KB Home (NYSE: KBH) is -27.95% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $48.90 and a high of $89.70 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The KBH stock was last observed hovering at around $53.63 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 1.22%.
Currently trading at $54.85, the stock is 2.35% and 2.84% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.94 million and changing 2.27% at the moment leaves the stock -15.33% off its SMA200. KBH registered -16.54% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -14.40%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $53.338 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $65.09205.
The stock witnessed a 4.60% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 7.51%, and is -2.00% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 3.17% over the week and 3.65% over the month.
KB Home (KBH) has around 2384 employees, a market worth around $3.73B and $6.67B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 7.26 and Fwd P/E is 8.46. Profit margin for the company is 8.41%. Distance from 52-week low is 12.17% and -38.85% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (9.51%).
with sales reaching $1.59B over the same period.The EPS is expected to shrink by -23.69% this year, but quarterly earnings will post -8.58% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to shrink -9.06% in year-over-year returns.
567.0 institutions hold shares in KB Home (KBH), with institutional investors hold 112.16% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 68.05M, and float is at 65.42M with Short Float at 8.72%. Institutions hold 108.13% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 10.7 million shares valued at $750.84 million. The investor’s holdings represent 14.1418 of the KBH Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 7.42 million shares valued at $520.67 million to account for 9.8067 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are FMR LLC which holds 3.66 million shares representing 4.8362 and valued at over $256.77 million, while STATE STREET CORP holds 4.6185 of the shares totaling 3.49 million with a market value of $245.21 million.
KB Home (KBH) Insider Activity
KB Home disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on May 16 ’25 that Collins Arthur Reginald (Director) sold a total of 5,000 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on May 16 ’25 and was made at $54.38 per share for $0.27 million. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 10262.0 shares of the KBH stock.
