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Meritage Homes Corporation

6/19/2013, 6:16 AM ET

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Thursday, April 25, 3:24 PM The Homebuilder ETF (XHB +1.2%) gains after PulteGroup (PHM +5.5%) reported Q1 closings up 23%, with the average selling price up 10%. Meritage Homes (MTH +1.1%) yesterday reported a 17% increase in prices, while Ryland Group (RYL +6.7%) last night said its average price rose 8.2%. "Housing demand is greater than the supply of homes available for sale in many of the areas where we operate," says Meritage CEO Steven Hilton. Comment! [On the Move]
Wednesday, April 24, 12:19 PM Meritage Homes (MTH +5.2%) moves higher today on a solid Q1 earnings beat this morning. The number of closed homes for the quarter jumped 17% as closing surged 39% and orders jumped 35%. What's really driving the stock right now is its forecast for FY13. The homebuilder's EPS forecast, based on a 40% increase in closings revenue the rest of the year, puts the midpoint of its profit estimate more than 15% above consensus views - which were already double that from 2012. It now expects to earn between $2.20 - 2.45, versus Street estimates of $2.04. Comment! [Earnings, On the Move]
Wednesday, April 24, 8:08 AM Meritage (MTH): Q1 EPS of $0.32 beats by $0.07. Revenue of $336.4M beats by $12.02M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News]
Wednesday, April 24, 12:05 AM Notable earnings before Wednesday’s open: ABB, ABX, ASH, ATI, AVY, BA, BYD, CFR, CKSW, COR, CP, CS, CVE, DPS, EDU, ELN, EMN, ERIC, F, FDML, GD, GLW, GRA, HCBK, HES, ICON, LAD, LL, LLY, LO, MDCO, MSI, MTH, NDAQ, NOC, NS, NVS, NYCB, OC, OCR, OSIS, PG, PLD, PX, RES, ROK, S, SO, SVU, TEL, TKR, TMO, TROW, TUP, USG, VLY, VMED, WAB, WHR, WLP, WM, WYN Comment! [Earnings]
Tuesday, April 23, 5:30 PM Notable earnings before Wednesday’s open: ABB, ABX, ASH, ATI, AVY, BA, BYD, CFR, CKSW, COR, CP, CS, CVE, DPS, EDU, ELN, EMN, ERIC, F, FDML, GD, GLW, GRA, HCBK, HES, ICON, LAD, LL, LLY, LO, MDCO, MSI, MTH, NDAQ, NOC, NS, NVS, NYCB, OC, OCR, OSIS, PG, PLD, PX, RES, ROK, S, SO, SVU, TEL, TKR, TMO, TROW, TUP, USG, VLY, VMED, WAB, WHR, WLP, WM, WYN Comment! [Earnings]
Monday, April 22, 12:11 PM Homebuilders slip today on weaker than anticipated earnings out of NVR and a miss on Existing Home Sales numbers for March: [(XHB -0.6%, [HOV]] -1.6%, MTH -0.6%, RYL -1.3%, TOL -1.4%, TPH -0.4%, DHI -0.2%, KBH -0.2%, LEN -1.2%, SPF -1%. Home improvement superstore operators also feel the pinch: (HD -0.4% and (LOW -1.2%. 2 Comments [On the Move, U.S. Economy]
Friday, March 15, 4:38 PM Homebuilder stocks are moving away from trading on the macro news and beginning to trade more on company-specific fundamentals, according to Wells Fargo. While most homebuilder shares have outperformed the S&P 500 over the last twelve months, different patterns are starting to emerge. Performance within the sector is beginning to fragment. Over the last week for example, half of the builders the firm follows outperformed while half underperformed. Similarly over the last month, only 5 of the 12 outperformed. 7 Comments [U.S. Economy]
Thursday, March 14, 3:54 PM Not shying away from a hot sector, Sterne Agee calls for over-weighting the homebuilders (XHB) ahead of Q1 earnings. "We believe housing supply is not sufficient to meet demand," says Sterne simply, and inventory in key regions has fallen to levels where builders from the low to high end can all raise prices. Top individual picks: RYL, DHI, MTH. 2 Comments
Thursday, January 31, 8:18 AM Meritage Homes (MTH): Q4 EPS of $2.49. Revenue of $364.1M beats by $109.6M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News]
Thursday, October 25, 2012, 9:33 AM Meritage Homes (MTH): Q3 EPS of $0.19 misses by $0.14. Revenue of $342.6M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings]
Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 2:59 PM Everything to do with homebuilding moves up today on September's housing data surge: Hovanian (HOV +9.5%), KB Home (KBH +8.3%), Toll Bros. (TOL +2.5%), Ryland (RYL +4.4%), Standard Pacific (SPF +3.8%) and Meritage Homes (MTH +3.4%) all trade higher, as well as makers of fixtures like faucets and cabinets: Masco (MAS +1.4%), Fortune Brands Home & Security (FBHS +3%) and American Woodmark (AMWD +3%). 1 Comment [On the Move, U.S. Economy]
Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 6:25 PM Home builders (XHB +1.8%) ranked among today's top gainers on surging single-family housing starts and existing home sales rising at the highest pace since the first-time homebuyer tax credit artificially sparked sales in mid-2010. But hold the champagne; a Harvard analyst still sees single-family starts rising only to ~1M, "not even half-way back to where we should be in terms of long-term trends." Comment! [Consumer, U.S. Economy]
Thursday, July 26, 2012, 10:29 AM Meritage (MTH): Q2 EPS of $0.24 beats by $0.10. Revenue of $282.1M (+28.1% Y/Y) beats by $1.87M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings]
Friday, July 13, 2012, 4:04 PM MKM Partners makes a bullish call on homebuilders, upgrading KB Home (KBH +1.8%) and D.R. Horton (DHI +1.7%) along the way. The firm expects new home sales growth to accelerate heading into fall, which in turn will lift valuations. Positive comments made by KB following its FQ2 report, together with equity offerings from Meritage (MTH) and Beazer (BZH), are seen as reasons for optimism. (Hovnanian) 3 Comments [Quick Ideas]
Thursday, April 26, 2012, 10:54 AM Meritage Homes (MTH): Q1 EPS of -$0.15 misses by $0.09. Revenue of $204M (+15.1% Y/Y) in-line. (PR) Comment! [Earnings]
Friday, March 9, 2012, 8:28 AM Credit Suisse takes a shine to stocks sitting in the homebuilder sector, lifting up its rating up on five names. Analysts take Toll Brothers (TOL), Lennar (LEN), and D.R. Horton (DHI) up to Outperform from Neutral, while Ryland (RYL) and Meritage Homes (MTH) get boosted to Neutral from Underperform. If Credit Suisse's call is spot-on, it also bodes well for XHB. 1 Comment [Quick Ideas]