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 West Segment.

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

As of December 26, 2025, HOV stock price climbed to $101.77 with 56,422 million shares trading.

HOV has a beta of 1.00, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. HOV has a correlation of 0.08 to the broad based SPY ETF.

HOV has a market cap of $605.80 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Hovnanian Enterprises Class A reported $818 million in Revenue and -$.51 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $3 million and missed earnings estimates by -$1.14.

In the last 3 years, HOV traded as high as $240.34 and as low as $41.28.

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 -24.4% while the SPY ETF gained +16.0%. HOV has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -21.9% and -4.8%, respectively, while the SPY returned +4.6% and +1.5%, respectively.

HOV support price is $96.99 and resistance is $105.15 (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.