$9.46

-0.46 (-4.64%)

5/12/2008 4:03 PM

Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (BZH)

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Designs, sells and builds single family homes in various locations within the United States. Designs homes at various price points to appeal to homebuyers across various demographic segments.

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Atlanta (26), Residential Construction (27), Micro Cap (4824), Home Builder (13)
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Beazer Homes USA, Inc. At A Glance

Current Price:	$9.46
Last Trade Time:	5/12/2008 4:03 PM
Open:	$9.98
Previous Close:	$9.92
Daily Range:	$9.32 - $10.10
52-Week Range:	$4.53 - $38.76
Volume:	1,431,023
Market Cap:	$390.25M
P/E Ratio:	6.14
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Other News Headlines for BZH

Beazer Homes restates prior earnings
5/12/2008 6:24:00 PM - AP
Sector snap: Homebuilders mostly lower poor industry data
4/29/2008 12:54:00 PM - AP
Sector snap: Homebuilders mostly higher on Fed cut hopes
4/28/2008 1:25:00 PM - AP
Sector snap: Homebuilders rise; data shows sector's struggle
4/24/2008 1:21:00 PM - AP

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Avatar didIpickthat (< 20) Submitted: 3/20/08 2:24 PM

I like the strategy the company uses when dealing with the housing market. Instead of bulding one type of home (luxury) it opts to build homes at all levels. More afforable housing will be the advantagefor this builder.

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10 Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (BZH)

Avatar jstegma (99.46) Submitted: 3/31/08 12:19 PM

When will the housing prices quit falling? When the inventory backlog gets worked out.

When will the inventory backlog get worked out? When homebuilders quit building faster than people are buying.

What will happen when homebuilders drastically cut down on building? Many of them will have to go...More

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When will the housing prices quit falling? When the inventory backlog gets worked out.

When will the inventory backlog get worked out? When homebuilders quit building faster than people are buying.

What will happen when homebuilders drastically cut down on building? Many of them will have to go out of business.

Drive around the outskirts of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and you'll see hundreds of signs for new houses - every homebuilder under the sun. Today, here in 2008, they are still building houses faster than banks can foreclose on the ones they built a few years ago. This cannot continue indefinitely.

You always hear people on TV talking about how the housing market is supposed to turn around in 2009 or 2011 or whatever. That may be the case, but it won't mean that homebuilders will be raking in the bucks again like they did in 2004 and 2005. The reason the housing market will "turn around" is that most of these homebuilders will have quit building (and we'll have had enough time to work through the leftover inventory).

Another factor to think about is the booming commodity (materials) prices versus the falling home prices. These builders could make a nice profit when the house prices were higher and the commodity prices were lower, but by the time the housing market "turns around" (in other words the prices stop dropping), the ratio of home prices to commodity prices will be a lot different than it was in the housing boom years. This is going to squeeze homebuilder profits in a big way for a long time to come.

Yet another factor to consider is exactly what does a home builder have as far as a competitive advantage? Maybe a few house design plans, some land, and a bunch of Mexicans. It hardly seems like it would be that hard to compete against. It's not like you have to build huge factories or develop massive amounts of intellectual property. Whatever current homebuilders survive, they will face new competitions from companies that won't have the same baggage that was left over from the current bust.

I just can't imagine why anyone would want to invest in homebuilders right now.

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Recs 0 (BZH) jmofield (59.05) Submitted: 5/12/08 10:28 PM : Start Price: $9.42 BZH Score: 0.09 I have decided for the next serveral weeks to change my investment strategy to be short stocks trading between $1.50 and below $10 with a market cap of more than $100 million. My goal is to acheive at least a 60% sucess rate of beating the S&P Index. I am looking for 30% of my picks beating the S&P Index by more than 5% with an average per pick of at least 1.50. I am only looking to hold these positions for approximately 10-15 days. All the picks that I select are from screening criteria that I have developed using software from Vectorvest. I find it to be a good screening tool. For game playing purposes, since I always try to have 200 picks going at once, it's a shot gun approach with only short term trading in mind. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (BZH) CarltonWhitfield (98.60) Submitted: 5/12/08 3:58 PM : Start Price: $9.50 BZH Score: 0.44 we are set for an extended route of the new homebuilding industry. falling prices, tight credit and demographics will lead to both a lack of demand and continuous oversupply for a decade in my opinion. while some of the homebuilders may do fine the market should be able to handily outgrow them, especially given their recent hard bounce off the bottom. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (BZH) AnomaLee (99.45) Submitted: 5/09/08 10:36 PM : Start Price: $11.76 BZH Score: 19.99 People don't care enough about beazers. The beazers habitat has been steadily destroyed. Although they are great lumber workers this animal is facing some serious environmental challenges. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (BZH) saunafool (99.72) Submitted: 5/09/08 2:40 AM : Start Price: $10.42 BZH Score: 10.70 Housing is still toast, read floridabuilders blog. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 2 (BZH) icanpickm (98.80) Submitted: 5/09/08 1:58 AM : Start Price: $11.80 BZH Score: 19.83 II have both objective reasons and personal experience as too why this builder may be in trouble. First, why haven't they produced a financial statement since July. Apparently they have until May 15th, are they just waiting til the last minute like we all did in college, maybe pull an all nighter on the 14th. Come on, clearly they are waiting till the last minute to tell the street that they are making no sales, their land is worth five cents on the dollar and have no hope of making payments on their mountain of debt. Or maybe they are too busy helping the FBI probe their mortgage business. What are the chances their mortgage division is clean? Not great in my mind. Secondly, these guys were still grading lots on a large subdivision last summer in the town where I live. This would not be alarming if it was not one of the top five highest foreclosure markets in the country. Houses had stopped selling about a year before, every national builder was here, all with huge subdivision of lots sitting vacant, and there they were grading more. Smart Thinkng. Thirdly, my company did some business with them this winter. Getting paid was worse than pulling teeth. We had to call continuously, first the PM took 6 weeks to find the bills, we had to refax them many times. Then they kept losing the lien releases. Then they sent us a check UNSIGNED. That is the biggest rookie/cash poor small business trick in the book. I could not believe that one. They apologized and made us fedex it back with a return express mail envelope. Then they questioned our releases again, had to refax, then finally, after a 2nd day letter got to us in 7 days, we got the check. Over 90 days late. As of this writing the check appears to have cleared, but it has only been 5 days. We are in the worst housing market ever coming off the biggest bubble ever and not one of these major builders has gone bankrupt yet. How is that possible? My money is on the company that is not reporting its results, Beazer!!!! To be the first. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out.
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