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 prices in the past 12 months....
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...
This morning we saw earnings out of some of the key homebuilder stocks.  These numbers are almost immaterial as they are sloppy and results are all over the place and as no one is positive on...
Our look at stock target prices focuses on homebuilders and home improvement stores today. It is not news that U.S. homebuilders have had a very tough few years. In the past five years, only one of...
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 off those highs...
Stock Tickers: XHB, KBH, DHI, PHM, CTX, NVR, MDC, HOV, BZH, LEN, TOL, RYL The short interest for MAY 2007 is out.  We noticed an increase in the number of shares in the May short interest in the...
Lennar posted earnings and as expected these were just ugly.  The loss was $3.25 per share after charges, although this includes charges of $3.33 per share.  Revenues were $2.34...
It appears that the slowdown in foreclosure filings has reached an end. Issues surrounding foreclosure processing, state foreclosure laws, and other court rulings are getting resolved and the pace of...
These are ten of the analyst calls we are focusing on this Friday morning: Apollo Group (NASDAQ: APOL) Raised to Outperform at Credit Suisse. Beazer Homes (NYSE: BZH) Raised To Neutral at UBS. Chubb...
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch has initiated coverage of the homebuilder sector this morning.  Technically this is a resumption of coverage.  While some are positive calls, there are still some...
These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street firms: Beazer Homes (NYSE: BZH) Raised to Buy at UBS. BP plc (NYSE: BP)...
Everyone keeps predicting one or more of the large US Homebuilders is going to implode because of their overbuilding and inability to sell new units at their old highly profitable margins.  Most...
Source: Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Monday morning.American Water Works Company Inc. (NYSE: AWK) raised to...
We have many after-hours movers.  Some are earnings related, and some are not.  Movers in the after-hours session include Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH), BP plc (NYSE: BP), Federal Signal...
Source: ThinkstockThe home building industry may have been left for dead after the mortgage debacle and recession of 2008, but it continues to help lead markets higher and heal a very anemic economy....