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

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

KB Home declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, January 23rd. Shareholders of record on Thursday, February 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.09 per share on Thursday, February 20th. This represents a $0.36 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.90%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, February 5th. View KB Home's Dividend History.

KB Home (NYSE:KBH) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January, 9th. The construction company reported $1.31 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.29 by $0.02. The construction company earned $1.56 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.60 billion. KB Home had a net margin of 5.90% and a return on equity of 11.99%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 15.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.96 EPS. View KB Home's Earnings History.

KB Home is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, March 24th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for KB Home.

16 brokerages have issued twelve-month price targets for KB Home's stock. Their forecasts range from $20.00 to $40.00. On average, they expect KB Home's share price to reach $33.53 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 16.1%. 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, 6 hold ratings, 8 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for KB Home.

News headlines about KBH stock have been trending neutral on Wednesday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm identifies negative and positive media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. KB Home earned a news sentiment score of 0.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories 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 stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for KB Home.

KB Home saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,640,000 shares, an increase of 10.6% from the January 15th total of 3,290,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,550,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.3 days. Currently, 4.2% of the shares of the company are sold short. View KB Home's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to KB Home include D. R. Horton (DHI), Lennar (LEN), NVR (NVR), PulteGroup (PHM), Toll Brothers (TOL), M.D.C. (MDC), Meritage Homes (MTH), TRI Pointe Group (TPH), Cavco Industries (CVCO), M/I Homes (MHO), Beazer Homes USA (BZH) and Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV).

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), Applied Materials (AMAT), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Home Depot (HD).

KB Home's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (3.07%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (2.74%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (2.58%), Capital World Investors (2.36%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.05%) and AQR Capital Management LLC (1.92%). Company insiders that own KB Home stock include Albert Z Praw, Brian J Woram, Jeff Kaminski, Jeffrey T Mezger, Melissa Lora 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 Capital World Investors, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Panagora Asset Management Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Marshall Wace North America L.P., AQR Capital Management LLC, Marshall Wace LLP and Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc.. Company insiders that have sold KB Home company stock in the last year include Albert Z Praw, Brian J Woram, Jeff Kaminski, 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 Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Hennessy Advisors Inc., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Man Group plc, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Cipher Capital LP, LSV Asset Management and Moody Aldrich Partners 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 $39.94.

KB Home has a market capitalization of $3.58 billion and generates $4.55 billion in revenue each year. The construction company earns $268.77 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.85 on an earnings per share basis. KB Home employs 2,140 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]