Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc (NYSE:HOV) price on Thursday, July 03, fall -3.48% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $113.33.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $117.41, moving within a range at $111.84 and $117.55. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 2.128 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 4.01. Turning to its 52-week performance, $240.34 and $81.15 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, HOV moved 23.82% over the past month.
Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $635.00 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-20.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that HOV is a Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
1 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 1 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 0 recommend HOV as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Hold which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
HOV’s current price about 11.60% and 13.69% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 60.64, while 7-day volatility ratio is 8.03% and 6.83% in the 30-day chart. Further, Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc (HOV) has a beta value of 2.18.
If we refocus on Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc (NYSE:HOV), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 0.3 over the past 10 days and 128.11K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 5.07 million shares.
The 24.86% of Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 56.45% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 0.23 million on 2025-06-13, giving us a short ratio of 2.35. The data shows that as of 2025-06-13 short interest in Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc (HOV) stood at 496.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 0.21 million registered in 2025-05-15. Current price change has pushed the stock -18.30% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the HOV stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
