SPDR Homebuilders ETF

NYSE ARCA: XHB
$100.93
+$0.77 (+0.8%)
Closing price April 22, 2024
The SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF, managed by State Street Global Advisors, focuses on the U.S. housing sector. It invests in a variety of companies within consumer discretionary and homebuilding industries, aiming to mirror the performance of the S&P Homebuilders Select Industry Index. This ETF targets both growth and value stocks across different market sizes, offering investors exposure to the home construction and household goods markets since its inception in 2006.

Homebuilders and Housing Tank into Fiscal Cliff
Source: Flickr, Images of MoneyThe 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 off...
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Why Wall St. Can't Get Housing Right (AIV, AVB, LEN, TOL, XHB)
Source: ThinkstockThe 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...
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2012 Election Winners and Losers: Coal, Dividends, Health Care, Utilities, Oil and More
Source: ThinkstockElection 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 seen was only...
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Homebuilder Hammers Estimates Again, Orders Rise 40% (LEN, DHI, PHM, HOV, TOL, NVR, KBH, XHB)
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)
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 shadow inventory are...
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Homebuilder Horton Beats Estimates, Expects Full-year Profit (DHI, PHM, LEN, HOV, TOL, NVR, KBH, XHB)
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 their parents are...
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PulteGroup Sinks Homebuilders Shares (PHM, DHI, KBH, MHO, XHB)
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...
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New Homes Sales Wreck Housing Players (HD, LOW, ITB, XHB)
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 target of 325,000.  January was...
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Mortgage Applications Fall Again (KBH, LEN, PHM, DHI, BZH, XHB)
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,...
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New Home Sales Continue to be Awful (KBH, LEN, PHM, DHI, TOL, NVR, BZH, XHB)
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 news starts...
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After Toll's Report, Housing Market Still Sick (TOL, NVR, PHM, MHO, RYL, DHI, BZH, XHB)
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 on...
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Lowe's & Home Depot Diverge As Homebuilder Proxy (LOW, HD, XHB, ITB, DHI, PHM, PMI)
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 when you combine...
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Mortgage Applications Rise, But Not for New Buyers (NVR, PHM, MHO, RYL, DHI, BZH, XHB, STC)
For the second week in a row, the number of US mortgage applications rose, but the vast majority of the action came in refinancing, not new purchases. This spells continuing pressure on new home...
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Counter-Take: Should Housing Really Be Recovering Yet? (ITB, XHB, KBH, HOV, DRI, LEN, TOL)
This week is starting to look a bit different for housing and homebuilders and it is a serious matter in considering that the news of the world and the less recent housing data may be a bit too...
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