Homebuilder KB Home (NYSE: KBH) will be reporting results this Tuesday after market close. Here’s what investors should know.
KB Home beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.11 billion, down 27.3% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting KB Home’s revenue to decline 20% year on year, a further deceleration from the 7.5% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business will stay the course heading into earnings. KB Home has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at KB Home’s peers in the industrials segment, only Lennar has reported results so far. It missed analysts’ revenue estimates, posting year-on-year sales declines of 8.7%. The stock traded up 2% on the results.
Read our full analysis of Lennar’s earnings results here.Over the last year or so, investors' attention has moved from one major market theme to the next, spanning AI disruption and surging infrastructure investment to geopolitical tensions, interest rates, and the health of the broader economy. While some of the industrials stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 5% on average over the last month. KB Home is down 14.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $58.42 (compared to the current share price of $47.34).
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