What To Expect From KB Home’s (KBH) Q1 Earnings

Homebuilder KB Home (NYSE:KBH) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday afternoon. Here’s what to expect.

KB Home beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.69 billion, down 15.3% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.

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This quarter, the market is expecting KB Home’s revenue to decline 21.2% year on year, a further deceleration from the 5.2% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. KB Home rarely misses Wall Street’s revenue estimates.

Looking at KB Home’s peers in the industrials segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Lennar’s revenues decreased 13.3% year on year, missing analysts’ expectations by 4.5%, and FedEx reported revenues up 8.3%, topping estimates by 2.1%. Lennar traded up 2.6% following the results while FedEx’s stock price was unchanged.

Read our full analysis of Lennar’s results here and FedEx’s results here.

Debates around the economy’s health and the impact of potential tariffs and corporate tax cuts have caused much uncertainty in 2025. While some of the industrials stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 11.4% on average over the last month. KB Home is down 20.3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $61.42 (compared to the current share price of $51.29).

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