KB Home (KBH)

KB Home is trading at $56.95, up 5.52% on the session. The 50 day average sits at $56.44 and the 200 day at $n/a, which puts the stock in a mixed technical position. RSI is at 48, which reads as neutral, and MACD is bearish crossover. Volume is below average.

The nearest support is around $54.85 with resistance near $58.96, so that band frames the current range. Average daily movement is roughly $1.94, or about 3.4% of the share price, which is what any stop placement has to allow for. The overall health score of 49 out of 100 combines a trend score of 52, momentum of 40 and a risk score of 56.

KB Home operates as a homebuilding company in the United States. It builds and sells homes, including attached and detached single-family residential homes, townhomes, and condominiums primarily for first-time, first move-up, second move-up, and active adult homebuyers. The company also provides financial services, such as mortgage banking services, such as residential consumer mortgage loan originations to homebuyers; property and casualty insurance services, as well as earthquake, flood, and personal property insurance products to homebuyers; and title services. It conducts operations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, and Washington. The company was formerly known as Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation and changed its name to KB Home in January 2001. KB Home was founded in 1957 and is based in Los Angeles, California.