KB Home (KBH) Stock Price, News & Analysis

12 Wall Street research 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 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" KBH shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in KBH, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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12 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for KB Home's stock. Their KBH share price targets range from $43.00 to $87.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $66.11 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 0.8% from the stock's current price.
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KB Home's stock was trading at $62.46 at the beginning of the year. Since then, KBH shares have increased by 5.0% and is now trading at $65.61.
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KB Home saw a decline in short interest in March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 4,710,000 shares, a decline of 21.9% from the February 29th total of 6,030,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,160,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.1 days. Approximately 6.5% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, June 19th 2024.
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KB Home (NYSE:KBH) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, March, 20th. The construction company reported $1.76 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.57 by $0.19. The construction company had revenue of $1.47 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.46 billion. KB Home had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 15.78% and a net margin of 9.29%. The company's revenue was up 6.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $1.45 EPS.

KB Home announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, April 18th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, May 9th will be given a dividend of $0.25 per share on Thursday, May 23rd. This represents a $1.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.52%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, May 8th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.20.
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KB Home (NYSE:KBH) pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.28%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 10.88%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, KBH will have a dividend payout ratio of 9.17% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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KB Home declared that its board has authorized a stock repurchase program on Wednesday, March 22nd 2023, which permits the company to repurchase $500,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to reacquire up to 15.2% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are usually an indication that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

109 employees have rated KB Home Chief Executive Officer Jeff Mezger on Glassdoor.com. Jeff Mezger has an approval rating of 68% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other KB Home investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Micron Technology (MU), Bank of America (BAC), Alibaba Group (BABA), Intel (INTC), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Home Depot (HD), Walt Disney (DIS) and Netflix (NFLX).

KB Home's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.85%), Salem Investment Counselors Inc. (0.20%), Raymond James Financial Services Advisors Inc. (0.16%), Raymond James & Associates (0.11%), Amalgamated Bank (0.05%) and Signature Wealth Management Group (0.04%). Insiders that own company stock include Albert Z Praw, Arthur Reginald Collins, Brian J Woram, Jeff Kaminski, Jeffrey T Mezger, Melissa Lora, Thomas W Gilligan and William R Hollinger.
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