Meritage Homes Corporation

MTH Consumer Cyclical Residential Construction

Meritage Homes Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $5.9 billion, down 8.40% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue fell 13.8%, EPS fell 33.0%, free cash flow grew 2,517.0% and total debt rose 1.07%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for three consecutive years.

64.47 0.02 −0.03%
Market cap
$4.2B
P/E
13.4×
Fwd P/E
14.9×
Dividend yield
2.90%
F-score
4/9
Altman Z
3.21
Beneish M
−1.98
Dividend safety
49/100

Meritage Homes Corporation (MTH) Piotroski F-score

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Meritage Homes Corporation's Piotroski F-score for fiscal 2025 is 4 out of 9: 4 of nine tests of profitability, leverage and efficiency passed, up from 3 in fiscal 2024.

Piotroski F-score, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Piotroski F-score Change (points)
FY2025 4 1.00
FY2024 3 (2.00)
FY2023 5 (3.00)
FY2022 8 3.00
FY2021 5 (4.00)
FY2020 9 1.00
FY2019 8 (1.00)
FY2018 9 6.00
FY2017 3 (1.00)
FY2016 4 —

How fiscal 2025’s score is made up

Test This year Year before Result Points
Positive return on assets 6.13% 11.63% Pass 1
Positive operating cash flow 118.29m (227.58m) Pass 1
Rising return on assets 6.13% 11.63% Fail 0
Cash flow above net income (334.72m) (1.01b) Fail 0
Falling long-term leverage 0.25 0.20 Fail 0
Rising current ratio 2.10 1.61 Pass 1
No new shares issued 70,819,000 72,476,000 Pass 1
Rising gross margin 19.99% 25.25% Fail 0
Rising asset turnover 0.79 0.95 Fail 0
Piotroski F-score Mixed 4

How the Piotroski F-score works

One point for each of nine tests, this fiscal year against the one before: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, cash flow above net income, falling long-term leverage, a rising current ratio, no new shares issued, a rising gross margin and rising asset turnover. The ratios are the ones on this site, so each can be checked.

Joseph Piotroski (2000) called 8–9 high and 0–1 low; reading it in three bands is the common convention:

7–9Strong — most fundamentals improved
4–6Mixed
0–3Weak — most fundamentals deteriorated

Where this differs from the paper: return on assets is on average rather than beginning-of-year assets, and weighted basic shares stand in for shares issued. The score is shown only when all nine tests can be worked out, which takes three fiscal years; banks and insurers, which report no current assets or gross profit, have none.

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What Piotroski F-score is

The Piotroski F-Score tells an investor how many signs of improving profitability, funding and efficiency a company shows against a year earlier.

One point for each of nine tests against a year earlier: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, cash flow above net income, falling long-term leverage, rising current ratio, no new shares issued, rising gross margin, and rising asset turnover

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