KB Home Stock Options
| KBH Stock | USD 53.91 2.09 3.73% |
KB Home's latest option contracts expiring on July 18th 2025 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.68. The total put volume is at 97.0. The KB Home option chain provides detailed quote and price information for the current KB Home option contracts. It shows all of KB Home's listed puts, calls, expiration dates, strike prices, and other pricing information.
In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on KB Home
Analyzing KB Home's in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in KB Home regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when KB Home's options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money KB Home's options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with KB Home's stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
KBH Current Options Market Mood
KB Home's open interest and total value indicators provide investors with the necessary information to digest the overall options buildup for its expiring contracts. In addition, it helps KBH Stock's traders understand whether a recent fall or rise in the market is unreasonable and if the time has come to take contrarian positions. These ratios are calculated based on options trading volumes and current open interest.
Put-to-Call Volume
Unfortunately, most KB Home's options investors are not very successful. KB Home's option open interest and volume spread between outstanding puts and calls are regarded by many investors as reliable indicators of the overall future market direction.
Rule 16 of the current KBH contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that KB Home will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0425% per day over the life of the 2025-07-18 option contract. With KB Home trading at USD 53.91, that is roughly USD 0.0229. If you think that the market is fully incorporating KB Home's daily price movement you should consider buying KB Home options at the current volatility level of 0.68%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
Purchasing KB Home options can give investors a meaningful hedge against losses and, therefore, could be used conservatively to decrease the volatility of your portfolio. However, many options could also amount to little more than gambling, significantly enhancing your overall portfolio risk. One simple example of these aggressive strategies is the sale of "uncovered" KBH calls. Remember, the seller must deliver KB Home stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.
KB Home Selling And Marketing Expenses Over Time
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KBH Total Stockholder Equity
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KB Home Corporate Directors
| Stuart Gabriel | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Thomas Gilligan | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Michael Wood | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Dorene Dominguez | Independent Director | Profile |
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Is Household Durables space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of KB Home. If investors know KBH will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about KB Home listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth (0.15) | Dividend Share 1 | Earnings Share 8.18 | Revenue Per Share | Quarterly Revenue Growth (0.05) |
The market value of KB Home is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of KBH that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of KB Home's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is KB Home's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because KB Home's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect KB Home's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between KB Home's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if KB Home is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, KB Home's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.