Consumer Discretionary / Residential ConstructionUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

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Fair value pending

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Market cap

639.7M

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Market data

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/En/a

P25 11.5P50 15.8P75 23.1

Trailing P/E16.7

P25 13.1P50 20.6P75 33.1

ROE6.9

P25 -21.1P50 4.5P75 16.1

ROIC4.8

P25 -4.5P50 5.2P75 12.8

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Indicator catalog

All HOV market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

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Currency

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Showing 255 of 255 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000357294
Company name	Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc.
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	442487401
Employees	1,891
Employees Change	13%
Employees Change Percent	0.69
Enterprise value	$1.3B
Exchange	NYSE
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Residential Construction
Isin	US4424874018
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$639.7M
Market cap category	Small-Cap
Price	$108
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	1,553,098.89x
Sector	Consumer Discretionary
Sic	1531
Symbol	HOV
Website	https://www.khov.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	6.9%
EV Earnings	30.37x
EV Sales Forward	0.66x
EV/EBIT	13.31x
EV/EBITDA	11.6x
EV/FCF	3.74x
EV/Sales	0.46x
FCF yield	55.94%
P/B ratio	0.91x
P/E ratio	16.75x
P/S ratio	0.22x
PE Ratio10 Y	28.99x
PE Ratio3 Y	5.91x
PE Ratio5 Y	4.11x
PS Forward	0.31x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	3.43%
EBITDA Margin	3.93%
FCF margin	12.19%
Gross margin	15.16%
Gross Profit	$445.2M
Gross Profit Growth	-25.27%
Gross Profit Growth Q	-13.99%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	-11.6%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	1.24%
Net Income	$44.1M
Net Income Growth	-77.05%
Net Income Growth Q	-26.01%
Net Income Growth Years	0%
Net Income Growth3 Y	-38.52%
Net Income Growth5 Y	-9.53%
Pretax Margin	2.55%
Profit Margin	1.92%
Profit Per Employee	$23,331
Profitable Years	6
ROA	2.39
Roa5y	6.58
ROCE	4.48
ROE	6.86
ROIC	4.83
Roic5y	14.39

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	10.7%
Cagr15y	2.72%
Cagr1y	8.27%
Cagr20y	-10.16%
Cagr3y	12.91%
Cagr5y	-3.83%
EPS Growth	-80.13
EPS Growth Q	-26.82
EPS Growth Years	0
EPS Growth3 Y	-38.93
EPS Growth5 Y	-10.17
FCF Growth	780.07%
FCF Growth3 Y	30.76%
FCF Growth5 Y	16.38%
OCF Growth	578.31%
OCF Growth3 Y	30.33%
OCF Growth5 Y	17.61%
Revenue Growth	-4.78x
Revenue Growth Q	-6.19x
Revenue Growth Years	0x
Revenue Growth3 Y	0.74x
Revenue Growth5 Y	3.91x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$1.12
Assets	$2.7B
Cash	$339.9M
Current Assets	$2.2B
Current Liabilities	$489.2M
Debt	$1B
Debt EBITDA	$8.2
Debt Equity	$1.24
Debt FCF	$2.91
Equity	$837.6M
Interest Coverage	2.64
Liabilities	$1.9B
Long Term Assets	$499.7M
Long Term Liabilities	$1.4B
Net Cash	$-700.3M
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-109
Net Debt EBITDA	$6.06
Net Debt Equity	$0.84
Net Debt FCF	$1.96
Tangible Book Value	$668.7M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$113
WACC	7.24

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	4.57
Inventory Turnover	1.47
Net Working Capital	$1.4B
Quick ratio	0.79
Working Capital	$1.7B
Working Capital Turnover	$1.77

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	2.54%
Dividend Yield	0%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	176.23%
1Y total return	8.26%
200-day SMA	121.9
3Y total return	43.95%
50-day SMA	111.3
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50under200
5Y total return	-17.74%
All Time High	1,835
All Time High Change	-94.13%
All Time High Date	2005-07-20
All Time Low	5.12
All Time Low Change	2,004.1%
All Time Low Date	2020-03-18
ATR	5.93
Beta	1.87
Beta1y	2.03
Beta2y	1.32
Ch YTD	10.45
High	110.7
High52	162.1
High52 Date	2025-09-17
High52ch	-33.52%
Low	105.7
Low52	85.69
Low52 Date	2025-06-02
Low52ch	25.72%
Ma50ch	-3.22%
Price vs 200-day SMA	-11.6%
RSI	45.61
RSI Monthly	46.72
RSI Weekly	45.08
Sharpe ratio	0.39x
Sortino ratio	0.65
Total Return	2.54%
Tr YTD	10.45
Tr15y	49.63%
Tr1m	1.36%
Tr1w	-2.47%
Tr3m	-14.42%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	2
Analyst Count Top	1
Analyst Price Target Top	$120
Analyst Ratings	Sell
Analyst Ratings Top	Hold
Earnings EPS Estimate	$-1.69
Earnings Revenue Estimate	626,400,000x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	-8.75x
Operating Income	$100.7M
Operating Income Growth	-60
Operating Income Growth Q	-30.13
Operating Income Growth3 Y	-33.66
Operating Income Growth5 Y	-10.19
Operating margin	3.43
Price target	$97
Price Target Change	$-9.96
Price Target Change Top	$11.39

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	4,784,704%
Float Percent	80.58%
Net Borrowing	-24,050,000
Shares Insiders	19.42%
Shares Institutions	55.48%
Shares Out	5,938,194
Shares Qo Q	7.45%
Shares Yo Y	-2.54%
Short Float	7.03%
Short Ratio	2.8
Short Shares	5.66

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$343.3M
Average Volume	108,990.05x
Bv Per Share	118
CAPEX	$-27.2M
Ch10y	176.2
Ch15y	49.63
Ch1m	1.36
Ch1w	-2.47
Ch1y	8.26
Ch20y	-88.28
Ch3m	-14.42
Ch3y	43.95
Ch5y	-17.74
Ch6m	-11.47
Change	-0.51%
Change From Open	-1.49
Close	108.3
Days Gap	1
Depreciation Amortization	14,836,000
Dollar Volume	10,373,752.6
Earnings Date	2026-05-21
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$100.7M
EBITDA	$115.5M
EPS	$6.43
F Score	6
FCF	$357.9M
FCF EV Yield	26.71x
FCF Per Share	$60.26
Financing CF	-81,436,000
Fiscal Year End	October
Founded	1,959
Goodwill	31,705,000
Graham Number	130.65716
Graham Upside	21.28
Income Tax	$18.4M
Investing CF	-70,062,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-02-25
Last Report Date	2026-01-31
Last Split Date	2019-03-29
Last Split Type	Reverse
Last10k Filing Date	2025-12-22
Lynch Fair Value	$32.16
Lynch Upside	-70.15
Ma150	116.1
Ma150ch	-7.2%
Ma20	112.3
Ma20ch	-4.03%
Net CF	233,546,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-05-21
Open	109.4
Optionable	No
P FCF Ratio	1.79
P OCF Ratio	1.66
Position In Range	40.95
Ppne	91,198,000
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$5.54
Ptbv Ratio	0.96
Relative Volume	0.88x
Revenue	2,936,910,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.5x
Share Based Comp	14,601,000
Tax By Revenue	0.63x
Tax Rate	24.55%
Tr20y	-88.28%
Tr6m	-11.47%
Us State	New Jersey
Volume	96,294
Z Score	2.25

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Next action

Research pending

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Income

Does HOV pay a dividend?

Capital-return profile for this ticker.

Performance

HOV stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns HOV?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+55.5%

Float: +80.6% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+19.4%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

HOV momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

45.6

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

-11.6%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

1.87

More volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

0.39

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

HOV vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
ABNB	Airbnb Inc.	84B	34.7x	6.6x	15.9%	+29.9%	+14.9%	持有
AMZN	Amazon.com Inc.	2.9T	32.6x	3.9x	13.5%	+12.1%	+44.5%	减持
BKNG	Booking Holdings Inc.	128.6B	21.8x	4.6x	57.9%	+37.4%	-19.6%	买入

Questions

About HOV

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What is the current HOV stock rating?

Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. is currently shown with the latest rating in the latest report. The hub links directly to the full analysis surface where the rating, fair-value bridge, risks, and scorecard are documented together.

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