Meritage Stock Today
| MTH Stock | USD 66.23 0.43 0.65% |
PerformanceWeakest
| Odds Of DistressLow
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Meritage is trading at 66.23 as of the 2nd of January 2026. This is a 0.65% increase since the beginning of the trading day. The stock's open price was 65.8. Meritage has less than a 9 % chance of experiencing financial distress in the next few years, but has generated negative returns over the last 90 days. The performance scores are derived for the period starting the 3rd of December 2025 and ending today, the 2nd of January 2026. Click here to learn more.
Meritage Homes Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs and builds single-family homes in the United States. Meritage Homes Corporation was founded in 1985 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Meritage Corp operates under Residential Construction classification in the United States and is traded on New York Stock Exchange. The company has 70.41 M outstanding shares of which 3.99 M shares are now shorted by investors with about 4.98 days to cover. More on Meritage
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Meritage Stock Highlights
| Chairman | Steven Hilton |
| Old Names | [Mithras Investment Trust PLC, Ha Dong Environment Public Service JSC] |
| Business Concentration | Household Durables, Consumer Durables & Apparel, Consumer Discretionary, NYSE Composite, PHLX Housing, SP Small-Cap 600, Nasdaq Benchmark Consumer, Consumer Discretionary, Household Durables, Residential Construction, Consumer Cyclical (View all Sectors) |
Meritage (MTH) is traded on New York Stock Exchange in USA and employs 1,898 people. Meritage is listed under Household Durables category by Fama And French industry classification. The company currently falls under 'Mid-Cap' category with a total capitalization of 4.68 B. Meritage runs under Household Durables sector within Consumer Discretionary industry. The entity has 70.41 M outstanding shares of which 3.99 M shares are now shorted by investors with about 4.98 days to cover.
Meritage has about 651.55 M in cash with (227.58 M) of positive cash flow from operations. This results in cash-per-share (CPS) ratio of 8.19.
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Ownership AllocationThe majority of Meritage outstanding shares are owned by institutional investors. These third-party entities are usually referred to as non-private investors looking to shop for positions in Meritage to benefit from reduced commissions. Consequently, institutional holders are subject to a different set of regulations than regular investors in Meritage. Please pay attention to any change in the institutional holdings of Meritage as this could imply that something significant has changed or is about to change at the company.
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Investors will always prefer to have the highest possible return on investment while minimizing volatility. Meritage market risk premium is the additional return an investor will receive from holding Meritage long position in a well-diversified portfolio.
| Mean Deviation | 1.37 | |||
| Standard Deviation | 1.96 | |||
| Variance | 3.84 | |||
| Risk Adjusted Performance | (0.03) |
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Meritage Corporate Directors
| Michael Odell | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Peter Ax | Lead Independent Director | Profile | |
| Gerald Haddock | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Dana Bradford | Independent Director | Profile |
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Is Household Durables space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of Meritage. If investors know Meritage will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. 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.
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. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. 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.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Meritage's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Meritage is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Meritage's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.