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Meritage Homes CORP

MTH

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Signs● 3 gooddetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY25FY24FY23FY22FY21FY20
Revenue——————
Operating income——————
Net income$453.0M$786.2M$738.7M$992.2M$737.4M$423.5M
Total assets$7.62B$7.16B$6.35B$5.77B$4.81B$3.86B
Total liabilities$2.43B$2.02B$1.74B$1.82B$1.76B$1.52B
Equity$5.20B$5.14B$4.61B$3.95B$3.04B$2.35B
EPS (diluted)$6.35$10.72$9.96$13.37$19.29$11.00
Shares out.71.8M36.2M36.6M36.9M37.5M38.1M

Reported figures from the company's SEC filings (XBRL). Blank where a line item isn't cleanly tagged — never estimated.

Key ratios

from filings · FY2025
Operating margin
—
Net margin
—
Return on equity
8.7%
Return on assets
5.9%
Return on capital (ROCE)
—
Liabilities / assets
31.8%
Debt / equity
0.47×
Book value / share
$72.40
Revenue growth (YoY)
—
Net income growth (YoY)
−42.4%

Computed from the company's own SEC figures — no market price, so these are facts, not a valuation. Book value per share is reported equity ÷ shares; it is not the stock price.

Financial health

forensic scores · FY2025
Accruals / assets
4.4%clean
Piotroski F-Score
2/6weak

Altman Z″is a textbook bankruptcy-distress score from book values only (>2.6 safe · 1.1–2.6 grey · <1.1 distress). Accruals = (net income − operating cash flow) ÷ assets; persistently high accruals are an earnings-quality red flag. Beneish M-Scoreis an eight-ratio screen comparing this year with last (M > −1.78 = elevated manipulation-risk screen, not proof). Piotroski F-Scorecounts how many of nine fundamental-health checks pass (shown as passed / applicable; we use operating margin and total liabilities as documented proxies where the exact input isn't XBRL-tagged). Computed from SEC filings — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Quality score

EDS Score
60
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 0Catalyst 33Earnings quality 67Financial strength 100

Our own multi-factor score from free SEC data — profitability, growth, financial strength, earnings quality, and event/ownership catalysts. No market price and no licensed model: each axis is the share of source-backed checks it passes. Descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast. What these scores mean →

Signs

● 3 good
  • Conservative leverage (liabilities < 50% of assets)
  • Positive operating cash flow
  • Clean earnings (low accruals)

Derived from the company's own SEC figures (fundamentals, forensic scores, filing discipline) — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Short interest

FINRA · bi-monthly
SettlementShares shortDays to coverΔ vs prior
May 15, 20263.2M3.7-12.8%
Apr 30, 20263.6M3.4+11.2%
Apr 15, 20263.3M4.0+1.7%
Mar 31, 20263.2M2.7-10.2%
Mar 13, 20263.6M3.9+7.1%

Shares sold short as reported to FINRA. Days-to-cover = short shares ÷ average daily volume — higher means more potential squeeze pressure.

Material events

SEC Form 8-K · most recent

Events the company reported on Form 8-K, labelled by the SEC item code it filed under — its own classification, not our interpretation.

Recent SEC filings

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