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Analyst Upgrades Housing Stocks — the Big Chase Marches On (KBH, LEN, TOL, WY, XHB, ITB)

Posted: March 19, 2013 at 10:50 am

By now you are likely well aware that the housing crisis is not just over. The housing market is undersupplied and many markets are experiencing huge booms in their pricing. Many ...
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Deutsche Bank Raises Price Targets on Homebuilders — Time to Tap the Brakes? (DB, BCS, DHI, MDC, MTH, RYL, PHM, XHB)

Posted: February 6, 2013 at 9:25 am

We have written at great length about the resurgence of homebuilding in the United States. Like any other sector, if you go long enough without production, demand catches up with ...
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Beware the Sharp Rise in Treasury Yields (GS, TBT, TLT, MORT, XHB)

Posted: January 4, 2013 at 11:48 am

Interest rates are nearly zero and the Federal Reserve has pledged to keep them that way until unemployment reaches 6.5% and as long as inflation does not get to a ...
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Homebuilders and Housing Tank into Fiscal Cliff

Posted: December 21, 2012 at 9:56 am

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 ...
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Why Wall St. Can’t Get Housing Right (AIV, AVB, LEN, TOL, XHB)

Posted: December 13, 2012 at 6:29 am

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 ...
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2012 Election Winners and Losers: Coal, Dividends, Health Care, Utilities, Oil and More

Posted: November 7, 2012 at 8:10 am

Election Day has come and gone. President Obama won a second term. The current electoral vote was by a margin of about 3 to 2 (unofficial), but the percentage last ...
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Homebuilder Hammers Estimates Again, Orders Rise 40% (LEN, DHI, PHM, HOV, TOL, NVR, KBH, XHB)

Posted: June 27, 2012 at 9:41 am

Homebuilder Lennar Corp. (NYSE: LEN) reported second quarter earnings today that handily beat both EPS and revenue estimates. Excluding a one-time tax gain, the company posted EPS of $0.21 compared ...
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Evaluating a Housing Stock Bubble (DHI, LEN, TOL, USG, HD, STC, ELLI, XHB, ITB)

Posted: June 19, 2012 at 3:57 pm

Investors have been chasing up the housing stocks higher and higher over the last year.  The economy is only just now seeing a better housing market and foreclosures and the ...
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Homebuilder Horton Beats Estimates, Expects Full-year Profit (DHI, PHM, LEN, HOV, TOL, NVR, KBH, XHB)

Posted: April 23, 2012 at 9:35 am

Hopes for a recovery in homebuilding have picked up recently, primarily as a result of pent-up demand for new household formation. All those college grads who moved back in with ...
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PulteGroup Sinks Homebuilders Shares (PHM, DHI, KBH, MHO, XHB)

Posted: March 29, 2012 at 10:57 am

Homebuilder PulteGroup Inc. (NYSE: PHM) is leading homebuilding stocks into another trough today following a downgrade from S&P Capital IQ to ‘Strong Sell’. MarketWatch cites an analyst’s comment on Pulte ...
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New Homes Sales Wreck Housing Players (HD, LOW, ITB, XHB)

Posted: March 23, 2012 at 10:27 am

The housing data keeps coming in with a mixed fan-fare.  The new home sales in America for the month of February fell 1.6% to 313,000 versus a Dow Jones consensus ...
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Mortgage Applications Fall Again (KBH, LEN, PHM, DHI, BZH, XHB)

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 9:45 am

Mortgage interest rates remain historically low, but buyers are either unwilling or unable to take advantage of the low rates. After three straight weeks of increases in mortgage applications, borrowers ...
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New Home Sales Continue to be Awful (KBH, LEN, PHM, DHI, TOL, NVR, BZH, XHB)

Posted: September 26, 2011 at 1:24 pm

Despite a near-compulsive search for good news from the US housing market, nearly every story contains more than enough dismal news to outweigh whatever good news there is. Generally the ...
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After Toll’s Report, Housing Market Still Sick (TOL, NVR, PHM, MHO, RYL, DHI, BZH, XHB)

Posted: August 24, 2011 at 9:07 am

Homebuilder Toll Brothers, Inc. (NYSE: TOL) reported third fiscal quarter earnings this morning, managing to post EPS of $0.25 on revenue of $394 million. Analysts were expecting EPS of $0.03 ...
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Lowe’s & Home Depot Diverge As Homebuilder Proxy (LOW, HD, XHB, ITB, DHI, PHM, PMI)

Posted: August 15, 2011 at 11:36 am

Lowe's Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW) reported earnings on Monday morning ahead of the Tuesday report from The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE: HD).  When you look at the Lowe's numbers and ...
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