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

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

KB Home declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 3rd. Shareholders of record on Thursday, November 7th will be paid a dividend of $0.09 per share on Thursday, November 28th. This represents a $0.36 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.01%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 13th. View KB Home's Dividend History.

KB Home (NYSE:KBH) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, September, 25th. The construction company reported $0.73 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.66 by $0.07. The construction company had revenue of $1.16 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.18 billion. KB Home had a net margin of 5.58% and a return on equity of 11.18%. The business's revenue for the quarter was down 5.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.87 EPS. View KB Home's Earnings History.

KB Home is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 8th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for KB Home.

17 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price targets for KB Home's shares. Their forecasts range from $20.00 to $39.00. On average, they anticipate KB Home's stock price to reach $31.67 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 11.3%. View Analyst Price Targets for KB Home.

17 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 and 10 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for KB Home.

Media stories about KBH stock have been trending positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. KB Home earned a media sentiment score of 2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the construction company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for KB Home.

KB Home saw a increase in short interest in the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 4,280,000 shares, an increase of 8.9% from the August 30th total of 3,930,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,760,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.4 days. Currently, 5.0% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View KB Home's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to KB Home include PulteGroup (PHM), Toll Brothers (TOL), Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), Meritage Homes (MTH), M.D.C. (MDC), TRI Pointe Group (TPH), LGI Homes (LGIH), M/I Homes (MHO), Century Communities (CCS), William Lyon Homes (WLH), Green Brick Partners (GRBK), Beazer Homes USA (BZH), Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), New Home (NWHM) and Comstock Holding Companies (CHCI).

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), Intel (INTC), Bank of America (BAC), Netflix (NFLX), Starbucks (SBUX), Cisco Systems (CSCO), General Electric (GE) and Applied Materials (AMAT).

KB Home's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.04%), Pacer Advisors Inc. (0.04%), Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. (0.03%), Alpha Windward LLC (0.02%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%) and Cerebellum GP LLC (0.02%). 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 Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC, Pacer Advisors Inc., Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Alpha Windward LLC and Crossmark Global Holdings Inc.. Company insiders that have sold KB Home company stock in the last year include Albert Z Praw, Brian J Woram, 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 State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Cerebellum GP 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 $35.69.

KB Home has a market capitalization of $3.15 billion and generates $4.55 billion in revenue each year. The construction company earns $170.36 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.82 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]