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 13, 2026, HOV stock price climbed to $106.75 with 64,024 million shares trading.

HOV has a beta of 0.67, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. HOV has a correlation of 0.04 to the broad based SPY ETF.

HOV has a market cap of $635.45 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 $61.01.

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

HOV has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +5.2% while the SPY ETF gained +21.4%. However, in the short term, HOV had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning -0.2% vs -2.6% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, HOV shares have been beat by the market, returning -15.0% compared to an SPY return of -3.5%.

HOV support price is $101.68 and resistance is $109.82 (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.