This company is well positioned to capitalize on the growing population of older Americans whose children have moved out and are in search of more efficient and cost-effective homes. Like the business model adopted by NVR, Toll also takes advantage of efficiencies in its value chain by developing its properties on land that the company has either acquired and/or developed. For the 5-year period ended October 31, 2004, Toll had completed 24,271 homes in 456 communities, including 6,627 homes from 273 communities during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004 (Toll 2).

Toll also operates its own land development, architectural, engineering, mortgage, title, security monitoring, landscape, cable television, broadband Internet access, lumber distribution, house...

While Toll's stock performance cannot compare with the meteoric rise enjoyed by NVR, the company did manage to turn in a respectable stock performance for the past five years to date, as can be seen in Figure 2 below.
Figure 2. Toll Stock Performance - Past Five Years to Date vs. S&P 500 (Source: Yahoo! Finance 2005).

Works Cited

NVR, Inc. (2005). Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved February 18, 2005 at http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TOL.

Toll, Inc. (2005). Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved February 18, 2005 at http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=TOL.