The Ryland Group, Inc.
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Betting on the Home Builders: Is It too Late?
By Marshall Hargrave - May 16, 2013 | Tickers: DHI, MTH, NVR, PHM, RYL
The home builders have been on a tear since last month, and for good reason. Employment is rising and credit is loosening, which means more people are buying and building homes. Housing starts were up 27.5% year-over-year for 2012, and S&P Economics is expecting housing starts to rise another 34.6% in 2013. As a result of these solid housing numbers, all the major home builders have been more » -
With All the Weeds Pulled Out of the Mortgage Patch, This ETF May Bloom
By Jeff Stouffer - May 16, 2013 | Tickers: MCY, ORI, RDN, KME, RYL
Talk to any mortgage loan officer today and he/she will still think that he/she will be accused of being one of the bad guys that caused the triggering event of the financial industry's problems. Now that sweeping regulations and reform are well underway, the mortgage loan officer that still works in this field will no longer have the curved, waxed mustache and black cape.
Home mortgages are more »
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A New Homebuilder Is Coming to the Neighborhood
By Alex Gray - May 1, 2013 | Tickers: DHI, PICO, RYL
PICO Holdings (NASDAQ: PICO) subsidiary UCP filed a Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on April 4. According to the filing, UCP intends to raise approximately $125 million from the offering. The number of shares being offered and the amount of ownership that PICO will retain in UCP after the offering remain unclear.
Timing is everything
From what's known, the timing of the announcement appears more »
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Are You Foolish About Home Builders?
By Holly Thompson - April 15, 2013 | Tickers: DHI, KBH, PHM, RYL
The United States has experienced more residential home building procedures recently than it has in the last few years. It is not as prominent as what it experienced in the past before the recession hit but the growth in the market is still strong. In fact, it is estimated that the total number of residential home construction permits that have been issued in the United States has increased to rates more »
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There is About to be a New Homebuilder on the Block
By Alex Gray - April 8, 2013 | Tickers: KBH, PICO, PHM, RYL, TOL
PICO Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PICO) subsidiary, UCP, LLC, filed a Form S-1 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on April 4, 2013. According to the filing, the UCP intends to raise approximately $125 million from the offering. The offering is not clear as to the number of shares being offered or what the ownership of UCP by PICO will be after the offering.
Timing is Everything
What more »
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Explosive Gains in the New Building Boom
By Ken McGaha - March 27, 2013 | Tickers: DHI, KBH, PHM, RYL
Housing is coming back in a big way! Residential builders have been off the radar for most people as potential investments for the last five years. Since bottoming in September 2011, the stocks and prospects for residential construction firms have been on a steady rise. These businesses currently offer an excellent opportunity to investors who act now to receive exceptional returns for the next three to five years as this more »
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Why Pigs Will Get Slaughtered in Homebuilder Stocks
By Jordan Wathen - March 4, 2013 | Tickers: BBBY, DHI, HD, RYL, TOL
Cyclical stocks are the toughest to call, since they rely on multiyear cycles of upturns and downturns. Rising employment, home prices, and low rates are fueling a rebound in American home prices. In some areas, real estate is so supply-constrained that bidding wars are back. Look at Phoenix, for example.
What's good for homeowners might not be so good for investors. Companies like Toll Brothers, D.R. Horton, Ryland more »
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Who Wins in the Housing Comeback?
By Nate Wooley - January 24, 2013 | Tickers: KBH, LEN, PHM, RYL
Home construction is coming back. This is one of my most deeply held beliefs. I hold this as truth because I believe that the American economy is coming back in 2013. The only thing holding back construction right now is the still shaky confidence of the American home buying public and how much the idiots in Congress delay the recovery (perhaps a discussion for another time).
So when the economy more »
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Housing: 3 Stocks to Buy, 1 to Avoid
By Piyush Arora - November 27, 2012 | Tickers: BZH, DHI, HOV, RYL
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Housing Exec: "We Were Misunderstood"
By Gerelyn Terzo - November 16, 2012 | Tickers: BZH, DHI, RYL
Since issuing its quarterly earnings results on November 12, shares of Beazer Homes (NYSE: BZH) have shed 18% of their value. Allan Merrill, the company's president and chief executive that replaced Ian McCarthy last year, said in a recent UBS homebuilder conference that the company's results were “misunderstood” by investors, and went on to accept full responsibility for the confusion.
A key area that seems to be the more »
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Superior Fundamentals = Superior Returns
By William Bias - September 22, 2012 | Tickers: DHI, NVR, PHM, RYL
When you buy a share of stock you are buying a share of a business enterprise and becoming part owner. Over the long term the business fundamentals and price paid are what determines your long-term investment returns.
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Five Years Later, Real Estate Hums Along
By Gerelyn Terzo - August 13, 2012 | Tickers: HOV, KBH, LEN, PHM, RYL
It has been five years since the credit crunch that nearly squashed the housing market surfaced, and recovery - while painfully slow - by some definitions is afoot.
As I drive through the streets in the Northeastern city where I live, I can't help but notice the number of 'for sale' signs perched in front of more than just a flurry of residential homes. If anecdotal evidence is any indication, things more »
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Housing Uptick May Not be Sustainable
By Paula Pant - August 4, 2012 | Tickers: LEN, PHM, RYL
Many signs indicate that housing has entered a seller’s market. Most pundits point to record-low home prices and mortgage interest rates to show that economic incentives are in place for buyers to flood the market.
That’s true, but it’s only a side point. Demand for housing hinges on one key ratio: the number of new households being formed relative to the glut of empty homes that exist more »
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Housing Gets a Boost
By Mary Posey - July 23, 2012 | Tickers: DHI, NVR, RYL
The housing market in general has seen signs of improvement recently. The National Association of Home Builders reported recently that its confidence index experienced the biggest monthly jump in July in almost a decade. Builders are expecting to sell more homes and the Commerce Department also reported that home building in June rose to the highest level in almost four years.