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 12 month price objectives 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 that the stock has a possible downside of 4.7%.
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KB Home's stock was trading at $62.46 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, KBH stock has increased by 11.1% and is now trading at $69.37.
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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 quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, March, 20th. The construction company reported $1.76 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate 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%. KB Home's revenue was up 6.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $1.45 earnings per share.

KB Home announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, April 18th. Stockholders 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 1.44%. The ex-dividend date 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 $1.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.16%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 2 consecutive year(s), indicating that it 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), Invesco MSCI Green Building ETF (GBLD), Alpha Architect U.S. Quantitative Momentum ETF (QMOM), Invesco S&P MidCap Value with Momentum ETF (XMVM), Global X Green Building ETF (GRNR) and iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF (ITB).

KB Home announced that its board has initiated a stock repurchase plan 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 buy up to 15.2% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are often an indication that the company's leadership 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%), LSV Asset Management (0.64%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.24%), Nordea Investment Management AB (0.22%), Salem Investment Counselors Inc. (0.20%) and BNP Paribas Financial Markets (0.18%). 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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