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Profile - Hovnanian Enterprises (NYSE:HOV)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
10 Highway 35, P.O. Box 500
Red Bank, NJ 07701
Phone: (732) 747-7800
Fax: (732) 747-7159
Employees (last reported count): 1,450
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 ·Industry: Construction Services
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 61%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · one insider buy; 3,000  shares
 · 4 insider sells; 197.0K shares
  (1.1% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 27% (68% of float)
(78 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 840.0K shares (+10.12%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. designs, constructs and markets single-family detached homes, and attached condominium apartments and townhouses in planned residential developments in the northeast (primarily in New Jersey, southern New York state, and eastern Pennsylvania), North Carolina, southeastern Florida, Metro D.C. (northern Virginia and Maryland), southern California, Texas and Poland. The Company markets its homes to first-time buyers, first- and second-time move-up buyers, luxury buyers, active adult buyers and empty nesters. The Company is currently offering homes for sale in 120 communities. In addition, the Company provides financial services (mortgage loans and title insurance) to its homebuilding customers.
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Financial Summary
HOV designs, constructs and markets multi-family attached condominium apartments and townhouses, and single family detached homes in planned residential developments. For the six months ended 4/01, revenues rose 40% to $697 million. Net income totalled $21 million, up from $6.9 million. Revenues reflect an increase in sales of homes, land sales and mortgage loan amounts. Earnings also reflect improved gross profit margins and decreased financial services expenses.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Pay

Kevork Hovnanian, 77
Chairman
$2.1M
Ara Hovnanian, 43
Pres, CEO, Director
2.2M
J. Larry Sorsby, 45
CFO, Exec. VP, Director
547K
Geaton DeCesaris, Jr., 45
COO, Director
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Paul Buchanan, 50
Sr. VP, Corp. Controller, Director
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Dollar amounts are as of 31-Oct-2000 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc..
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:HOVAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 19-Oct-2000
$6.75 
Recent Price$14.20 
52-Week High
on 15-May-2001
$19.34 
Beta0.27 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)170.8K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)88.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+102.9%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+172.1%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$397.0M
Shares Outstanding28.0M
Float10.9M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)$12.00 
Earnings (ttm)$1.99 
Earnings (mrq)$0.48 
Sales (ttm)$55.74 
Cash (mrq)$1.38 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq)1.18 
Price/Earnings (ttm)7.14 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.26 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$1.34B
EBITDA (ttm)$129.9M
Income available to common (ttm)$47.2M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)3.5%
Operating Margin (ttm)5.7%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsOct 31
Most recent quarter30-Apr-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)5.12%
Return on Equity (ttm)16.82%
Financial Strength
Current RatioN/A 
Debt/Equity (mrq)1.76 
Total Cash (mrq)$38.4M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short892.0K
Percent of Float8.2%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
804.0K
Short Ratio6.86 
Daily Volume130.0K
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   B = billions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-Apr-2001)

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