KB Home - KBH Stock Forecast, Price & News

13 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for KB Home in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street 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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13 brokers have issued 12-month price objectives for KB Home's shares. Their KBH share price forecasts range from $28.00 to $46.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $37.46 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 5.6%.
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KB Home's stock was trading at $31.85 at the beginning of the year. Since then, KBH stock has increased by 24.6% and is now trading at $39.69.
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KB Home saw a decrease in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 5,370,000 shares, a decrease of 10.1% from the December 31st total of 5,970,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,340,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.0 days. Currently, 6.6% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, March 22nd 2023.
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KB Home (NYSE:KBH) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, January, 11th. The construction company reported $2.47 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $2.85 by $0.38. The construction company earned $1.94 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.99 billion. KB Home had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 24.06% and a net margin of 11.83%.

KB Home declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, January 19th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, February 2nd will be paid a dividend of $0.15 per share on Thursday, February 16th. This represents a $0.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.51%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, February 1st.
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KB Home (NYSE:KBH) pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.51%. The dividend payout ratio is 6.58%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, KBH will have a dividend payout ratio of 11.95% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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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.

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

KB Home's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Fisher Asset Management LLC (3.37%), Boston Common Asset Management LLC (0.65%), Handelsinvest Investeringsforvaltning (0.25%), tru Independence LLC (0.21%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.17%) and Knights of Columbus Asset Advisors LLC (0.15%). Insiders that own company stock include Albert Z Praw, Brian J Woram, Jeff Kaminski, Jeffrey T Mezger, Matthew W Mandino, Melissa Lora, Thomas W Gilligan and William R Hollinger.
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Shares of KBH stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of KBH stock can currently be purchased for approximately $39.69.

KB Home (NYSE:KBH) has a market capitalization of $3.33 billion and generates $6.90 billion in revenue each year. The construction company earns $816.67 million in net income (profit) each year or $9.12 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 2,244 workers across the globe.

KB Home's mailing address is 10990 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles CA, 90024. The official website for the company is www.kbhome.com. The construction company can be reached via phone at (310) 231-4000, via email at investorrelations@kbhome.com, or via fax at 310-231-4222.