Meritage Homes Corporation: gross profit

At a glance

Meritage Homes reported gross profit of $566.5 million for the year ending 2017-12-31, up 6.6% from $531.2 million a year earlier. From 2009 to 2017 it grew at a compound 85.4% a year, from $4.05 million to $566.5 million. Across the last five reported years it ranged from $396.4 million (2013-12-31) to $566.5 million (2017-12-31).

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What this measure means

Revenue less the costs directly attributed to the goods or services sold. It precedes other operating expenses and is not net income.

Exact concept: us-gaap:GrossProfit. Each value covers an annual-duration reporting interval, shown with both start and end dates. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.

Coverage of this history

Selected reporting periods run from 2009-01-01 to 2017-12-31. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-19.

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Entity

Meritage Homes Corporation / CIK 0000833079

Captured

2026-09-19 15:08 UTC

SEC response SHA-256

3664cf19855caad952398ad4e3ef5298cf91fef685546e1860a7e607320b8e70

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import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0000833079.json") as response:
    record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
    print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))