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

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

KB Home declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, July 15th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, August 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.09 per share on Thursday, August 15th. This represents a $0.36 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.31%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, July 31st. This is a boost from KB Home's previous quarterly dividend of $0.03. View KB Home's Dividend History.

KB Home (NYSE:KBH) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, June, 26th. The construction company reported $0.51 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.39 by $0.12. The construction company had revenue of $1.02 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $933.49 million. KB Home had a return on equity of 12.43% and a net margin of 5.94%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 7.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.57 EPS. View KB Home's Earnings History.

KB Home is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, September 24th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for KB Home.

16 analysts have issued 1-year target prices for KB Home's stock. Their forecasts range from $20.00 to $35.00. On average, they anticipate KB Home's stock price to reach $26.8038 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.6%. 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, 8 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for KB Home.

News headlines about KBH stock have trended negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. KB Home earned a news sentiment score of -2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the construction company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media 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 drop in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,894,700 shares, a drop of 6.2% from the June 30th total of 4,152,600 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,590,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.4 days. Approximately 4.6% 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), Meritage Homes (MTH), Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), 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), New Home (NWHM), Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV) 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), Bank of America (BAC), Intel (INTC), Netflix (NFLX), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Applied Materials (AMAT), Cisco Systems (CSCO) and Caterpillar (CAT).

KB Home's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (11.94%), Vanguard Group Inc. (9.35%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (3.46%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (3.45%), Balyasny Asset Management LLC (3.27%) and Renaissance Technologies LLC (3.26%). 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 AQR Capital Management LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Investec Asset Management LTD, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Foundry Partners LLC, South Street Advisors LLC and Charles Schwab Investment Management 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 Balyasny Asset Management LLC, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Invesco Ltd., Northern Trust Corp, Vanguard Group Inc., Braun Stacey Associates Inc., Cubist Systematic Strategies LLC and Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of KBH stock can currently be purchased for approximately $27.52.

KB Home has a market capitalization of $2.43 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]