KB Home Stock Forecast - Double Exponential Smoothing

KBH Stock  USD 57.95  0.39  0.68%   
KBH Stock outlook is based on your current time horizon. We recommend always using this module together with an analysis of KB Home's historical fundamentals, such as revenue growth or operating cash flow patterns.
As of 29th of January 2026, the relative strength index (RSI) of KB Home's share price is approaching 45. This indicates that the stock is in nutural position, most likellhy at or near its support level. The main point of RSI analysis is to track how fast people are buying or selling KB Home, making its price go up or down.

Momentum 45

 Impartial

 
Oversold
 
Overbought
The successful prediction of KB Home's future price could yield a significant profit. We analyze noise-free headlines and recent hype associated with KB Home, which may create opportunities for some arbitrage if properly timed. Below are the key fundamental drivers impacting KB Home's stock price prediction:
Quarterly Earnings Growth
(0.38)
EPS Estimate Current Year
4.2021
EPS Estimate Next Year
5.5244
Wall Street Target Price
61.1818
EPS Estimate Current Quarter
1.7929
Using KB Home hype-based prediction, you can estimate the value of KB Home from the perspective of KB Home response to recently generated media hype and the effects of current headlines on its competitors. We also analyze overall investor sentiment towards KB Home using KB Home's stock options and short interest. It helps to benchmark the overall future attitude of investors towards KBH using crowd psychology based on the activity and movement of KB Home's stock price.

KB Home Short Interest

A significant increase or decrease in KB Home's short interest from the previous month could be a good indicator of investor sentiment towards KBH. Short interest can provide insight into the potential direction of KB Home stock and how bullish or bearish investors feel about the market overall.
200 Day MA
58.6342
Short Percent
0.1257
Short Ratio
3.33
Shares Short Prior Month
6.4 M
50 Day MA
60.6752

KBH Relative Strength Index

The Double Exponential Smoothing forecasted value of KB Home on the next trading day is expected to be 57.71 with a mean absolute deviation of 1.09 and the sum of the absolute errors of 64.08.

KB Home Hype to Price Pattern

Investor biases related to KB Home's public news can be used to forecast risks associated with an investment in KBH. The trend in average sentiment can be used to explain how an investor holding KBH can time the market purely based on public headlines and social activities around KB Home. Please note that most equities that are difficult to arbitrage are affected by market sentiment the most.
Some investors profit by finding stocks that are overvalued or undervalued based on market sentiment. The correlation of KB Home's market sentiment to its price can help taders to make decisions based on the overall investors consensus about KB Home.

KB Home Implied Volatility

    
  0.44  
KB Home's implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of KB Home stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if KB Home's implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that KB Home stock will not fluctuate a lot when KB Home's options are near their expiration.
The Double Exponential Smoothing forecasted value of KB Home on the next trading day is expected to be 57.71 with a mean absolute deviation of 1.09 and the sum of the absolute errors of 64.08.

KB Home after-hype prediction price

    
  USD 58.05  
There is no one specific way to measure market sentiment using hype analysis or a similar predictive technique. This prediction method should be used in combination with more fundamental and traditional techniques such as stock price forecasting, technical analysis, analysts consensus, earnings estimates, and various momentum models.
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of KB Home to cross-verify your projections.
For more detail on how to invest in KBH Stock please use our How to Invest in KB Home guide.

Prediction based on Rule 16 of the current KBH contract

Based on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that KB Home will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0275% per day over the life of the 2026-04-17 option contract. With KB Home trading at USD 57.95, that is roughly USD 0.0159 . If you think that the market is fully incorporating KB Home's daily price movement you should consider acquiring KB Home options at the current volatility level of 0.44%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.

Open Interest Against 2026-04-17 KBH Option Contracts

Although open interest is a measure utilized in the options markets, it could be used to forecast KB Home's spot prices because the number of available contracts in the market changes daily, and new contracts can be created or liquidated at will. Since open interest in KB Home's options reflects these daily shifts, investors could use the patterns of these changes to develop long and short-term trading strategies for KB Home stock based on available contracts left at the end of a trading day.
Please note that to derive more accurate forecasting about market movement from the current KB Home's open interest, investors have to compare it to KB Home's spot prices. As Ford's stock price increases, high open interest indicates that money is entering the market, and the market is strongly bullish. Conversely, if the price of KB Home is decreasing and there is high open interest, that is a sign that the bearish trend will continue, and investors may react by taking short positions in KBH. So, decreasing or low open interest during a bull market indicates that investors are becoming uncertain of the depth of the bullish trend, and a reversal in sentiment will likely follow.

KB Home Additional Predictive Modules

Most predictive techniques to examine KBH price help traders to determine how to time the market. We provide a combination of tools to recognize potential entry and exit points for KBH using various technical indicators. When you analyze KBH charts, please remember that the event formation may indicate an entry point for a short seller, and look at other indicators across different periods to confirm that a breakdown or reversion is likely to occur.
Double exponential smoothing - also known as Holt exponential smoothing is a refinement of the popular simple exponential smoothing model with an additional trending component. Double exponential smoothing model for KB Home works best with periods where there are trends or seasonality.

KB Home Double Exponential Smoothing Price Forecast For the 30th of January

Given 90 days horizon, the Double Exponential Smoothing forecasted value of KB Home on the next trading day is expected to be 57.71 with a mean absolute deviation of 1.09, mean absolute percentage error of 2.23, and the sum of the absolute errors of 64.08.
Please note that although there have been many attempts to predict KBH Stock prices using its time series forecasting, we generally do not recommend using it to place bets in the real market. The most commonly used models for forecasting predictions are the autoregressive models, which specify that KB Home's next future price depends linearly on its previous prices and some stochastic term (i.e., imperfectly predictable multiplier).

KB Home Stock Forecast Pattern

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KB Home Forecasted Value

In the context of forecasting KB Home's Stock value on the next trading day, we examine the predictive performance of the model to find good statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios. KB Home's downside and upside margins for the forecasting period are 55.40 and 60.02, respectively. We have considered KB Home's daily market price to evaluate the above model's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that traditional linear or nonlinear forecasting models outperform artificial intelligence and frequency domain models to provide accurate forecasts consistently.
Market Value
57.95
57.71
Expected Value
60.02
Upside

Model Predictive Factors

The below table displays some essential indicators generated by the model showing the Double Exponential Smoothing forecasting method's relative quality and the estimations of the prediction error of KB Home stock data series using in forecasting. Note that when a statistical model is used to represent KB Home stock, the representation will rarely be exact; so some information will be lost using the model to explain the process. AIC estimates the relative amount of information lost by a given model: the less information a model loses, the higher its quality.
AICAkaike Information CriteriaHuge
BiasArithmetic mean of the errors -0.1394
MADMean absolute deviation1.0862
MAPEMean absolute percentage error0.0179
SAESum of the absolute errors64.0835
When KB Home prices exhibit either an increasing or decreasing trend over time, simple exponential smoothing forecasts tend to lag behind observations. Double exponential smoothing is designed to address this type of data series by taking into account any KB Home trend in the prices. So in double exponential smoothing past observations are given exponentially smaller weights as the observations get older. In other words, recent KB Home observations are given relatively more weight in forecasting than the older observations.

Predictive Modules for KB Home

There are currently many different techniques concerning forecasting the market as a whole, as well as predicting future values of individual securities such as KB Home. Regardless of method or technology, however, to accurately forecast the stock market is more a matter of luck rather than a particular technique. Nevertheless, trying to predict the stock market accurately is still an essential part of the overall investment decision process. Using different forecasting techniques and comparing the results might improve your chances of accuracy even though unexpected events may often change the market sentiment and impact your forecasting results.
Hype
Prediction
LowEstimatedHigh
55.7458.0560.36
Details
Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
57.9160.2262.53
Details
Bollinger
Band Projection (param)
LowMiddleHigh
54.6858.9463.20
Details
14 Analysts
Consensus
LowTargetHigh
55.6861.1867.91
Details
Please note, it is not enough to conduct a financial or market analysis of a single entity such as KB Home. Your research has to be compared to or analyzed against KB Home's peers to derive any actionable benefits. When done correctly, KB Home's competitive analysis will give you plenty of quantitative and qualitative data to validate your investment decisions or develop an entirely new strategy toward taking a position in KB Home.

KB Home After-Hype Price Density Analysis

As far as predicting the price of KB Home at your current risk attitude, this probability distribution graph shows the chance that the prediction will fall between or within a specific range. We use this chart to confirm that your returns on investing in KB Home or, for that matter, your successful expectations of its future price, cannot be replicated consistently. Please note, a large amount of money has been lost over the years by many investors who confused the symmetrical distributions of Stock prices, such as prices of KB Home, with the unreliable approximations that try to describe financial returns.
   Next price density   
       Expected price to next headline  

KB Home Estimiated After-Hype Price Volatility

In the context of predicting KB Home's stock value on the day after the next significant headline, we show statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios based on KB Home's historical news coverage. KB Home's after-hype downside and upside margins for the prediction period are 55.74 and 60.36, respectively. We have considered KB Home's daily market price in relation to the headlines to evaluate this method's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that news-based prediction models outperform traditional linear, nonlinear models or artificial intelligence models to provide accurate predictions consistently.
Current Value
57.95
58.05
After-hype Price
60.36
Upside
KB Home is very steady at this time. Analysis and calculation of next after-hype price of KB Home is based on 3 months time horizon.

KB Home Stock Price Outlook Analysis

Have you ever been surprised when a price of a Company such as KB Home is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading KB Home backward and forwards among themselves. Have you ever observed a lot of a particular company's price movement is driven by press releases or news about the company that has nothing to do with actual earnings? Usually, hype to individual companies acts as price momentum. If not enough favorable publicity is forthcoming, the Stock price eventually runs out of speed. So, the rule of thumb here is that as long as this news hype has nothing to do with immediate earnings, you should pay more attention to it. If you see this tendency with KB Home, there might be something going there, and it might present an excellent short sale opportunity.
Expected ReturnPeriod VolatilityHype ElasticityRelated ElasticityNews DensityRelated DensityExpected Hype
  0.09 
2.31
  0.10 
  0.01 
9 Events / Month
7 Events / Month
In about 9 days
Latest traded priceExpected after-news pricePotential return on next major newsAverage after-hype volatility
57.95
58.05
0.17 
213.89  
Notes

KB Home Hype Timeline

On the 29th of January KB Home is traded for 57.95. The entity has historical hype elasticity of 0.1, and average elasticity to hype of competition of 0.01. KBH is forecasted to increase in value after the next headline, with the price projected to jump to 58.05 or above. The average volatility of media hype impact on the company the price is over 100%. The price growth on the next news is projected to be 0.17%, whereas the daily expected return is now at -0.09%. The volatility of related hype on KB Home is about 1509.8%, with the expected price after the next announcement by competition of 57.96. The company reported the last year's revenue of 6.24 B. Total Income to common stockholders was 428.79 M with profit before taxes, overhead, and interest of 1.22 B. Considering the 90-day investment horizon the next forecasted press release will be in about 9 days.
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of KB Home to cross-verify your projections.
For more detail on how to invest in KBH Stock please use our How to Invest in KB Home guide.

KB Home Related Hype Analysis

Having access to credible news sources related to KB Home's direct competition is more important than ever and may enhance your ability to predict KB Home's future price movements. Getting to know how KB Home's peers react to changing market sentiment, related social signals, and mainstream news is a great way to find investing opportunities and time the market. The summary table below summarizes the essential lagging indicators that can help you analyze how KB Home may potentially react to the hype associated with one of its peers.
Hype
Elasticity
News
Density
Semi
Deviation
Information
Ratio
Potential
Upside
Value
At Risk
Maximum
Drawdown
MTHMeritage 5.54 10 per month 0.00 (0.04) 3.46 (2.97) 13.79 
CVCOCavco Industries(8.77)11 per month 2.56  0.01  4.83 (3.02) 9.67 
MHOMI Homes 0.91 8 per month 1.81 (0.02) 4.51 (3.54) 10.17 
SKYSkyline 0.07 9 per month 2.28  0.03  4.86 (3.90) 14.88 
TMHCTaylor Morn Home(0.01)9 per month 1.37 (0.03) 3.92 (2.69) 10.34 
GRBKGreen Brick Partners 1.19 5 per month 1.55 (0.02) 4.56 (3.08) 10.63 
TPHTRI Pointe Homes(0.10)11 per month 1.59 (0.03) 5.16 (2.65) 11.56 
ABGAsbury Automotive Group(2.47)8 per month 1.70 (0.02) 3.65 (2.56) 10.40 
TNLTravel Leisure Co 1.28 13 per month 1.40  0.03  2.77 (2.43) 8.90 
CHHChoice Hotels International 3.89 10 per month 1.88 (0.01) 4.35 (3.41) 10.13 

Other Forecasting Options for KB Home

For every potential investor in KBH, whether a beginner or expert, KB Home's price movement is the inherent factor that sparks whether it is viable to invest in it or hold it better. KBH Stock price charts are filled with many 'noises.' These noises can hugely alter the decision one can make regarding investing in KBH. Basic forecasting techniques help filter out the noise by identifying KB Home's price trends.

KB Home Related Equities

One of the popular trading techniques among algorithmic traders is to use market-neutral strategies where every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if one position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Below are some of the equities that can be combined with KB Home stock to make a market-neutral strategy. Peer analysis of KB Home could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing KB Home by comparing valuation metrics with similar companies.
 Risk & Return  Correlation

KB Home Market Strength Events

Market strength indicators help investors to evaluate how KB Home stock reacts to ongoing and evolving market conditions. The investors can use it to make informed decisions about market timing, and determine when trading KB Home shares will generate the highest return on investment. By undertsting and applying KB Home stock market strength indicators, traders can identify KB Home entry and exit signals to maximize returns.

KB Home Risk Indicators

The analysis of KB Home's basic risk indicators is one of the essential steps in accurately forecasting its future price. The process involves identifying the amount of risk involved in KB Home's investment and either accepting that risk or mitigating it. Along with some essential techniques for forecasting kbh stock prices, we also provide a set of basic risk indicators that can assist in the individual investment decision or help in hedging the risk of your existing portfolios.
Please note, the risk measures we provide can be used independently or collectively to perform a risk assessment. When comparing two potential investments, we recommend comparing similar equities with homogenous growth potential and valuation from related markets to determine which investment holds the most risk.

Story Coverage note for KB Home

The number of cover stories for KB Home depends on current market conditions and KB Home's risk-adjusted performance over time. The coverage that generates the most noise at a given time depends on the prevailing investment theme that KB Home is classified under. However, while its typical story may have numerous social followers, the rapid visibility can also attract short-sellers, who usually are skeptical about KB Home's long-term prospects. So, having above-average coverage will typically attract above-average short interest, leading to significant price volatility.

KB Home Short Properties

KB Home's future price predictability will typically decrease when KB Home's long traders begin to feel the short-sellers pressure to drive the price lower. The predictive aspect of KB Home often depends not only on the future outlook of the potential KB Home's investors but also on the ongoing dynamics between investors with different trading styles. Because the market risk indicators may have small false signals, it is better to identify suitable times to hedge a portfolio using different long/short signals. KB Home's indicators that are reflective of the short sentiment are summarized in the table below.
Common Stock Shares Outstanding69.3 M
Cash And Short Term Investments230.4 M
When determining whether KB Home offers a strong return on investment in its stock, a comprehensive analysis is essential. The process typically begins with a thorough review of KB Home's financial statements, including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements, to assess its financial health. Key financial ratios are used to gauge profitability, efficiency, and growth potential of Kb Home Stock. Outlined below are crucial reports that will aid in making a well-informed decision on Kb Home Stock:
Check out Historical Fundamental Analysis of KB Home to cross-verify your projections.
For more detail on how to invest in KBH Stock please use our How to Invest in KB Home guide.
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Is there potential for Household Durables market expansion? Will KBH introduce new products? Factors like these will boost the valuation of KB Home. Expected growth trajectory for KBH significantly influences the price investors are willing to assign. Understanding fair value requires weighing current performance against future potential. All the valuation information about KB Home listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth
(0.38)
Dividend Share
1
Earnings Share
6.15
Revenue Per Share
91.837
Quarterly Revenue Growth
(0.15)
KB Home's market price often diverges from its book value, the accounting figure shown on KBH's balance sheet. Smart investors calculate KB Home's intrinsic value—its true economic worth—which may differ significantly from both market price and book value. Analysts utilize numerous techniques to assess fundamental value, seeking to purchase shares when trading prices fall beneath estimated intrinsic worth. Since KB Home's trading price responds to investor sentiment, macroeconomic conditions, and market psychology, it can swing far from fundamental value.
Understanding that KB Home's value differs from its trading price is crucial, as each reflects different aspects of the company. Evaluating whether KB Home represents a sound investment requires analyzing earnings trends, revenue growth, technical signals, industry dynamics, and expert forecasts. However, KB Home's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.