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. Stockholders of record on Thursday, November 7th will be given 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 1.06%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 13th. View KB Home's Dividend History.

KB Home (NYSE:KBH) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, September, 25th. The construction company reported $0.73 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate 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 return on equity of 11.18% and a net margin of 5.58%. KB Home's revenue for the quarter was down 5.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business 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 brokers have issued 1 year 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 year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 6.6%. 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 headlines about KBH stock have trended negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. KB Home earned a news impact score of -2.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the construction company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for KB Home.

KB Home saw a increase in short interest during 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 trading volume of 1,760,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.4 days. Currently, 5.0% 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 PulteGroup (PHM), Toll Brothers (TOL), Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), M.D.C. (MDC), Meritage Homes (MTH), 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 variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include 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 Pacer Advisors Inc., 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 acquired 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 $33.92.

KB Home has a market capitalization of $3.00 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]