Home Builder Stocks Tank
After a nervous rally yesterday, Wall Street is throwing in the towel on the home builders after the starts decline. Down numbers again. Toll Bros. 4.2%, KB Home 3.95%, Ryland 3%, Pulte 3.9%, Lennar 2%.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005
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3 Comments:
While I hate to dance upon anyone's grave, I'm heartened that the street in now skeptical of the builders' pablum. The way that KBH in particular has been a brazen cheeleader of late is simply disgusting.
These guys are even more creative than the NAR or the MBA in spinning a story. The latest slowdowns were due to "weather" and they all have an incredibly rosy outlook for the rest of the year.
Meanwhile they are all significantly slowing production. Hmmmmmmm.....
Well, the homebuilders have always been cyclical, and the classic pattern is that their earnings peak when the fed begins tightening.
My real concern is that an overall bear market can burst the housing bubble faster than anything else, because it can destroy consumer confidence, increase the risk premium on corporate bonds and mortgage backed securites, and possibly lead to recession or a depression. My personal view is that the stock market bubble of the nineties didn't fully pop. We had a parabolic run from 1995 to 2000, and the bear market of 2000-2002 only took us back to 1998 levels before real estate took off and the housing ATM came to the rescue. I think with the major averages crossing below the 200 DMA, we are now beginning a 2-3 year bear market that will burst both the housing bubble and the tech bubble and bring prices of both back to 1996 levels, where I will personally be a big buyer of each. Until then, I will be in treasuries, gold mining stocks, and out-of-the-money index puts on a monthly basis.
(My personal view is that the stock market bubble of the nineties didn't fully pop)
I agree, the Dow should head much lower.
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