HOV Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Hovnanian Enterprises Class A | NYSE:HOV)

Hovnanian Enterprises Inc conducts all of its homebuilding and financial services operations. The company designs, constructs, markets, and sells single-family detached homes, attached townhomes and condominiums, urban infill, and active lifestyle homes in planned residential developments. It has two distinct operations: homebuilding and financial services. Its homebuilding operations are divided geographically into three segments: Northeast, which includes Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia; Southeast, which includes Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina; and West, which includes Arizona, California, and Texas. The firm generates maximum revenue from the West Segment.

Hovnanian Enterprises Class A trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol HOV.

As of March 30, 2026, HOV stock price climbed to $107.34 with 166,577 million shares trading.

HOV has a beta of 0.87, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. HOV has a correlation of 0.06 to the broad based SPY ETF.

HOV has a market cap of $638.96 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Hovnanian Enterprises Class A reported $632 million in Revenue and $2.62 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $3 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $3.60.

In the last 3 years, HOV traded as high as $240.34 and as low as $61.10.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that HOV belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IWM, AVUV, XHB, VXF.

HOV has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +0.2%, while SPY returned +12.7%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in HOV shares. However, HOV has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +5.5% and +0.6%, while SPY returned -8.2% and -4.3%, respectively. This indicates HOV has been having a stronger performance recently.

HOV support price is $103.25 and resistance is $110.37 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that HOV shares will trade within this expected range on the day.