KB Home displays excellent free cash flow conversion and a recent history of earnings beats, but the thesis is undermined by a 23% revenue decline, high short interest, a confirmed technical downtrend, and below-minimum business quality — collectively pointing to a deteriorating fundamental setup with unattractive reward-to-risk.
Thesis pillars
- Revenue Decline→Stable
- High Short Interest→Stable
- Strong Cash Conversion→Stable
- +1 more pillar — see the Why tab for full reasoning
KB Home (KBH) Stock Analysis
Momentum Cont setup
Consumer Cyclical · Residential Construction
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $60.00: a dimension score below its floor triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.1/10. Specifically: High short interest: 20%; Below-average business quality.
KB Home builds attached and detached single-family homes, townhomes, and condominiums across nine states in four segments—West Coast, Southwest, Central, and Southeast—targeting first-time and first move-up buyers, who represent more than 75% of annual deliveries. Homebuilding... Read more
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $60.00: a dimension score below its floor triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.1/10. Specifically: High short interest: 20%; Below-average business quality. Chart setup: Trend continuation, RSI 63, MACD bullish. Score 4.1/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 6/10 gates (positive momentum, clean insider activity, news events none recent, earnings proximity 81d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on favorable risk/reward ratio. Suitability: aggressive.
About KB Home
About KB Home
KB Home held 64,612 lots owned or controlled across four homebuilding segments at November 30, 2025—down from 76,703 a year earlier—with West Coast at 20,750 lots, Central at 20,614, Southeast at 12,106, and Southwest at 11,142. Homebuilding operations accounted for 99.6% of total revenues in 2025, with the company delivering homes across nine states and 49 major markets. First-time and first move-up homebuyers have averaged more than 75% of annual deliveries for over a decade, with California generating the highest proportion of revenues.
KB Home builds homes primarily under the Built to Order process, where construction begins only after a signed purchase contract and preliminary credit approval. In 2025, approximately 55% of homes delivered were Built to Order, below the historical 60–70% average due to supply chain disruptions in prior years; the company intends to bring that mix closer to historical levels in 2026. Revenue per home reflects a base price plus design options selected at KB Home Design Studios in each served market. The company uses fixed-price contracts with larger trade partners to moderate construction cost inflation. Independent contractors perform essentially all land development and home construction, exposing the company to availability and performance risk in a tight labor market. Financial services—mortgage banking through KBHS, a joint venture with GR Alliance (a subsidiary of Guaranteed Rate, Inc.)—contributed 0.4% of 2025 revenues.
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California presents the most concentrated geographic risk. The 10-K notes that the business is presently concentrated in California, Florida, Nevada, and Texas, with California generating the highest proportion of revenues. Effective 2026, California's new energy efficiency standards require all new residences to be electric-ready for heating, cooling, cooking, clothes drying, and water heating systems. Solar installation disruptions in 2024–2025, driven by federal tax credit changes and California net metering amendments, caused delivery delays, and the state's regulated permitting and wildfire-protection requirements have increased land development costs and entitlement timelines.
See also: Consumer Cyclical · Residential Construction
From KB Home's most recent 10-K filing, extracted June 10, 2026.
Recent developments
updated 2026-07-07Recent Developments — KB Home
Latest news
- NEWS Barclays Maintains Overweight on KB Home, Raises Price Target to $57 — benzinga Jun 25, 2026 positive
- NEWS Trump Freezes Housing Bill. What It Means For Homebuilder And REIT ETFs — benzinga Jun 25, 2026 neutral
- NEWS Homebuilders Just Posted Their Best Day In A Year: What's Behind The Move? — benzinga Jun 24, 2026 positive
- NEWS 12 Consumer Discretionary Stocks Moving In Wednesday's Intraday Session — benzinga Jun 24, 2026 neutral
- NEWS Truist Securities Maintains Hold on KB Home, Raises Price Target to $56 — benzinga Jun 24, 2026 neutral
Generated 2026-07-07T13:32:09Z.
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Concentration Risks(10-K Item 1A)
- HIGHProducthomebuilding100%10-K Item 1: 'Our homebuilding operations represent the majority of our business, accounting for 99.6% of our total revenues in 2025'
- HIGHCustomerfirst-time and first move-up homebuyers75%10-K Item 1: 'first-time and first move-up homebuyers have accounted for an average of over 75% of our annual deliveries'
- MEDIUMGeographicCalifornia10-K Item 1A: 'We generate the highest proportion of our revenues from and make significant inventory investments in our California operations'
- MEDIUMGeographicCalifornia, Florida, Nevada and Texas10-K Item 1A: 'our business is presently concentrated in California, Florida, Nevada and Texas'
Material Events(8-K, last 90d)
- 2026-05-01Item 5.02HIGHRobert R. Dillard, KB Home's Executive VP and CFO, resigned effective May 8, 2026. Decision not related to any disagreement with KB Home or its financial or accounting policies or practices. No successor named.SEC filing →
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Rating Breakdown
3 floor-breakers
Revenue shrinking — -27.3% YoY. Growth thesis broken unless recovery story develops.static
Ranks in the bottom of its industry peers on the composite signal. Better names in the same sector exist.static
Quality below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $60.00: a dimension score below its floor triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.1/10. Specifically: High short interest: 20%; Below-average business quality. Chart setup: Trend continuation, RSI 63, MACD bullish. Prior stop was $55.60. Score 4.1/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $62.36 (+4.3% upside). Prior stop was $55.60. Stop-loss: $55.60.
Concentration risk — Product: homebuilding (99.6%); Concentration risk — Customer: first-time and first move-up homebuyers (75.0%); Target reached (-15.2% upside).
KB Home trades at a P/E of 14.9 (forward 13.8). TrendMatrix value score: 6.1/10. Verdict: Sell.
24 analysts cover KBH with a consensus score of 2.7/5. Average price target: $58.
What does KB Home do?KB Home builds attached and detached single-family homes, townhomes, and condominiums across nine states in four...
KB Home builds attached and detached single-family homes, townhomes, and condominiums across nine states in four segments—West Coast, Southwest, Central, and Southeast—targeting first-time and first move-up buyers, who represent more than 75% of annual deliveries. Homebuilding generates 99.6% of revenues; California provides the highest proportion. The company held 64,612 lots owned or controlled at November 30, 2025.