Can KB Home’s (KBH) hike of 6.95% in a week be considered a lucky break?

KB Home (NYSE: KBH) kicked off on Friday, up 1.83% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $83.73. Over the past 52 weeks, KBH has traded in a range of $42.11-$89.70.

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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Consumer Cyclical sector saw sales topped by 8.46%. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 19.68%. With a float of $70.85 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $75.87 million.

The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 2205 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 41.13%, operating margin of 11.01%, and the pretax margin is 10.66%.

KB Home (KBH) Insider and Institutional Ownership

Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Residential Construction Industry. The insider ownership of KB Home is 3.39%, while institutional ownership is 104.00%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Oct 14 ’24, was worth 2,183,500. In this transaction EVP & Chief Financial Officer of this company sold 27,500 shares at a rate of $79.40, taking the stock ownership to the 34,473 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Oct 14 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 27,500 for $79.40, making the entire transaction worth $2,183,596.

KB Home (KBH) Latest Financial update

In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 8/31/2024, the organization reported 1.85 earnings per share (EPS), higher than consensus estimate (set at 1.69) by 0.16. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.64 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 19.68% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 13.89% during the next five years compared to 32.69% growth over the previous five years of trading.

KB Home (NYSE: KBH) Trading Performance Indicators

Take a look at KB Home’s (KBH) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.69. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.95. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 22.82.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 7.80, a number that is poised to hit 2.47 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 9.30 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of KB Home (KBH)

The latest stats from [KB Home, KBH] show that its last 5-days average volume of 1.05 million was inferior to 1.24 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 86.92%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.31.

During the past 100 days, KB Home’s (KBH) raw stochastic average was set at 81.79%, which indicates a significant decrease from 90.02% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 23.55% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 36.93% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $82.80, while its 200-day Moving Average is $71.78. Now, the first resistance to watch is $86.25. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $87.24. The third major resistance level sits at $88.56. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $83.94, it is likely to go to the next support level at $82.62. The third support level lies at $81.63 if the price breaches the second support level.

KB Home (NYSE: KBH) Key Stats

The company with the Market Capitalisation of 6.25 billion has total of 75,204K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 6,411 M in contrast with the sum of 590,180 K annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 1,753 M and last quarter income was 157,330 K.