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$65.95 -1.43 (-2.12%)
Closing price 09/12/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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KBH vs. DFH, AYI, CCS, DHI, LEN, MTH, NVR, TMHC, TOL, and TPH

Should you be buying KB Home stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of KB Home include Dream Finders Homes (DFH), Acuity (AYI), Century Communities (CCS), D.R. Horton (DHI), Lennar (LEN), Meritage Homes (MTH), NVR (NVR), Taylor Morrison Home (TMHC), Toll Brothers (TOL), and Tri Pointe Homes (TPH).

KB Home vs. Its Competitors

KB Home (NYSE:KBH) and Dream Finders Homes (NASDAQ:DFH) are both mid-cap construction companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

KB Home has higher revenue and earnings than Dream Finders Homes. KB Home is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dream Finders Homes, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
KB Home$6.93B0.65$655.02M$7.558.74
Dream Finders Homes$4.71B0.57$295.90M$3.099.42

KB Home presently has a consensus target price of $66.86, suggesting a potential upside of 1.39%. Dream Finders Homes has a consensus target price of $29.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.35%. Given KB Home's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe KB Home is more favorable than Dream Finders Homes.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
KB Home
1 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.29
Dream Finders Homes
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

In the previous week, KB Home had 22 more articles in the media than Dream Finders Homes. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for KB Home and 9 mentions for Dream Finders Homes. Dream Finders Homes' average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat KB Home's score of 1.05 indicating that Dream Finders Homes is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
KB Home
17 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Dream Finders Homes
3 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

KB Home has a net margin of 8.47% compared to Dream Finders Homes' net margin of 7.65%. Dream Finders Homes' return on equity of 30.18% beat KB Home's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
KB Home8.47% 14.02% 8.14%
Dream Finders Homes 7.65%30.18%10.63%

96.1% of KB Home shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.6% of Dream Finders Homes shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.9% of KB Home shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 68.2% of Dream Finders Homes shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

KB Home has a beta of 1.36, suggesting that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dream Finders Homes has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

KB Home beats Dream Finders Homes on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding KBH and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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KBH vs. The Competition

MetricKB HomeBLDG IndustryConstruction SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$4.59B$10.71B$9.48B$21.58B
Dividend Yield1.48%2.65%1.85%3.49%
P/E Ratio8.748.2117.1029.75
Price / Sales0.651.0293.4585.97
Price / Cash7.108.1315.5025.00
Price / Book1.191.604.704.58
Net Income$655.02M$1.21B$618.77M$999.94M
7 Day Performance-2.82%-4.47%0.10%0.68%
1 Month Performance4.55%0.56%8.19%4.02%
1 Year Performance-23.35%-12.44%105.49%16.39%

KB Home Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KBH
KB Home
4.4015 of 5 stars
$65.95
-2.1%
$66.86
+1.4%
-23.3%$4.59B$6.93B8.742,384News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Revision
DFH
Dream Finders Homes
1.2524 of 5 stars
$31.00
+0.2%
$29.00
-6.4%
-15.2%$2.88B$4.71B10.131,210News Coverage
Analyst Revision
AYI
Acuity
4.223 of 5 stars
$337.09
-0.4%
$352.60
+4.6%
+30.4%$10.33B$4.17B26.5613,200News Coverage
Positive News
CCS
Century Communities
4.4376 of 5 stars
$69.77
+0.2%
$85.00
+21.8%
-34.6%$2.07B$4.40B8.521,873News Coverage
DHI
D.R. Horton
4.3989 of 5 stars
$184.21
+1.3%
$154.38
-16.2%
-8.7%$54.20B$34.58B14.7714,766News Coverage
Positive News
Insider Trade
LEN
Lennar
4.4635 of 5 stars
$142.40
+0.4%
$130.77
-8.2%
-26.2%$36.88B$35.44B11.7813,265Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Revision
MTH
Meritage Homes
4.397 of 5 stars
$82.15
-0.8%
$87.71
+6.8%
-22.5%$5.85B$6.40B7.391,898News Coverage
Positive News
NVR
NVR
3.2611 of 5 stars
$8,539.82
+0.4%
$8,783.33
+2.9%
-10.1%$24.51B$10.29B18.027,000Positive News
TMHC
Taylor Morrison Home
3.4145 of 5 stars
$71.79
-0.1%
$76.88
+7.1%
+1.5%$7.21B$8.17B8.293,000News Coverage
Positive News
TOL
Toll Brothers
4.6241 of 5 stars
$147.98
+0.4%
$149.07
+0.7%
-4.2%$14.26B$10.85B10.874,900
TPH
Tri Pointe Homes
3.4854 of 5 stars
$36.86
-0.8%
$40.80
+10.7%
-20.7%$3.34B$4.42B9.381,750News Coverage
Positive News

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