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62%
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in 1153 days
Centex Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the construction and sale of detached and attached single-family homes. The company sells its homes to first-time and move-up buyers under the Centex Homes brand, as well as under the Fox & Jacobs brand to the first-time buyers. As of March 31, 2008, it operated in 74 market areas located in 22 states and the District of Columbia; and sold 27,202 homes, including first-time, move-up, and luxury homes. The company also involves in the other homebuilding operations that include resort/second home projects in Florida. In addition, it off...
By  Marian Filo   (-24.55%  risk: aggressive)  04/09/09 4 comments


Cramer on BloggingStocks: Zombie homebuilders keep shuffling along Graphic_rating_sell CTX
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Filed under: Market matters, Centex Corp (CTX), D.R.Horton (DHI), Toll Brothers (TOL), Stocks to Sell, Housing, Cramer on BloggingStocks

TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says this group simply refuses to merge, so you can safely sell them all.

One look at Toll Brothers' (NYSE: TOL) (Cramer's Take) quarter today tells us we aren't there yet. They still have plenty of money. They still have plenty of cancellations. They still need a tax credit for more business, which we ...
By  Jim Cramer   (+13.24%  risk: moderate)  03/04/09 1 comment


Initiating Coverage on Homebuilders, Positive View on Sector CTX
+37.89%
in 1541 days
3/14 - "We have initiated coverage of the homebuilders with a 1-Positive sector rating. We have initiated with 1-Overweight ratings on D.R. Horton (DHI - price target of $18), Ryland (RYL - price target of $31), and Toll Brothers (TOL - price target of $27), with 2-Equal weight ratings on Centex (CTX - price target of $23), KB Home (KBH - price target of $24), Lennar (LEN - price target of $20), and Pulte (PHM - price target of $15), and a 3-Underweight rating on Hovnanian (HOV - price target of $8)." "We expect homebuilding stocks to continue to be volatile for the next few months, as we ...
By  Megan Talbott McGrath (Lehman Brothers)   (+34.43%  risk: moderate)  03/16/08 3 comments


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Bearish on CTX ... Graphic_rating_sell CTX
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Many have been eager to call a bottom only to get bitten by fear. 

It won't be easy to call the bottom in homebuilders until we see insolvency in a few homebuilders first.  The reason being is homebuilders are not cash-rich companies.  They load up on short-term debt to buy land and materials to construct homes, and pay back the debt once they sell the property. 

<> The problem is homebuilders bought too much land and built too many houses.  If you can't make money selling houses, you can't pay back the debt you borrowed to build the houses.  Some companies highly leveraged th<><><><><>...
By  thebigkill   (+0.53%  risk: moderate)  03/16/08 1 comment


Bullish on CTX ... Graphic_rating_buy CTX
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(closed on 05/10/07)

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By  T MM   (+1.05%  risk: aggressive)  05/02/07 1 comment





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