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NVR, Inc.NVRCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Consumer Discretionary›Homebuilding

Homebuilder (Ryan Homes, NVHomes) using a land-light option model plus its own mortgage banking arm.

Momentum strong 64
Mkt cap
$16.8B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
95%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$301M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
18.6×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+18.1 pp
WACC 9.2%
Hurdle
-3 pp
Req g minus delivered
Official | Implied
BBB+ / BBB+
agencies · bond market
Next earnings
88 days
2 Feb 2027
Close · USD$6,298
1D-1.8%
1W+5.7%
1M+4.9%
3M+0.1%
6M+5.4%
YTD-13.6%
1Y-12.3%
ATR %3.6%
Beta0.47
52w lowhigh23.2% off high

What NVR does

Homebuilder (Ryan Homes, NVHomes) using a land-light option model plus its own mortgage banking arm.

Builds mostly against contracts buyers have already signed, so it carries little unsold inventory, and pays land developers deposits for the right to buy lots later instead of owning land. Ryan Homes supplies most of the volume, in the Mid-Atlantic and neighbouring regions; mortgage origination adds a fee stream.

Products and services

  • Single-family homes
  • Land option/purchase agreements
  • Mortgage banking (NVR Mortgage)

Customers

  • US homebuyers, mainly Mid-Atlantic/Northeast/Midwe

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Homebuilding
  • Land option/land-light development
  • Home sales & mortgage financing

What could go right

  • Housing demand/household formation growth
  • Low balance-sheet risk supporting buybacks

What could go wrong

  • Mortgage rate/affordability headwinds
  • Regional demand concentration

Moat: narrow (process know-how, cost advantage). Land-option (not land-ownership) model avoids land-market risk and frees capital versus land-heavy peers.

Headquarters: Reston, Virginia, US · Founded: 1980 · Employees: 6,300

Named competitors

NVR at a glance

Size NVR (NVR) is a United States Consumer Discretionary company (Homebuilding) with a market value of $16.8B, the 557th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $6,298 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 5.4%, against +12.3% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 6th lowest of 14 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue fell 10.4% over the last twelve months (peer median +5.9%); the operating margin is 12.6% (peer median 11.2%).

Valuation It trades at 18.6× forward earnings against a peer median of 14.3× (5th most expensive of 14).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 4% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +7%, so the hurdle is -3 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 18.1 points above its cost of capital (9.2% WACC).

Credit NVR has 1 bond outstanding ($900M), rated BBB+ by the agencies and trading like BBB+ at a weighted spread of 82 bp.

Short interest Short interest is 6.1% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 2 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10011011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 113NVR 107
Six months, rebased to 100: NVR against the median of its 13 peers (local-currency closes).

NVR financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$9.17B$10.1B$10.3B$9.30B$10.3B
Revenue growth—-2%+11%-10%—
Gross profit$1.86B$2.15B$2.45B$2.25B$2.69B
EBITDAn/a$1.47B$1.77B$1.58B$2.08B
Net income$1.05B$1.34B$1.68B$1.59B$1.73B
Free cash flown/a$1.10B$1.35B$1.47B$1.85B
Capital expendituren/a$24.5M$29.2M$24.9M$18.4M
Total debt$1.07B$1.05B$1.02B$1.01B$1.01B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

NVR competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

0%+20%+40%+10%+20%TOLLENPHMDHIFTDRBTRW3288PSNSKYCVCO19111808BKGNVR6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. NVR is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-10%0%+10%10×15×20×25×TOLLENPHMDHIFTDRBTRW3288PSNSKYCVCO19111808BKGNVRRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. NVR is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

-10%0%+10%-10%0%10%TOLLENPHMDHIFTDRBTRW3288SKYCVCO19111808BKGNVRGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. NVR is the large dot.

NVR competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (NVR vs DHI vs LEN vs PHM)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
NVR NVR$16.8B+5%-10%13%18.6×4.0%
D. R. Horton DHI$41.3B+3%-4%11%17.4×7.8%
Lennar LEN$21.1B0%-8%5%18.9×11.4%
PulteGroup PHM$24.4B+13%-9%15%14.3×4.7%

How NVR compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

NVR against its 13 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureNVRPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+4.9%+13.2%2nd lowest of 14
6-month return+5.4%+12.3%6th lowest of 14
Distance from 52-week high-23.2%-15.9%4th lowest of 14
Revenue growth (TTM)-10.4%+5.9%lowest of 14
Operating margin12.6%11.2%5th highest of 14
Forward P/E18.6×14.3×5th most expensive of 14
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)4.0%4.4%6th least demanding of 13
Growth delivered (Del g)+6.5%+9.3%4th lowest of 13
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)-2.5 pp-2.0 pp7th least demanding of 13
ROIC minus cost of capital+18.1 pp+1.5 pp2nd highest of 14
Bond spread82 bp88 bptightest of 6

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
NVR NVRUnited States$16.8B+5%-10%13%18.6×4.0%+6.5%
Toll Brothers TOLUnited States$14.1B+11%-1%14%11.5×4.1%+9.2%
Lennar LENUnited States$21.1B0%-8%5%18.9×11.4%+8.7%
PulteGroup PHMUnited States$24.4B+13%-9%15%14.3×4.7%+9.4%
D. R. Horton DHIUnited States$41.3B+3%-4%11%17.4×7.8%+3.5%
Frontdoor FTDRUnited States$6.69B+50%+9%20%19.0×12.2%+7.3%
Barratt Redrow BTRW.LUnited Kingdom$6.07B+32%+9%9%14.5×3.3%+4.7%
Open House 3288.TJapan$5.66B-15%+6%12%7.3×-8.1%+18.2%
Persimmon PSN.LUnited Kingdom$5.64B+22%+17%11%13.0×n/an/a
Champion Homes SKYUnited States$4.96B+25%+3%8%24.2×10.8%+13.4%
Cavco Industries CVCOUnited States$4.87B+32%+12%10%24.2×15.2%+15.2%
Sumitomo Forestry 1911.TJapan$4.87B-10%+14%6%12.5×2.8%+15.2%
Haseko 1808.TJapan$4.50B-1%+10%8%9.9×-11.6%+9.5%
Berkeley BKG.LUnited Kingdom$4.44B+12%-4%19%13.0×1.2%+1.6%

NVR bonds and credit

NVR has 1 bond outstanding with $900M face value. The agencies rate it BBB+; its bonds trade like BBB+. Weighted yield 5.38%, a spread of 82 bp over government bonds.

Every bond, yield and spread in the cockpit →

Questions

Who are NVR's main competitors?
Named competitors: D.R. Horton (DHI), Lennar (LEN), PulteGroup (PHM). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Toll Brothers (TOL), Lennar (LEN), PulteGroup (PHM), D. R. Horton (DHI), Frontdoor (FTDR), Barratt Redrow (BTRW.L).
Is NVR expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 18.6× against a peer median of 14.3×, 5th most expensive of 14 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 4% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +7%, so the hurdle is -3 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.
How has NVR stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +5.4% against +12.3% for the median peer; over one year -12.3%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.