1-Star Stocks Poised to Plunge: KB Home?
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, homebuilder KB Home (NYS: KBH) has received the dreaded one-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at KB Home's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
KB Home facts
Headquarters (Founded) | Los Angeles (1957) |
Market Cap | $760.0 million |
Industry | Homebuilding |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $1.3 billion |
Management | CEO Jeffrey Mezger (since 2006) |
Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years) | (19%) |
Cash/Debt | $415.1 million / $1.6 billion |
Competitors | Lennar |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 54% of the 1,238 members who have rated KB Home believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last week, one of those Fools, All-Star Chemdawg, touched on KB Home's seemingly unsustainable price action:
[N]ice run-up... this far this fast based on basically no real data doesn't usually end well short term. While I am bullish long term on home builders as the prices have stabilized to a large degree here in southwest [F]lorida, we still have plenty of inventory held by banks. [T]hey are withholding properties to try to create pent up demand ... but the properties are still selling far below what replacement cost would be on a new built home. [I]t's still too early to try to call a bottom ... increase in stock price over the past month is a recipe for a correction short term.
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