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Hovnanian Enterprises Inc Stock: price and insider trades · United States
Hovnanian Enterprises Inc: what insiders have been doing
Every trade that managers of Hovnanian Enterprises Inc disclose to SEC (Form 4) is tracked on this page. The company sits in the Construction sector and is based in Red Bank, United States. It was founded in 1959. Between 18 October 2025 and 18 October 2026, 8 insiders published 20 filings.
There is no open-market purchase to report; the filings show 3 sales worth €465k by 2 insiders. The totals exclude 2 filings filed without an amount. At €465k, the sale published on 17 December 2025 by Sorsby J Larry is the largest of the period (0.065% of market cap).
With 20 filings in twelve months, the company is more active than the median of 19 filings across the 5,810 companies we follow on the same exchange. Our records for Hovnanian Enterprises Inc go back to 2016, with no purchases and 44 sales on the open market in total. For the fiscal year to 31 October 2025, the annual 10-K puts revenue at 2.98 bn USD and net income at 63.9 m USD.
Between a trade and the moment it shows up on SEC (Form 4), the median delay is 2 days. For comparison, the SEC allows two business days to file a Form 4. A sale on its own says little: insiders also sell to pay tax, fund a purchase or diversify.
Elsewhere in the same sector, our signals recently picked up insider purchases at Lennar Corp /NEW/. Every figure here comes from the filings published by SEC (Form 4) and describes the past, not future prices; it is not investment advice.
Insider Decl.
185
Thresholds
n/a
Buy Volume
n/a
n/a
Sell Volume
€11M
44 ops. · all time
Who traded when
BuySaleRobin Stone Sellers3 sales
Ara K. Hovnanian2 sales
Edward A. Kangas2 sales
J. Larry Sorsby1 sale
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Fundamental score
Ranked 12,100 of 24,148 companies
51.5
score / 100
Value79
Quality24
FCF yld29%
Earn yld11%
EV/EBITDA11.1x
ROE2.1%
Gross mgn14%
Net mgn2.1%
Debt/EBITDA6.9x
Pillars2/3
Transparent value + quality ranking, distinct from the insider signal.
Financial data
as of FY 2025FY ended October 2025 · cache
US$104.01
Analyst consensus
1 analysts4.00/5
US$74.00Target US$74.00(-29%)US$74.00
Income statement
RevenueUS$3B
Gross profitUS$420.7M14% margin
EBITDAUS$135.4M5% margin
Net incomeUS$63.9M0.6% margin
Valuation
PER (trailing)100.0x
PER (forward)10.6x
P/Book0.9x
Beta1.82
Balance sheet & cash
Market capUS$609.5M
Total debtUS$930.2M
Free Cash FlowUS$166.2M
Debt / Equity131%
Profitability & ownership
ROE2.1%
ROA1.3%
% insiders10.2%
% institutions65.8%
Last declaration on 17 July 2026
Declarations185 total
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1,032.075 sharesClass A Common StockSEC:0001225208-26-006206:0
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12,880 sharesClass A Common StockSEC:0001225208-26-006151:0
12,880 shares@ US$131.78100.0% of flowClass A Common StockSEC144:0001193125-26-277940
1,078 sharesClass A Common StockSEC:0001225208-26-006091:0
534 sharesClass A Common StockSEC:0001225208-26-005918:0
2,130 shares0Class A Common StockSEC:0001225208-26-004701:0
1,280 shares0Class A Common StockSEC:0001225208-26-004701:1
2,130 shares0Class A Common StockSEC:0001225208-26-004701:2
1,280 shares0Class A Common StockSEC:0001225208-26-004701:3
1,223 shares@ US$112.89511.6% of flowClass A Common StockSEC:0001225208-26-004359:1
2,014 shares@ US$42.507.2% of flowClass A Common StockSEC:0001225208-26-004359:0
9,163 shares0Class A Common StockSEC:0001225208-25-010121:0
12,040 shares0Class A Common StockSEC:0001225208-25-010120:0
13,180 shares0Class A Common StockSEC:0001225208-25-010119:0
2,284 shares@ US$227.40150.065% mcap50.0% of flowClass A Common StockSEC:0001225208-25-010076:0
3,343 shares@ US$120.2348.7% of flowClass A Common StockSEC:0001225208-25-008920:0
5,525 shares@ US$120.2319.2% of flowClass A Common StockSEC:0001225208-25-008919:0
3,032 shares@ US$120.2380.5% of flowClass A Common StockSEC:0001225208-25-008921:0
50 shares0Class A Common StockSEC:0001225208-25-008633:0
609 shares@ US$138.30941.3% of flowClass A Common StockSEC:0001225208-25-007561:0
750 shares@ US$109.98767.2% of flowClass A Common StockSEC:0001225208-25-006618:0
5,500 shares@ US$107.12114.4% of flowClass A Common StockSEC:0001225208-25-006239:0
1,393 shares0Class A Common StockSEC:0001225208-25-006042:0
25 of 185 declarations
About Hovnanian Enterprises Inc
Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: HOV) is a U.S.-based residential homebuilder and real estate-related services company headquartered in Matawan, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1959 by Kevork Hovnanian, the company has grown into a nationally recognized homebuilder focused on designing, constructing, marketing, and selling new homes across multiple U.S. regions. For French-speaking investors in France, Belgium, and Switzerland, Hovnanian is best understood as a fairly pure-play exposure to the U.S. housing cycle, with earnings driven by demand for new homes, land availability, pricing discipline, and mortgage conditions.
The business is organized around two main operating pillars. First, homebuilding accounts for the vast majority of consolidated revenue and remains the core of the investment case. Second, the financial services segment provides mortgage loans and title services to homebuyers purchasing Hovnanian homes. The homebuilding platform is reported through three geographic divisions — Northeast, Southeast, and West — giving the company a broad but still regionally diversified footprint. According to its annual filing, Hovnanian offers homes in numerous communities across multiple states in the United States, serving first-time buyers, move-up buyers, luxury buyers, active-adult buyers, and empty nesters.
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From a competitive standpoint, Hovnanian operates in a fragmented but capital-intensive industry where success depends on land strategy, construction efficiency, product mix, and inventory management. It is smaller than the largest U.S. public homebuilders, but it has a long operating history and a recognizable national brand in the mid-sized homebuilder category. The company’s broad price range and multi-segment product offering support its ability to address different buyer profiles, while its geographic spread helps limit reliance on a single market.
Recent developments have centered on balance sheet management, financing actions, and operating execution. In 2025, the company reported quarterly results that highlighted growth in consolidated community count and controlled lots, while SEC filings also showed debt refinancing and other capital structure actions. More recently, the company disclosed first-quarter fiscal 2026 activity, including consolidation of a joint venture and an acquisition of a controlling interest in a previously unconsolidated joint venture in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, indicating that Hovnanian continues to manage both its domestic platform and select international or partnership-related interests. Overall, HOV remains a cyclical U.S. housing name listed on the NYSE, with performance tied closely to residential demand, interest rates, and new-home affordability trends.
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