SPDR Homebuilders ETF

NYSE ARCA: XHB
$121.34
-$1.62 (-1.3%)
Closing Price on October 4, 2024

XHB Articles

We won’t bother telling you about the homebuilder merger this morning, because we already covered it once.  But in a down and out sector, you will see that traders are looking to see if there will...
Pulte Homes, Inc. (NYSE: PHM) is acquiring Centex Corporation (NYSE: CTX) in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at $3.1 billion, including $1.8 billion of net debt.  The deal has been unanimously...
There was another positive number on new home sales data for the month of February.  It looks like new home sales came in UP 4.7% at 337,000 annualized units.  The SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF...
You probably already figured that the increase in existing home sales was due to foreclosure, pre-foreclosure, and other distressed sales.  Today, Ryland Group Inc. (NYSE: RYL) had an interesting...
Standard Pacific Corp. (NYSE: SPF) is doing something some might not expect out of a homebuilder.  It filed to raise up to $600 million by issuing securities and debt to fund the development or...
If you have been watching homebuilders of late, you’ll notice a sharp disconnect between the headlines still coming out and the stock prices of many homebuilders.  The move today is partly...
Everyone knew homebuilders would turn one day and when they turned it would be fast and in a flurry of buying volume.  Much of this may attributed to short covering, but much is because the good old...
Everyone keeps predicting one or more of the large US Homebuilders is going to implode because of their overbuilding and inability to sell new units at their old highly profitable margins.  Most of...
Lennar Corp. (NYSE:LEN) is set to report earnings on Tuesday, September 25, 2007.  If you can find any great positive calls ahead of this it is only from an analyst named Pangloss.  If the actual...
Stock Tickers: CTX, DHI, KBH, LEN, RYL, MHO, BECN, BLDR, MAS, XHB After a mid-day review of 52-week lows, there was one obvious group that makes this list now more frequently than it does not:...
This morning we saw earnings out of some of the key homebuilder stocks.  These numbers are almost immaterial as they are sloppy and results are all over the place and as no one is positive on these...
There have been market rumors today that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway could be buying a stake in Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. (NYSE:HOV).  The truth is that anything is possible, particularly...
Lennar Corp. (LEN-NYSE) reports earnings on Tuesday.  The company is expected to post a sharp drop-off after the company had already withdrawn guidance.  FirstCall has estimates at $0.05 EPS on...
DJIA                                  13,352.05; (-8.21; -0.06%)S&P500                            1,497.74 (-4.82; -0.32%)NASDAQ                ...
Stock Tickers: XHB, DHI, LEN, PHM, CTX, TOL, NVR, KBH, MDC, RYL, SPF, BZH, HOV This can’t be a shock considering ‘how great’ the housing market is and how many new homes are selling in the...