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Avg Daily Volume: 1,740,919 Market Cap: 1.70B
Sector: Services Short Interest: 2.61
EARNINGS EXPECTATIONS:
THIS QTR: EPS: .10/share REV: 1,778/M
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LAST QTR: EPS: .29/share ACTUAL: .25share (MISS)
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NEXT QTR: EPS: .05/share REV: 1,820/M
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FULL YR: EPS: .48/share REV: 7,020/M
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*These are the base metrics we will be watching against the actual release numbers
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BEAT/MISS RECORD: –% OF THE TIME THEY BEAT ESTIMATES
PRIOR ‘JUMP ZONE’ MOVES (LAST 3 QTRS %) -13.59, 9.11, 12.55
EXPECTED JUMP MOVE: 10-15%
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Links To Latest News and Headlines
Shares of homebuilders and building products firms are tumbling after the Census Bureau’s tally of housing starts showed a big decline in March. Housing starts fell 14.7% from February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.47 million, a bad sign heading into the spring building season that suggests mortgage rates’ recent climb toward 7% is taking a toll on demand. It has been a sharp reversal for shares of homebuilders and companies that manufacture and distribute building products.
IRVING, Texas, April 09, 2024–Builders FirstSource, Inc. (NYSE: BLDR) (“Builders FirstSource” or the “Company”) will host a conference call and webcast on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, to discuss the Company’s financial results and other business matters. The teleconference will begin at 8:00 a.m. Central Time and will be hosted by Dave Rush, Chief Executive Officer, and Peter Jackson, Chief Financial Officer.
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Construction employment continues to boom, adding 39,000 jobs last month and 270,000 since March 2023, according to Labor Department data. When the Fed began hiking interest rates about two years ago, the central bank was searching for the magic number that would cool the red-hot housing market. The highest borrowing costs in decades prevented homeowners locked into cheap loans from moving and forced a lot of house hunters into new construction.
Wedbush Securities downgraded multiple homebuilding stocks including Lennar (LEN), D.R. Horton (DHI), and LGI Homes (LGIH), claiming they could see seasonal price declines. Despite the downgrade, they maintained their price targets for all five stocks. Wedbush Securities Equity Research SVP Jay McCanless — the analyst behind the call — joins Market Domination to break down the reasoning and take a look at the homebuilding sector and how it may play out going forward. In terms of which of the stocks he downgraded might stand above the rest, McCanless claims: “Not on the homebuilder side but we are favorable on the product side for a company called Builders FirstSource (BLDR). They are the market leader right now in terms of lumber and building product sales, and we think that unit volumes of single-family homes, whether for rent or for sale, are going to be up in ’24 versus ’23 and we think Builders FirstSource is positioned to meet that demand. We also think they’re going to be growing in the repair and remodel category which we have a favorable outlook for that space too.” For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Market Domination. Editor’s note: This article was written by Nicholas Jacobino
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