Is the price fair?
What MTH's price assumes
Meritage Homes Corporation trades at 15.1× earnings against 14.2× for the median Residential Construction name, more expensive than its own group.
15.1
Trailing P/E · Residential Construction median 14.2 · 1.06× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Free cash flow yield
- 8.2%
Free cash flow yield · Residential Construction median 6.0%
- Growth the price implies
- −0.94%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −0.94% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −24% a year over the last three.
- Price / book
- 0.82
Price / book · as of 2026-Q1
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 0.82
- Consumer Cyclical median P/E263 names
- 22.0
- Residential Construction median P/E14 names
- 14.2
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $415M
- Market capitalisation
- $5.06B
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −24%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| What its own history would imply | not meaningful, 12.1× today against a 5.68× median |
| 52-week range | $58.37 – $83.34 |
| Today | $72.28 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Residential Construction
Ranks #11 of 14 by Smart Score