Hovnanian Enterprises Inc (HOV): Today's Featured Materials & Construction Winner

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Hovnanian (HOV) pushed the Materials & Construction industry higher today making it today's featured materials & construction winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 1.5%. By the end of trading, Hovnanian rose 19 cents (3.6%) to $5.50 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 15.4 million shares of Hovnanian exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 6.6 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $5.01-$5.59 after having opened the day at $5.20 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $5.31. Other companies within the Materials & Construction industry that increased today were: Comstock (CHCI), up 6.1%, China Advanced Construction Materials Group (CADC), up 5.9%, Dycom Industries (DY), up 5.3%, and Veolia Environnement (VE), up 3.8%.

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Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. designs, constructs, markets, and sells residential homes in the United States. It constructs single-family attached and detached homes, attached townhomes and condominiums, and urban infill and active adult homes. Hovnanian has a market cap of $596.4 million and is part of the industrial goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of -6.5, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 249.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there is one analyst that rates Hovnanian a buy, four analysts rate it a sell, and two rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Hovnanian as a sell. Among the areas we feel are negative, one of the most important has been poor profit margins.

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On the negative front, LSB Industries (LXU), down 8.5%, TRC Companies (TRR), down 7%, MagneGas Corporation (MNGA), down 6.6%, and PGT (PGTI), down 6.1%, were all laggards within the materials & construction industry with Cemex S.A.B. de C.V (CX) being today's materials & construction industry laggard.

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