One of the most dreaded feelings for an investor is when the stock they just bought is overvalued, or they missed out on an undervalued opportunity by not acting fast enough.

But what if you had the insights to effectively evaluate a company like KB Home before investing? Investing requires a certain perspective to avoid being overly confident in a company or worried about cyclical changes. A smart way to take the guesswork out of knowing when to buy or sell KB Home’s stock is to have the right tools and resources as well as a clear monitoring process.

In this article, we go over a few key elements for understanding KB Home’s stock price such as:

• Current stock price and volume
• Stock price history
• Upgrades and downgrades from analysts
• Stock price momentum as measured by its relative strength

About KB Home (KBH)

Before we jump into KB Home’s stock price, history, target price and what caused it to recently rise, let’s take a look at some background.

KB Home is a home building company. The Company builds a variety of new homes designed primarily for first-time and first move-up, as well as second move-up and active adult homebuyers, including attached and detached single-family residential homes, townhomes, and condominiums. The Company's segments include homebuilding, and financial services. Its homebuilding segments consist of four segments: West Coast, Southwest, Central, and Southeast. Its homebuilding segments are engaged in the acquisition and development of land primarily for residential purposes and offer a variety of homes that are designed to appeal to first-time, first move-up and active adult homebuyers. Its financial services segment offers property and casualty insurance, and, in certain instances, earthquake, flood and personal property insurance to its homebuyers and provides title services in markets located within its Southwest, Central and Southeast homebuilding segments. It provides mortgage banking services.

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KB Home’s Stock Price as of Market Close

As of March 23, 2023, 4:01 PM CST, KB Home’s stock price was $39.57.

KB Home is up 7.53% from its previous closing price of $36.80.

During the last market session, KB Home’s stock traded between $36.55 and $37.72. Currently, there are 84.83 million shares of KB Home stock available for purchase.

KB Home’s price-earnings (P/E) ratio is currently at 4.0, which is low compared to the Homebuilding industry median of 5. The price-earnings ratio gauges market expectation of future performance by relating a stock’s current share price to its earnings per share.

KB Home Stock Price History

KB Home’s (KBH) price is currently up 12.19% so far this month.

During the month of March, KB Home’s stock price has reached a high of $40.52 and a low of $33.92.

Over the last year, KB Home has hit prices as high as $40.92 and as low as $24.78. Year to date, KB Home’s stock is down 11.54%.

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What Caused KB Home Stock’s Price to Rise?

Stock prices are primarily based on seller supply and buyer demand. But have you ever wondered about what other factors affect a stock's price?

One of the most common factors that can drastically impact a stock’s price is analyst upgrades and downgrades. When an analyst changes their opinion of a stock by upgrading or downgrading their rating, it often leads to a sudden stock price adjustment. As of March 22, 2023, there were 0 analysts who downgraded KB Home’s stock and 1 analyst who upgraded over the last month.

Additionally, you'll want to evaluate KB Home’s financial health and valuation. It is possible for a stock to appear cheap based on one valuation metric but appear expensive on another. It is also possible for one valuation ratio to be associated with outperforming stocks during certain periods of time but not others.

Therefore, AAII developed a composite valuation to help resolve such issues. AAII’s Value Grade analyzes six distinct variables: price-to-sales (P/S) ratio, price-earnings (P/E) ratio, the ratio of enterprise value to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EV/EBITDA), shareholder yield, price-to-book-value (P/B) ratio and price-to-free-cash-flow (P/FCF) ratio.

KB Home’s current valuation based on AAII’s Value Grade is a A, which means it is considered to be Deep Value.

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Lastly, news and media coverage as well as recent press reports about the company or its industry may cause stock prices to fluctuate. You can check out the most recent news articles about KB Home (KBH) by visiting AAII Stock Evaluator.

Relative Price Strength of KB Home

Relative price strength addresses the relationship between a stock price’s trend and the price trend of the market. This ratio is expressed as a percentage and helps investors understand a company’s momentum as well as its value. You can use relative price strength to select investments that have been outperforming the market or a specific benchmark.

For AAII’s Momentum Grade, a weighted relative price strength is calculated. The weighted four-quarter relative price strength rank is the relative price change for each of the past four quarters. The most recent quarterly price change is given a weight of 40%, and each of the three previous quarters are given a weighting of 20%.

As of March 22, 2023, KB Home has a weighted four-quarter relative price strength of 5.18%, which translates to a Momentum Score of 80 and is considered to be Strong.

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KB Home Stock Price: Bottom Line

As of March 23, 2023, KB Home’s stock price is $39.57, which is up 7.53% from its previous closing price.

At AAII, we stress that investors should never buy or sell a stock solely based on its stock price. Past returns do not guarantee future performance. Therefore, you should consider multiple ratios, fundamentals and analytics before making a decision. Whether you decide it’s a good time to buy or sell KB Home’s stock based on its stock price forecast is ultimately up to you.

It’s important to understand that stock prices are driven by a variety of factors, but ultimately the price at any given moment is due to the supply and demand in the market. Stock price overviews, like the one you just read, only give you a small snapshot of a company’s performance, value and momentum.

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