KB Home is a homebuilding company. Co. builds a variety of homes designed primarily for first-time and first move-up, as well as second move-up and active adult homebuyers, including attached and detached single-family residential homes, townhomes and condominiums. Co. provides homes in development communities, at urban in-fill locations and as part of mixed-use projects. Co.'s financial services operations provide various insurance products in the markets where it builds homes and provide title services in certain of those markets. Co.'s financial services operations also provide mortgage banking services, including residential consumer mortgage loan originations, to its homebuyers. We show 56 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our KBH shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute KBH market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing KBH market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing KBH's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of KBH versus a peer is one thing; comparing
KBH market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like KBH can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching KBH by allowing them to research the KBH market cap history. |
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