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

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Hovnanian (HOV) pushed the Materials & Construction industry lower today making it today's featured Materials & Construction laggard. The industry as a whole was unchanged today. By the end of trading, Hovnanian fell 20 cents (-3.1%) to $6.27 on average volume. Throughout the day, 9.9 million shares of Hovnanian exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 10.3 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $6.21-$6.59 after having opened the day at $6.50 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $6.47. Other companies within the Materials & Construction industry that declined today were: India Globalization Capital (IGC), down 9.6%, Goldfield (GV), down 9.6%, Tri-Tech (TRIT), down 7.7%, and Sharps Compliance Corporation (SMED), down 7.3%.

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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 $747.8 million and is part of the industrial goods sector. Shares are down 10.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are no analysts that rate Hovnanian a buy, two analysts rate it a sell, and four 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 positive front, Cementos Pacasmayo SAA ADR (CPAC), up 4.8%, Patrick Industries (PATK), up 4.4%, CRH (CRH), up 4.3%, and Tutor Perini (TPC), up 3.1%, were all gainers within the materials & construction industry with Eagle Materials (EXP) being today's featured materials & construction industry leader.

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