NYSE:KBH - KB Home Stock Price, Forecast & News

KB Home trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "KBH."

KB Home announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, January 23rd. Stockholders of record on Thursday, February 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.09 per share on Thursday, February 20th. This represents a $0.36 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.90%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, February 5th. View KB Home's Dividend History.

KB Home (NYSE:KBH) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January, 9th. The construction company reported $1.31 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.29 by $0.02. The construction company earned $1.56 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.60 billion. KB Home had a return on equity of 11.99% and a net margin of 5.90%. KB Home's revenue was up 15.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.96 earnings per share. View KB Home's Earnings History.

KB Home is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, March 24th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for KB Home.

16 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for KB Home's stock. Their forecasts range from $20.00 to $40.00. On average, they expect KB Home's stock price to reach $33.53 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 16.1%. View Analyst Price Targets for KB Home.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for KB Home in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 6 hold ratings, 8 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for KB Home.

Media coverage about KBH stock has trended extremely negative on Thursday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. KB Home earned a news impact score of -4.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the construction company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for KB Home.

KB Home saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,640,000 shares, an increase of 10.6% from the January 15th total of 3,290,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,550,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.3 days. Currently, 4.2% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View KB Home's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to KB Home include D. R. Horton (DHI), Lennar (LEN), NVR (NVR), PulteGroup (PHM), Toll Brothers (TOL), M.D.C. (MDC), Meritage Homes (MTH), TRI Pointe Group (TPH), Cavco Industries (CVCO), M/I Homes (MHO), Beazer Homes USA (BZH) and Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other KB Home investors own include Micron Technology (MU), NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Bank of America (BAC), Intel (INTC), Netflix (NFLX), Applied Materials (AMAT), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Home Depot (HD).

KB Home's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (3.07%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (2.74%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (2.58%), Capital World Investors (2.36%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.05%) and AQR Capital Management LLC (1.92%). Company insiders that own KB Home stock include Albert Z Praw, Brian J Woram, Jeff Kaminski, Jeffrey T Mezger, Melissa Lora and William R Hollinger. View Institutional Ownership Trends for KB Home.

KBH stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Capital World Investors, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Panagora Asset Management Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Marshall Wace North America L.P., AQR Capital Management LLC, Marshall Wace LLP and Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc.. Company insiders that have sold KB Home company stock in the last year include Albert Z Praw, Brian J Woram, Jeff Kaminski, Jeffrey T Mezger, Melissa Lora and William R Hollinger. View Insider Buying and Selling for KB Home.

KBH stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Hennessy Advisors Inc., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Man Group plc, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Cipher Capital LP, LSV Asset Management and Moody Aldrich Partners LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for KB Home.

Shares of KBH can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of KBH stock can currently be purchased for approximately $39.94.

KB Home has a market capitalization of $3.58 billion and generates $4.55 billion in revenue each year. The construction company earns $268.77 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.85 on an earnings per share basis. KB Home employs 2,140 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About KB Home.

The official website for KB Home is http://www.kbhome.com/.

KB Home's mailing address is 10990 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles CA, 90024. The construction company can be reached via phone at 310-231-4000 or via email at [email protected]