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 declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, January 23rd. Shareholders of record on Thursday, February 6th will be given a dividend of $0.09 per share on Thursday, February 20th. This represents a $0.36 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.94%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, February 5th. View KB Home's Dividend History.

KB Home (NYSE:KBH) issued its quarterly earnings results 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 net margin of 5.90% and a return on equity of 11.99%. The company's revenue was up 15.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $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 analysts have issued 12 month price targets for KB Home's shares. Their forecasts range from $20.00 to $40.00. On average, they anticipate KB Home's stock price to reach $33.53 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 12.0%. 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.

News stories about KBH stock have trended somewhat negative on Monday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news 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 media sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the construction company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact 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 15th, there was short interest totalling 3,290,000 shares, an increase of 11.1% from the December 31st total of 2,960,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,570,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.1 days. Currently, 3.8% of the shares of the company are sold short. 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), Bank of America (BAC), Alibaba Group (BABA), Intel (INTC), Netflix (NFLX), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Applied Materials (AMAT), Cisco Systems (CSCO) and Home Depot (HD).

KB Home's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Braun Stacey Associates Inc. (0.45%), Hennessy Advisors Inc. (0.37%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.18%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.14%), Arizona State Retirement System (0.05%) and Strs Ohio (0.04%). Company insiders that own KB Home stock include Albert Z Praw, Brian J Woram, Jeff Kaminski, Jeffrey T Mezger, Melissa Lora, Thomas F Norton 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 Braun Stacey Associates Inc., Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Arizona State Retirement System, New York State Teachers Retirement System, Alpha Windward LLC and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Hennessy Advisors Inc., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Strs Ohio, Zeke Capital Advisors LLC, IFP Advisors Inc and State of Michigan Retirement System. 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 $38.12.

KB Home has a market capitalization of $3.37 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 2,005 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]