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 announced 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 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.31%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, July 31st. This is an increase from KB Home's previous quarterly dividend of $0.03. View KB Home's Dividend History.

KB Home (NYSE:KBH) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, June, 26th. The construction company reported $0.51 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.39 by $0.12. The construction company earned $1.02 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $933.49 million. KB Home had a return on equity of 12.43% and a net margin of 5.94%. KB Home's revenue for the quarter was down 7.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $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 equities research analysts have issued 12-month target prices for KB Home's shares. Their forecasts range from $20.00 to $35.00. On average, they anticipate KB Home's share price to reach $26.8038 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.3%. 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 articles about KBH stock have trended somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. KB Home earned a media sentiment score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the construction company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. 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 trading volume, of 1,590,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.4 days. Currently, 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 a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors 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 acquired 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 $27.44.

KB Home has a market capitalization of $2.42 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]