KB Home (KBH): Today's Featured Industrial Goods Laggard
(
) pushed the Industrial Goods sector lower today making it today's featured Industrial Goods laggard. The sector as a whole closed the day up 1.4%. By the end of trading, KB Home fell $0.62 (-3.2%) to $19.01 on average volume. Throughout the day, 5,134,426 shares of KB Home exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 4,475,800 shares. The stock ranged in price between $18.98-$20.11 after having opened the day at $19.76 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $19.63. Other companies within the Industrial Goods sector that declined today were:
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), down 6.0%,
Industrial Services of America
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), down 5.9%,
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), down 4.8% and
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), down 4.4%.
KB Home operates as a homebuilding and financial services company in the United States. The company constructs and sells various homes, including attached and detached single-family residential homes, townhomes, and condominiums primarily for first-time, move-up, and active adult homebuyers. KB Home has a market cap of $1.6 billion and is part of the materials & construction industry. Shares are up 24.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 3 analysts that rate KB Home a buy, 2 analysts rate it a sell, and 12 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
KB Home
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, solid stock price performance and impressive record of earnings per share growth. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that the company has favored debt over equity in the management of its balance sheet.
- You can view the full KB Home Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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), up 44.0%,
Perma-Fix Environmental Services
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), up 25.0%,
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), up 20.8% and
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), up 10.6% , were all gainers within the industrial goods sector with
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) being today's featured industrial goods sector leader.
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) while those bearish on the industrial goods sector could consider
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).
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