Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. (HOV): Price and Financial Metrics

HOV POWR Grades

• Momentum is the dimension where HOV ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 99.98% of US stocks.
• HOV's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving down over the last 26 weeks.
• HOV ranks lowest in Stability; there it ranks in the 12th percentile.

HOV Stock Summary

• With a price/earnings ratio of 4.57, HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES INC P/E ratio is greater than that of about only 4.43% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• The price/operating cash flow metric for HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES INC is higher than only 5.95% of stocks in our set with a positive cash flow.
• Of note is the ratio of HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 98.81% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES INC, a group of peers worth examining would be HEES, GBX, DXPE, SON, and DFH.
• Visit HOV's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.khov.com.

HOV Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Cyclical stock, HOV's EV/EBIT ratio is 62.75% lower, now standing at 5.7.
• Over the past 243 months, HOV's price/sales ratio has gone down 0.5.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for HOV.

HOV Growth Metrics

Its 2 year price growth rate is now at 130.41%.
• The 4 year price growth rate now stands at -54.72%.
• Its year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -67.69%.

Over the past 33 months, HOV's revenue has gone up $791,853,000.

The table below shows HOV's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	2,922.231	89.466	214.815
2022-06-30	2,849.791	99.344	214.33
2022-03-31	2,772.881	132.55	182.087
2021-12-31	2,773.506	188.543	610.997
2021-09-30	2,782.857	210.213	607.817
2021-06-30	2,651.867	182.266	595.971

HOV's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• HOV has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 60.31% of graded US stocks.
• HOV's asset turnover comes in at 1.274 -- ranking 25th of 51 Construction stocks.
• ESOA, MTRX, and EME are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with HOV.

The table below shows HOV's key quality metrics over time.