Homebuilders and Housing Tank into Fiscal Cliff
The resolution for the fiscal cliff remains elusive. The politicians hate each other too much to be rational. If one sector has a lot to lose as the country drives ...Read Full Story »
Lennar Corp (NYSE:LEN)
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Why Wall St. Can’t Get Housing Right (AIV, AVB, LEN, TOL, XHB)
The bad timing of Wall St. analysts is legendary. As the implosion of the subprime mortgage credit market mirrored the collapse in residential and commercial market real estate values in ...Read Full Story »
The 10 Best S&P 500 Stocks of 2012 (PHM, S, WHR, EXPE, LEN, MPC, GILD, BAC, TSO, STZ)
The list of the best stocks of 2012 on the S&P 500 Index is one which makes sense in some cases and doesn't in other cases. Some of these are ...Read Full Story »
Going to the FHA for the Unconventional Mortgage
Like all bubbles that have burst, the housing crisis left an extremely scarred landscape. What used to be a fairly routine mortgage process for a qualified home buyer has turned ...Read Full Story »
Homebuilders Feel Pain of Weak Sales Data (DHI, KBH, LEN, PHM, RYL, TOL)
A disappointing report for new home sales in October sure took a bite out of the homebuilder stocks today. The Census Bureau showed a 0.3% decline to 368,000 on an annualized ...Read Full Story »
Homebuilders: Growth Play, Value Play, or Short? (NVR, TOL, PHM, HOV, DHI, BZH, KBH, LEN, HD, LOW)
Virtually every publicly traded homebuilder stock has posted a new 52-week high in the last month and many now trade above their consensus target prices even though they have come ...Read Full Story »
Home Builder Stocks Up Sharply, Troubled Techs Down
As the market reaches its most choppy period in the past few months, it is worth a look at which stocks have done the best so far in 2012 and ...Read Full Story »
Home Builders’ Confidence at Six-Year High (KBH, LEN, ITB)
The National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo housing market index rose 1 point in October, to 41, the highest index reading since June 2006. An index reading below 50 indicates ...Read Full Story »
Home Sales Forecasts Raised at Fitch Rating
The housing market recovery has been one of the U.S. economy’s brighter stories this year. Now, Fitch Ratings says that the recovery is even better than we thought. In its ...Read Full Story »
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ATVI, ALGN, ARUN, C, FITB, GG, KBH, KGC, LEN, NYX, PAAS, PNC, SIRI, TRV, WFC, XL)
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Tuesday. Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) named value stock of the day ...Read Full Story »
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — September 24, 2012: Markets Can’t Overcome Tech Weakness (AKS, VECO, ORCL, DRI, VLO, LEN, PSDV, RHT, FDS, NEOG, MTN, PPHM, QCOR, LMLP, GOOG, AAPL, FB)
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning following weak economic data from Germany (more coverage here). The weekend meetings between Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois ...Read Full Story »
Homebuilding Continues to Thrive (LEN)
Lennar Corp. (NYSE: LEN) this morning reported fiscal third-quarter 2012 earnings per share (EPS) of $0.40 on revenue of $1.1 billion. In the same period a year ago, the homebuilder ...Read Full Story »
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — September 21, 2012: Markets Mixed on Quadruple Witching Day (FB, IBM, MA, MSI, AN, ORCL, CTAS, DRI, KBH, LEN, PSDV, RHT, S, AAPL, RIMM, DHRM, VVUS)
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened higher this morning, encouraged by a report from Europe that Spain was close to unveiling a rescue plan for the country’s banks that ...Read Full Story »
Value Surprises among Homebuilders Shares? (NVR, TOL, PHM, HOV, DHI, BZH, KBH, LEN, HD, LOW)
Share prices for homebuilders’ stocks began rising at the beginning of the year and all but two of the homebuilders we looked at in our value search have doubled share ...Read Full Story »
Home Builders’ Confidence at Another Five-year High (KBH, LEN, ITB)
Positive signals continue to issue forth for US home builders. The National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo housing market index rose 2 points in August, to 37, the highest index ...Read Full Story »
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