KB Home (KBH) Stock Price, News & Analysis

12 Wall Street equities 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 equities 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 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for KB Home's stock. Their KBH share price targets range from $43.00 to $87.00. On average, they predict the company's stock 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 start of the year. Since then, KBH shares have increased by 5.0% and is now trading at $65.60.
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KB Home saw a decrease in short interest in March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 4,710,000 shares, a decrease of 21.9% from the February 29th total of 6,030,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,160,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 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) issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, March, 20th. The construction company reported $1.76 EPS 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%. The firm's revenue was up 6.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.45 earnings per share.

KB Home declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, April 18th. Investors of record on Thursday, May 9th will be paid a dividend of $0.25 per share on Thursday, May 23rd. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.52%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, May 8th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.20.
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KB Home (NYSE:KBH) pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.24%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 13.61%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, KBH will have a dividend payout ratio of 11.47% 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), Inspire Faithward Mid Cap Momentum ETF (GLRY), Opus Small Cap Value Plus ETF (OSCV), Alpha Architect U.S. Quantitative Momentum ETF (QMOM), Invesco MSCI Green Building ETF (GBLD), Invesco S&P MidCap Value with Momentum ETF (XMVM), Global X Green Building ETF (GRNR) and Hoya Capital Housing ETF (HOMZ).

KB Home declared that its board has authorized a share buyback program on Wednesday, March 22nd 2023, which authorizes the company to buyback $500,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 15.2% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are typically a sign that the company's board of directors 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 retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.85%), Salem Investment Counselors Inc. (0.20%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.17%), Raymond James Financial Services Advisors Inc. (0.16%), Raymond James & Associates (0.11%) and Amalgamated Bank (0.05%). 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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