KB Home (KBH) Stock Price, News & Analysis

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for KB Home in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 6 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street 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 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for KB Home's stock. Their KBH share price targets range from $43.00 to $87.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $66.11 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 8.3% from the stock's current price.
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KB Home's stock was trading at $62.46 at the start of the year. Since then, KBH stock has decreased by 2.3% and is now trading at $61.03.
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KB Home saw a decline in short interest during the month of 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 presently 4.1 days. Approximately 6.5% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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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) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, March, 20th. The construction company reported $1.76 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.57 by $0.19. The construction company earned $1.47 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.46 billion. KB Home had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 15.78% and a net margin of 9.29%. KB Home's revenue for the quarter was up 6.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $1.45 earnings per share.

KB Home announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, April 18th. Shareholders 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 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.64%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, May 8th. This is a positive change 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 1.29%. 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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ETFs with the largest weight of KB Home (NYSE:KBH) stock in their portfolio include Aztlan Global Stock Selection DM SMID ETF (AZTD), Opus Small Cap Value Plus ETF (OSCV), Alpha Architect U.S. Quantitative Momentum ETF (QMOM), Invesco S&P MidCap Value with Momentum ETF (XMVM), Global X Green Building ETF (GRNR), Hoya Capital Housing ETF (HOMZ), Invesco MSCI Green Building ETF (GBLD) and iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF (ITB).

KB Home declared that its board has authorized a stock buyback program on Wednesday, March 22nd 2023, which allows the company to repurchase $500,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to repurchase up to 15.2% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are usually a sign that the company's board believes its shares are 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 many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Salem Investment Counselors Inc. (0.20%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.03%), Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services LLC (0.03%), FCF Advisors LLC (0.03%), State of Michigan Retirement System (0.02%) and Wealthcare Advisory Partners LLC (0.01%). 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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Shares of KBH stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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