KB Home stock analysis
KB Home (KBH) Stock Price & Analysis
KBH Stock Chart & Stats
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- Average Volume (3M)
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- Market Cap
- CHF 2.53B
- Enterprise Value
- CHF 5.27B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- CHF 160.06M
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- CHF 2.14B
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 13.9
- Beta
- 1.77
- Next Earnings
- Mar 24, 2027 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- N/A
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- N/A
- Dividend Yield
- 1.92%
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Built-to-Order Execution
A predominantly built-to-order model can reduce speculative inventory and align construction with contracted demand. The rising mix, improving backlog, and lower unsold inventory support more disciplined working-capital management and may help protect profitability through changing housing conditions.
Liquidity And Balance Sheet
Substantial liquidity and a well-laddered debt maturity profile provide financial flexibility while housing demand and margins remain pressured. Manageable leverage and available credit can support land investment, construction needs, and shareholder returns without relying solely on near-term operating cash flow.
Land Pipeline And Cost Discipline
A large controlled lot position supports future community openings and gives KB Home a multi-year platform for deliveries. Management’s refusal to pursue land deals below return requirements, combined with value engineering and asset rotation, supports disciplined growth and cost control.
Bears Say
Demand And Competitive Pressure
Lower traffic and net orders indicate that affordability pressure and stronger resale competition are weakening customer conversion. Persistent pricing concessions or slower absorption could reduce community productivity, delay deliveries, and limit KB Home’s ability to preserve revenue growth over coming quarters.
Margin Compression
Falling margins show that pricing pressure, higher relative land costs, weaker operating leverage, and cost inflation are reducing earnings power. If these pressures persist, the company may need greater efficiency or incentives to sustain demand, making recovery toward its long-term margin target less certain.
Weak Cash Conversion
The sharp decline in operating and free cash flow reduces internally generated funding for land, construction, debt service, and shareholder distributions. FCF covering only about 41% of net income also signals weaker earnings conversion, increasing dependence on balance-sheet liquidity during a pressured cycle.
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Company Description
KB Home
KB Home functions as a prominent residential construction enterprise across the United States. Its operations are strategically divided into four key geographical areas: the West Coast, Southwest, Central, and Southeast regions. The company is engaged in both constructing and selling a wide range of housing types, from attached and detached single-family dwellings to multi-family options like townhouses and condominiums. It serves a diverse clientele, including individuals purchasing their first home, those seeking their first or second upgrade, and active adult homebuyers. Beyond its core building activities, KB Home also extends financial services, offering products such as insurance and title processing. Its operational reach spans numerous states, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, and Washington. Founded in 1957, the company was initially known as Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation before officially adopting the name KB Home in January 2001, with its corporate headquarters located in Los Angeles, California.
- Sector
- Consumercyclical
- Industry
- Residential Construction
- CEO
- Robert V. McGibney
- Employees
- 2,118
- Website
- www.kbhome.com
- Address
- 10990 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, US
KB Home (KBH) Earnings & Revenues
KBH Company Deck
KBH Earnings Call
Earnings Call SentimentNeutral
The call was cautiously balanced. KB Home highlighted strong execution of its Built to Order strategy, lower inventory risk, faster build times, solid buyer credit metrics, substantial backlog visibility, continued shareholder returns, and a healthy liquidity position. However, these strengths were offset by weaker housing demand, lower traffic and orders, year-over-year declines in revenue and earnings, increased resale competition, pricing pressure, higher costs, and reduced fourth-quarter ASP and gross margin expectations.
View all CH:KBH earnings summariesKBH Net sales Breakdown
- 36.37% West Coast
- 28.71% Central
- 18.33% Sothwest
- 16.58% Southeast
