Analyzing KB Home (KBH)’s Gross, Operating, Pretax, and Net Margins

KB Home [KBH] stock is trading at $81.78, down -0.56%. It is a good measure of the stock’s recent performance to check whether the stock’s short-term value is rising or falling. The KBH shares have gain 2.33% over the last week, with a monthly amount glided 2.53%, and seem to be holding up well over a long-time horizon.

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From an analyst’s perspective:

KB Home [NYSE: KBH] stock has seen the most recent analyst activity on August 05, 2024, when Seaport Research Partners downgraded its rating to a Sell but kept the price target unchanged to $65 for it. Previously, Seaport Research Partners downgraded its rating to Neutral on January 11, 2024. On December 08, 2023, downgrade downgraded it’s rating to Sell and revised its price target to $46 on the stock. Wedbush downgraded its rating to a Neutral. Seaport Research Partners upgraded its rating to a Buy but $58 remained the price target by the analyst firm on November 02, 2023. Wells Fargo started tracking with a Equal Weight rating for this stock on October 17, 2023, and assigned it a price target of $49. In a note dated October 16, 2023, Goldman downgraded an Neutral rating on this stock and revised its target price from $54 to $48.

KB Home [KBH] stock has fluctuated between $42.11 and $88.31 over the past year. Currently, Wall Street analysts expect the stock to reach $56.38 within the next 12 months. KB Home [NYSE: KBH] shares were valued at $81.78 at the most recent close of the market. An investor can expect a potential drop of -31.06% based on the average KBH price forecast.

Analyzing the KBH fundamentals

KB Home [NYSE:KBH] reported sales of 6.44B for the trailing twelve months, which represents a drop of -3.14%. Gross Profit Margin for this corporation currently stands at 0.42% with Operating Profit Margin at 0.11%, Pretax Profit Margin comes in at 0.11%, and Net Profit Margin reading is 0.09%. To continue investigating profitability, this company’s Return on Assets is posted at 0.09, Equity is 0.16 and Total Capital is 0.12. Upon thorough examination of the company’s fundamental financial framework, it becomes apparent that the debt-to-equity ratio stands at 0.42.

Before buying any particular stock, readers tend to pay close attention to the indicators that support and create resistance. The company’s stock is currently sitting at 81.22 points at the first support level, and at 80.67 for the second support level. However, for the 1st resistance point, the stock is sitting at 82.37, and for the 2nd resistance point, it is at 82.97.

Ratios To Look Out For

For context, KB Home’s Current Ratio is 6.05. Further, the Quick Ratio stands at 0.97, while the Cash Ratio is 0.61. Considering the valuation of this stock, the price to sales ratio is 0.96, the price to book ratio is 1.54 and price to earnings (TTM) ratio is 10.82.

Transactions by insiders

Recent insider trading involved PRAW ALBERT Z, EVP, Real Estate & Bus. Dev., that happened on May 10 ’24 when 22160.0 shares were sold. Director, Gilligan Thomas W. completed a deal on May 09 ’24 to sell 3914.0 shares. Meanwhile, EVP & Chief Financial Officer Kaminski Jeff sold 38386.0 shares on Apr 09 ’24.

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