matter of luck rather than a particular technique. Nevertheless, trying to predict the stock market accurately is still an essential part of the overall investment decision process. Using different forecasting techniques and comparing the results might improve your chances of accuracy even though unexpected events may often change the market sentiment and impact your forecasting results.
Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, anticipate that the market will even out over time. This tendency of Meritage's price to converge to an average value over time is called mean reversion. However, historically, high market prices usually discourage investors that believe in mean reversion to invest, while low prices are viewed as an opportunity to buy.
Hype
Prediction
LowEstimatedHigh
67.2369.6272.01
Details
Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
62.5677.2479.63
Details
Bollinger
Band Projection (param)
LowMiddleHigh
62.5571.2279.88
Details
12 Analysts
Consensus
LowTargetHigh
76.4484.0093.24
Details

Meritage After-Hype Price Density Analysis

As far as predicting the price of Meritage at your current risk attitude, this probability distribution graph shows the chance that the prediction will fall between or within a specific range. We use this chart to confirm that your returns on investing in Meritage or, for that matter, your successful expectations of its future price, cannot be replicated consistently. Please note, a large amount of money has been lost over the years by many investors who confused the symmetrical distributions of Stock prices, such as prices of Meritage, with the unreliable approximations that try to describe financial returns.
   Next price density   
       Expected price to next headline  

Meritage Estimiated After-Hype Price Volatility

In the context of predicting Meritage's stock value on the day after the next significant headline, we show statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios based on Meritage's historical news coverage. Meritage's after-hype downside and upside margins for the prediction period are 67.23 and 72.01, respectively. We have considered Meritage's daily market price in relation to the headlines to evaluate this method's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that news-based prediction models outperform traditional linear, nonlinear models or artificial intelligence models to provide accurate predictions consistently.
Current Value
69.51
69.62
After-hype Price
72.01
Upside
Meritage is very steady at this time. Analysis and calculation of next after-hype price of Meritage is based on 3 months time horizon.

Meritage Stock Price Outlook Analysis

Have you ever been surprised when a price of a Company such as Meritage is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading Meritage backward and forwards among themselves. Have you ever observed a lot of a particular company's price movement is driven by press releases or news about the company that has nothing to do with actual earnings? Usually, hype to individual companies acts as price momentum. If not enough favorable publicity is forthcoming, the Stock price eventually runs out of speed. So, the rule of thumb here is that as long as this news hype has nothing to do with immediate earnings, you should pay more attention to it. If you see this tendency with Meritage, there might be something going there, and it might present an excellent short sale opportunity.
Expected ReturnPeriod VolatilityHype ElasticityRelated ElasticityNews DensityRelated DensityExpected Hype
  0.13 
2.39
  0.11 
  0.15 
9 Events / Month
7 Events / Month
In about 9 days
Latest traded priceExpected after-news pricePotential return on next major newsAverage after-hype volatility
69.51
69.62
0.16 
284.52  
Notes

Meritage Hype Timeline

On the 31st of January Meritage is traded for 69.51. The entity has historical hype elasticity of 0.11, and average elasticity to hype of competition of 0.15. Meritage is anticipated to increase in value after the next headline, with the price projected to jump to 69.62 or above. The average volatility of media hype impact on the company the price is over 100%. The price growth on the next news is projected to be 0.16%, whereas the daily expected return is now at 0.13%. The volatility of related hype on Meritage is about 206.03%, with the expected price after the next announcement by competition of 69.66. The company reported the last year's revenue of 5.86 B. Total Income to common stockholders was 453.01 M with profit before taxes, overhead, and interest of 1.18 B. Considering the 90-day investment horizon the next anticipated press release will be in about 9 days.
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of Meritage to cross-verify your projections.
For more detail on how to invest in Meritage Stock please use our How to Invest in Meritage guide.

Meritage Related Hype Analysis

Having access to credible news sources related to Meritage's direct competition is more important than ever and may enhance your ability to predict Meritage's future price movements. Getting to know how Meritage's peers react to changing market sentiment, related social signals, and mainstream news is a great way to find investing opportunities and time the market. The summary table below summarizes the essential lagging indicators that can help you analyze how Meritage may potentially react to the hype associated with one of its peers.
Hype
Elasticity
News
Density
Semi
Deviation
Information
Ratio
Potential
Upside
Value
At Risk
Maximum
Drawdown
KBHKB Home 1.08 10 per month 0.00 (0.07) 4.30 (2.48) 15.09 
CVCOCavco Industries 4.16 9 per month 2.56  0.01  4.83 (3.02) 9.67 
MHOMI Homes 3.62 9 per month 1.74  0.02  4.51 (3.54) 10.17 
SKYSkyline(1.08)10 per month 2.31  0.04  4.86 (3.90) 14.88 
TMHCTaylor Morn Home(0.59)7 per month 1.32 (0.01) 3.92 (2.69) 10.34 
GPKGraphic Packaging Holding(0.13)13 per month 0.00 (0.12) 3.59 (3.21) 17.54 
ABGAsbury Automotive Group 0.99 7 per month 1.77 (0.03) 3.65 (2.74) 10.40 
EATBrinker International 4.16 13 per month 2.41  0.11  6.16 (4.67) 12.88 
TPHTRI Pointe Homes(0.27)10 per month 1.57 (0.01) 5.16 (2.65) 11.56 
GRBKGreen Brick Partners(0.34)8 per month 1.56  0  4.56 (3.08) 10.63 

Other Forecasting Options for Meritage

For every potential investor in Meritage, whether a beginner or expert, Meritage's price movement is the inherent factor that sparks whether it is viable to invest in it or hold it better. Meritage Stock price charts are filled with many 'noises.' These noises can hugely alter the decision one can make regarding investing in Meritage. Basic forecasting techniques help filter out the noise by identifying Meritage's price trends.

Meritage Related Equities

One of the popular trading techniques among algorithmic traders is to use market-neutral strategies where every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if one position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Below are some of the equities that can be combined with Meritage stock to make a market-neutral strategy. Peer analysis of Meritage could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Meritage by comparing valuation metrics with similar companies.
 Risk & Return  Correlation

Meritage Market Strength Events

Market strength indicators help investors to evaluate how Meritage stock reacts to ongoing and evolving market conditions. The investors can use it to make informed decisions about market timing, and determine when trading Meritage shares will generate the highest return on investment. By undertsting and applying Meritage stock market strength indicators, traders can identify Meritage entry and exit signals to maximize returns.

Meritage Risk Indicators

The analysis of Meritage's basic risk indicators is one of the essential steps in accurately forecasting its future price. The process involves identifying the amount of risk involved in Meritage's investment and either accepting that risk or mitigating it. Along with some essential techniques for forecasting meritage stock prices, we also provide a set of basic risk indicators that can assist in the individual investment decision or help in hedging the risk of your existing portfolios.
Please note, the risk measures we provide can be used independently or collectively to perform a risk assessment. When comparing two potential investments, we recommend comparing similar equities with homogenous growth potential and valuation from related markets to determine which investment holds the most risk.

Story Coverage note for Meritage

The number of cover stories for Meritage depends on current market conditions and Meritage's risk-adjusted performance over time. The coverage that generates the most noise at a given time depends on the prevailing investment theme that Meritage is classified under. However, while its typical story may have numerous social followers, the rapid visibility can also attract short-sellers, who usually are skeptical about Meritage's long-term prospects. So, having above-average coverage will typically attract above-average short interest, leading to significant price volatility.

Meritage Short Properties

Meritage's future price predictability will typically decrease when Meritage's long traders begin to feel the short-sellers pressure to drive the price lower. The predictive aspect of Meritage often depends not only on the future outlook of the potential Meritage's investors but also on the ongoing dynamics between investors with different trading styles. Because the market risk indicators may have small false signals, it is better to identify suitable times to hedge a portfolio using different long/short signals. Meritage's indicators that are reflective of the short sentiment are summarized in the table below.
Common Stock Shares Outstanding70.8 M
Cash And Short Term Investments775.2 M
When determining whether Meritage offers a strong return on investment in its stock, a comprehensive analysis is essential. The process typically begins with a thorough review of Meritage's financial statements, including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements, to assess its financial health. Key financial ratios are used to gauge profitability, efficiency, and growth potential of Meritage Stock. Outlined below are crucial reports that will aid in making a well-informed decision on Meritage Stock:
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of Meritage to cross-verify your projections.
For more detail on how to invest in Meritage Stock please use our How to Invest in Meritage guide.
You can also try the AI Portfolio Prophet module to use AI to generate optimal portfolios and find profitable investment opportunities.
Is there potential for Household Durables market expansion? Will Meritage introduce new products? Factors like these will boost the valuation of Meritage. Expected growth trajectory for Meritage significantly influences the price investors are willing to assign. Understanding fair value requires weighing current performance against future potential. All the valuation information about Meritage listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth
(0.49)
Dividend Share
1.72
Earnings Share
6.35
Revenue Per Share
82.713
Quarterly Revenue Growth
(0.12)
The market value of Meritage is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Meritage that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Meritage's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Meritage's true underlying value. Analysts utilize numerous techniques to assess fundamental value, seeking to purchase shares when trading prices fall beneath estimated intrinsic worth. Because Meritage's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Meritage's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Understanding that Meritage's value differs from its trading price is crucial, as each reflects different aspects of the company. Evaluating whether Meritage represents a sound investment requires analyzing earnings trends, revenue growth, technical signals, industry dynamics, and expert forecasts. Meanwhile, Meritage's quoted price indicates the marketplace figure where supply meets demand through bilateral consent.