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The past year was a relatively good year for KB Home investors

The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a good period for the investors. The stock gained almost 37 percent. Over the past 5 years KB Home' stock rose at around 138 percent in value. KB Home's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were very volatile through the time and moved between 1,56 billion dollars and 3,03 billion dollars. KB Home's net results between 2011 and 2015 were far from constant and moved between -178,77 million dollars and 84,64 million dollars.

The core activities of KB Home are in the construction/infrastructure sector. The period from 2006 till the end of 2016 the international sector gained around 13 percent. Measured since 2011 the sector is 46 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-2016) there is a minus of 13 percent.

The American company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. Over the past 5 years KB Home's dividend yield was at around 0,69 percent per year.

KB Home financed with relatively low debt

At the end of 2015 the American company had a balance sheet of 5,02 billion dollars. 3,32 billion dollars (66,29 percent of the total balance sheet) was financed by debt. At the end of 2016 the American company was traded with a price/earnings-ratio of around 18. So investors paid 18 times the company's 2015's EPS. We could say that based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the market capitalization (the number of shares outstanding multiplied by the stock price) of the construction/infrastructure company equaled around 1,11 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 around 92,05 million stocks were listed.

All KB Home's annual reports can be found here. More information about KB Home can be found it's website. .