KB Home (KBH) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

KB Home (NYSE: KBH) is a homebuilding company that designs, constructs and sells residential properties in the United States. Its offerings primarily include single-family homes, with communities and floor plans intended for first-time buyers, move-up buyers and other owner-occupants. The company also provides homebuyers with opportunities to personalize selected features and finishes through its build-to-order approach.

The company operates in several major housing markets across the United States, including locations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Washington. In addition to home construction and sales, KB Home supports the homebuying process through affiliated or partnered mortgage, title and insurance services, where available.

KB Home was founded in 1957 by Donald Kaufman and Eli Broad under the name Kaufman and Broad. It expanded from its original operations in Detroit into a national homebuilding business and adopted the KB Home name in 2001. Jeffrey Mezger has served as the company's chairman and chief executive officer, leading its operations and strategic direction.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $47.02 to $48.91
• 50-Day Range: $47.08 to $59.05
• 52-Week Range: $44.03 to $67.57
• Volume: 4.24 million shs
• Average Volume: 1.42 million shs
• Market Capitalization: $2.90 billion
• P/E Ratio: 13.33
• Dividend Yield: 2.11%
• Price Target: $57.33
• Consensus Rating: Hold

KB Home Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

KB Home scored higher than 93% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 89th out of 473 stocks in the consumer discretionary sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 3.8 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Hold

Consensus Rating

KB Home has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.13, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 4 buy ratings, 9 hold ratings, and 2 sell ratings.

Upside Potential

KB Home has a consensus price target of $57.33, representing about 21.2% upside from its current price of $47.32.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

KB Home has been the subject of 10 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 3.8 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 29.45%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for KB Home are expected to grow by 29.45% in the coming year, from $3.26 to $4.22 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of KB Home is 13.33, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 44.72.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of KB Home is 13.33, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Consumer Discretionary sector average P/E ratio of about 44.17.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

KB Home has a PEG Ratio of 2.52. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

KB Home has a P/B Ratio of 0.79. P/B Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 1.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Bearish

Percentage of Shares Shorted

12.91% of the float of KB Home has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

KB Home has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 9.04.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in KB Home has recently increased by 1.19%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing.

Dividend

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Moderate

Dividend Yield

KB Home pays a meaningful dividend of 2.06%, higher than the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

KB Home has only been increasing its dividend for 2 years.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of KB Home is 34.84%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

Dividend Sustainability

Based on earnings estimates, KB Home will have a dividend payout ratio of 23.70% next year. This indicates that KB Home will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.

News and Social Media

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.05

News Sentiment

KB Home has a news sentiment score of 0.05. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.47 average news sentiment score of Consumer Discretionary companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 51 news articles for KB Home this week, compared to 9 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

Only 4 people have searched for KBH on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of -33% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

2 people have added KB Home to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 100% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.6 / 5
• Insider Trading: Selling Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, KB Home insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $1,520,120.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

4.69% of the stock of KB Home is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

96.09% of the stock of KB Home is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

Company Calendar

• Record date for 8/20 Dividend: 8/06/2026
• Ex-Dividend for 8/20 Dividend: 8/06/2026
• Dividend Payable: 8/20/2026
• Last Earnings: 9/22/2026
• Today: 9/23/2026
• Fiscal Year End: 11/30/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NYSE
• Sector: Consumer Discretionary
• Industry: Household Durables
• Sub-Industry: Homebuilding
• Current Symbol: NYSE:KBH
• CIK: 795266
• Web: www.kbhome.com
• Phone: (310) 231-4000
• Fax: 310-231-4222
• Employees: 2,118
• Year Founded: 1957

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for KB Home: $57.33
• High Price Target: $72.00
• Low Price Target: $49.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +21.2%
• Consensus Rating: Hold
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.13
• Research Coverage: 15 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): $2.87
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 13.33
• Forward P/E Ratio: 14.51
• P/E Growth: 2.52
• Net Income: $428.79 million
• Net Margins: 4.39%
• Pretax Margin: 6.36%
• Return on Equity: 6.54%
• Return on Assets: 3.75%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: N/A
• Current Ratio: 2.12
• Quick Ratio: 0.20

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $6.24 billion
• Price / Sales: 0.47
• Cash Flow: $7.43 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 6.37
• Book Value: $60.23 per share
• Price / Book: 0.79

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 61,310,000
• Free Float: 58,435,000
• Market Cap: $2.90 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 1.34