KB HOME
At today's price, KB HOME (KBH) is priced for +5.3% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• KB Home builds entry-level and first-move-up homes across the West Coast, Southwest, Central, and Southeast on a built-to-order model, which gives it better demand visibility but ties its results directly to mortgage affordability for budget-conscious buyers. • The defining pressure right now is margin, with housing gross margin falling to 15.2% from 19.3% as lower pricing, higher land costs, and weaker operating leverage hit a 27% revenue decline in the second quarter [Source: Q2 2026 earning
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371 institutional managers reported holding KBH in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 95% of the company; the top 10 hold 55%. 45 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, FMR (Fidelity), among others. On the short side, 7.3M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 11% of shares outstanding (6.3 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
KBH has cut its share count 32% over the past five years, spending $1.69B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting), raised 7 years straight; the current rate is $1.00 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $188.51M in dividends and $1.19B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at KBH over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 16 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
KBH's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-08 | +1.0% | +4.4% |
| 2023-10-07 | -5.0% | +28.1% |
| 2024-01-20 | -0.2% | +11.5% |
| 2024-04-06 | +0.6% | +1.2% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
KBH's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-23 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-05-01 (items 5.02); 2026-04-24 (items 5.07); 2026-03-24 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-01-28 (items 5.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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