Meritage Homes (MTH) and The Competition Head-To-Head Comparison

Meritage Homes (NYSE: MTH) is one of 79 publicly-traded companies in the “CONSTRUCT/BLDG SERV” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare Meritage Homes to similar companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, earnings,
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Over 5.4 million beneficiaries who collect their social grants at ATMs and shops using their South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) cards will for the next three months incur a R10 “banking fee”. This was revealed by the agency's Dianne Dunkerley in Parliament on Wednesday. She also assured
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Signs of pain on the U.K. high street grew in the first quarter, according to a report by the Bank of England's network of agents. Weak consumer spending means there is now “some evidence of financial distress in retail and leisure,” the central bank warned on Wednesday, citing a summary by its agents
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Kenyans have a long list of mobile lending services to choose from. FILE PHOTO | NMG. Facebook · Twitter · LinkedIn · Google · Whatsapp · Messenger. The numbers are in and the jury is out. The world over the fintech craze that underpins lending outside the traditional banking ecosystem continues
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Haute Residence invites you to an informative day of luxury real estate and development as they host the 5th Annual Haute Residence Luxury Real Estate Summit. The event will invite the biggest developers, brokers and visionaries from New York and Miami to join forces at New York City's CORE: Club
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MONCTON, N.B. — Two New Brunswick real estate agents have had their licences revoked after taking what the regulator calls “outrageous and egregious advantage” of a vulnerable senior. The provincial real estate industry regulator says Tanya Hannah and Maurice Poirier, owners of Century 21
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Challenger bank Judo Capital has launched in Australia this week, with the ambition of servicing Australia's underbanked SME sector. In an industry long dominated by the big four banks – ANZ, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, National Australia Bank and Westpac – the new bank has a view to
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A Tinley Park woman won a car and more than $30,000 in cash and prizes during an appearance Tuesday on “Wheel of Fortune.” Donna Martin, a retail merchandiser for a greeting card company, also made it to the game show's final puzzle, but she wasn't able to solve it. Mason, who also has worked
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The long-planned Uniform Mortgage-Backed Security (UMBS), designed to replace the current to be announced- (TBA) eligible MBS issued separately by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) will become a reality on June 3, 2019. While still more than a year away, the Federal Housing Finance
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LAS VEGAS — Chatter about the Military Lending Act buzzed at both the American Financial Services Association Vehicle Finance Conference and the NADA Show here last week. What's next for the U.S. Defense Department's latest, befuddling interpretation of the act that could put auto lenders and
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The latest sign that it may not live up to its hype is coming from a corner of the financial market that stock investors rarely think about — short-term loans. The three-month lending rate, which is still priced, at least for now, off Libor, has been rising rapidly. The rate, which spent much of the past decade
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The transparency level of a company of that size, the governance level—they need to think about that a lot. This is not a startup anymore, this is a huge international global conglomerate. How they manage investors and how they manage the governance is really questionable. What specifically do they
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I've seen a spate of stories lately about the toll that activism has been taking on the leaders of the Movement for Black Lives and others. For the newcomers, the people who started after the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Alton Sterling and others, the impact on their lives — spirit, health,
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BUSINESS WIRE)–Waypoint Residential, a vertically integrated real estate investment management firm that focuses on the U.S. rental housing sector, today announced that it has acquired The Lofts at College Hill, a 194-bed purpose-built student housing property serving Mercer University in Macon,
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Probably like many of you, I see articles here and there about banks not being particularly innovative. The premise is that banking business models were largely formed in an industrial era but that the American economy and indeed, most of the world's economy, is now in the digital era. There was an
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PAOLA — Great Southern Bank announced last week that the banking center located at 1 S. Pearl St. on the northeast corner of Paola's Park Square soon will close and be consolidated with the Great Southern Bank located less than a mile away at 1515 Baptiste Drive. A letter was sent to Great
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Whether it be in related to acquisitions, development projects, financing deals, leasing, asset management or property management, CRE firms need quick and easy access to their information, which historically has had a tendency to get lost in stacks of printed paper and outdated hard drives, or deleted
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Netflix's board now includes Susan Rice, the former United Nations ambassador and National Security Advisor under President Barack Obama. The appointment, announced on Wednesday, Netflix, gives the video streaming giant a high-profile former government official at a time of increased regulatory
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She is challenging incumbent Andrew Cuomo for the Democratic nomination for governor. Cuomo is fighting for $550 million in state funding for the New York City Housing Authority. He said Wednesday he won't sign the state budget unless it includes “real and immediate remedies” for the authority's
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That's because a high score tells lenders that you have a proven track record of being responsible with your money. “It means we're more likely to want to give you a loan, because we know you're going to pay us back,” Brian Hoovler, branch operations assistant manager at Bay Equity Home Loans, tells
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