Installed Building Products, Inc. vs KB HOME, two Homebuilders stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where IBP and KBH diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), IBP reads +20.1% and KBH reads -3.2%; on revenue growth, IBP reads +0.2% and KBH reads -18.2%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's IBP price has a different growth bar priced in than KBH (+20.1% implied for IBP vs -3.2% for KBH); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What KBH's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | IBP | KBH |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $204.15 | $49.20 |
| Market cap | $5.5B | $3.0B |
| Sector | Homebuilders | Homebuilders |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +20.1% | -3.2% |
| P/E | 22.0 | 12.0 |
| P/B | 8.53 | 0.79 |
| P/S | 1.84 | 0.55 |
| EV/EBITDA | 14.1 | 298.2 |
| Revenue growth | +0.2% | -18.2% |
| Gross margin | 33.3% | — |
| Operating margin | 12.2% | — |
| Net margin | 8.5% | 4.9% |
| Return on equity | 39.2% | 7.2% |
| Return on assets | 11.1% | 4.0% |
| Return on invested capital | 16.1% | — |
| FCF yield | 5.3% | 11.9% |
| Dividend yield | 1.6% | 2.0% |
| Debt / equity | 1.72 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 2.98 | — |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 4.56 | 7.44 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 9 / 9 |
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