KB Home Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:KBH)

11 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for KB Home in the last twelve months. There are currently 7 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" KBH shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in KBH, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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11 analysts have issued 12-month target prices for KB Home's shares. Their KBH share price targets range from $42.50 to $68.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $53.35 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.9%.
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KB Home's stock was trading at $31.85 at the beginning of the year. Since then, KBH shares have increased by 74.3% and is now trading at $55.5250.
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KB Home saw a increase in short interest in October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totaling 7,120,000 shares, an increase of 10.2% from the October 15th total of 6,460,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,340,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 5.3 days. Currently, 9.3% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 10th 2024.
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KB Home (NYSE:KBH) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, September, 20th. The construction company reported $1.80 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.43 by $0.37. The construction company earned $1.59 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.47 billion. KB Home had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 17.56% and a net margin of 9.83%. KB Home's revenue was down 14.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $2.86 earnings per share.

KB Home declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 5th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, November 9th will be paid a dividend of $0.20 per share on Wednesday, November 22nd. This represents a $0.80 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.44%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, November 8th.
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KB Home (NYSE:KBH) pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.49%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 10.44%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, KBH will have a dividend payout ratio of 10.91% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of KB Home (NYSE:KBH) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P MidCap 400 Pure Value ETF (RFV), Invesco Building & Construction ETF (PKB), Invesco Dorsey Wright Consumer Cyclicals Momentum ETF (PEZ), Opus Small Cap Value Plus ETF (OSCV), Alpha Architect U.S. Quantitative Value ETF (QVAL), Invesco S&P MidCap Value with Momentum ETF (XMVM), iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF (ITB) and Global X Green Building ETF (GRNR).

KB Home declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock repurchase program on Wednesday, March 22nd 2023, which authorizes the company to repurchase $500,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to buy up to 15.2% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are typically a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

109 employees have rated KB Home Chief Executive Officer Jeff Mezger on Glassdoor.com. Jeff Mezger has an approval rating of 68% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other KB Home investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Micron Technology (MU), Bank of America (BAC), Alibaba Group (BABA), Intel (INTC), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Home Depot (HD), Walt Disney (DIS) and Netflix (NFLX).

KB Home's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (5.95%), AQR Capital Management LLC (3.19%), Rokos Capital Management LLP (0.00%), Invesco Ltd. (1.95%), American Century Companies Inc. (1.58%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.43%). Insiders that own company stock include Albert Z Praw, Brian J Woram, Jeff Kaminski, Jeffrey T Mezger, Melissa Lora, Thomas W Gilligan and William R Hollinger.
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