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Better Home & Finance Holding Company Class A Common Stock (BETR) fair value

Financial Services · Mortgage Finance · NASDAQ · United States
$16.72+0.84%
Market cap $315MNext earnings 2026-11-12Updated Oct 22, 2026
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Our verdict
Trades 12% below our fair value
Price
$16.72
Model fair valueConfidence: low
about $18.96
Built from weaker models, sales multiples or analyst targets, so treat it as a rough guide.
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Treated as a bank. None of the usual models had enough data, so this uses Analyst consensus, Net asset value, and Sales comps instead.
ACCE opinionBetter Home & Finance Holding Company Class A Common Stock (BETR)
Fair value
Not available
ACCE price target
$12.50
Rating
Not rated
Horizon
12 months
ACCE price target published on 22 Oct 2026, 01:52 CEST; previously $9.50 since 21 Oct 2026, 01:52 CEST.
Price used: $16.72 at the close on 23 Oct 2026, 22:00 CEST.
Models: Analyst consensus, Net asset value, and Sales comps.
Fair value: the average of the applicable valuation models (discounted cash flow, multiples, residual income, dividend discount, shareholder yield), each run on the latest financial statements and the market price shown. Opinion columns (fair value, target, rating) are shown apart from the data. Full methodology: acceinvestments.com/data/how-we-value-stocks
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Data
ACCE score
27
out of 100
Analysts
88% buy
8 covering
P/E
0.0x
forward 51.8x
1-year return
-80.6%
Dividend yield
0.00%

Better Home & Finance Holding Company Class A Common Stock in four questions

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Overview

ACCE thesis

Better Home & Finance runs an online mortgage platform that originates home loans and sells most of them into the secondary market, with its Better Mortgage app and related title and settlement services as the front end. Its edge is a digital-first origination model that has tried to cut the cost and delay of closing a loan, but that edge has not yet shown up in profits. Revenue grew 28.2% over the period, which is the clearest sign of demand, yet the operating margin sits at -56.9% and return on equity at -250.4%, so the business is still spending well ahead of what it earns. The stock trades on a forward P/E of 51.8 with no trailing earnings to anchor it, and the 205M USD market cap is small for a company that is not yet profitable. Its composite score of 30/100 and lack of index membership point to a name that needs proof of operating leverage before it earns a closer look, and the next quarters of margin progression in a rate environment that drives mortgage volumes are what would justify that work.

AI-assisted·How I use AIWritten Oct 18, 2026
⚠ Investor warnings · 3 flagsAI-assisted·How I use AI
  • severe
    Severe cash burn
    Free cash flow is $-233.3M against a $228M market cap, with Debt/Equity at 16.55 and net margin at -93.2%. Funding depends on capital markets access.
  • high
    Heavy short interest
    Short interest is 54.7% of float, alongside 34.4% insider ownership, leaving a thin tradable float with high squeeze and gap risk.
  • high
    Score collapse over 90 days
    The ACCE score fell from 47 to 30 over 90 days, with Value at 23 and Quality at 29. Fundamentals have deteriorated in that window.

AI research notes

AI-assisted·How I use AIWritten Oct 21, 2026 · figures from 2026-06-30 · prices to Oct 23, 2026
Why it could do well
  • Analysts remain constructive, with 88% (7 of 8) rating the stock Buy or Strong Buy.
  • Revenue grew 28.2% year over year, showing the business is still expanding its top line.
Why it could disappoint
  • Free cash flow over the last 12 months was negative at -$233M, a serious cash drain for the company.
  • Debt to equity of 16.55 leaves the balance sheet heavily leveraged, raising refinancing and dilution risk.
  • The latest earnings per share missed expectations, coming in at -1.74 against -1.41 expected.
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Nov 12, 2026
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Valuation

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Price
$16.72
Model fair valueConfidence: low
about $18.96
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Wall Street consensus

Bullish88% buy · 8 covering analysts
● Strong buy 6● Buy 1● Hold 1● Sell 0● Strong sell 0
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News and Record

Press releases mentioning this company

Recent performance

1 week
+68.0%
1 month
+37.5%
3 months
-23.3%
6 months
-60.7%
YTD
-48.7%
1 year
-80.6%

SEC filings

Recommendation history, last 12 months

DateTypeNewPreviousPrice
22 Oct 2026, 01:52 CESTACCE price target$12.50$9.50$15.58
21 Oct 2026, 01:52 CESTACCE price target$9.50$8.50$11.97
15 Oct 2026, 00:00 CESTACCE price target$8.50first publication$8.97

This analysis is not personalised investment advice and does not take your situation, objectives or risk tolerance into account. ACCE Investments is not an authorised investment firm.

Investing in shares carries a risk of losing capital. The value of an investment can go down as well as up.

Valuation horizon: 12 months from the publication date.

Conflicts of interest. ACCE Investments is operated by Adrien Chantreuil, who may hold personal positions in the securities analysed. Positions are declared on each security. ACCE receives no payment from the companies analysed or from any intermediary for this analysis.

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Snapshot

Growth52Value11Quality29Momentum17Total27
Valuation
Trailing P/E
0.0x
Forward P/E
51.8x
PEG
no data
P/B
3.99x
EV / Revenue
3.3x
Book value/sh
$3.05
Enterprise value
$786M
Profitability
ROE
-250.4%
FCF yield
-74.03%
ROIC
-20.8%
Health and risk
Debt / equity
16.55
Dividend yield
0.00%
Beta
1.75

Price

-79.0% · 1Y

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Answered from Better Home & Finance Holding Company Class A Common Stock fundamentals + recent valuations. Every number shows its source and date.

This stock Peer Peer median weaker → stronger
P/Ebetter than 100% of peers
low 0.0x0.0xhigh 28.9x
ROEbetter than 0% of peers
low -250%-250%high 24%
Div yieldbetter than 67% of peers
low 0.0%0.0%high 7.8%

Peers

Prices Oct 23, 2026
CompanyPriceFair valuevs fair valueP/EROEQualityScore
BETR Better Home & Finance Holding Company Class A Common Stock$16.72----250.4%2927
HBLN.SW Hypothekarbank Lenzburg AGCHF 4160.00CHF 544624% below14.0x3.6%5954
LDI loanDepot Inc. Class A Common Stock$0.61----26.7%2924
PBB.DE Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG€2.83----0.9%3826
ONIT Onity Group Inc. Common Stock$25.70--1.7x23.8%7451
VEL Velocity Financial Inc. Common Stock$15.30$3151% below5.6x16.3%7247
WD Walker & Dunlop Inc Common Stock$34.16$4829% below28.9x2.4%4533

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Where BETR ranks against its sector peers on each metric.

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  • Business Wire•Oct 14, 2026
    Better Home & Finance Holding Company Announces Preliminary Third Quarter 2026 Results
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    Better Reports Preliminary Q3 Results; Tinman AI Platform Volume of $790MM Rises 64% Over Prior Year
  • Business Wire•Oct 8, 2026
    Better Home & Finance Announces $30 Million Share Repurchase Program in Conjunction with Ramp in Cost Optimization and Sale of UK Bank initiatives
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40 filings
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