Pulte News

Homebuilding has arguably been the worst hit industry of the Great Recession. New home sales fell from over 1,000,000 per year at the height of the housing bubble to approximately 300,000 in 2011.

Beazer Homes , one of the hardest hit homebuilders, reported a net profit for the first fiscal quarter of 2012.

Since the beginning of October 2011 the PHLX Housing Sector Index , Hovnanian Enterprises , Pulte Group , Toll Brothers , Beazer Homes , Standard Pacific , Lennar and Meritage Homes .

PulteGroup was downgraded by research analysts at Raymond James from an "outperform" rating to a "market perform" rating in a report issued on Monday.

New York Times Co. reported its results for the fourth quarter. Net income for New York Times Co.

PulteGroup 's stock had its "outperform" rating reaffirmed by Zacks Investment Research in a note issued to investors on Friday.

PulteGroup's home deliveries in 2011 failed to improve, but it's balance sheet made some progress from the annus horribilis that was 2010.

Pulte Group, Inc. reported a profit of $14 million or 4 cents per share in the fourth quarter of 2011 compared with a loss of $165 million or 44 cents per share in the same quarter of 2010.

S&P 500 component PulteGroup Inc. reported its results for the fourth quarter. PulteGroup is a publicly held holding company involved in the homebuilding and financial services businesses.

D. R. Horton Inc. A climbed to a profit in the first quarter and beat Wall Street's expectations in the process.A Reported a profit of $27.7 million in the quarter.

PulteGroup was downgraded by equities research analysts at Barclays Capital to an "equal weight" rating in a research note issued to investors on Monday.

In trading on Friday, general contractors & builders shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 2.2%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Pultegroup , off about 4.5% and shares of KB Home down about 4.2% on the day.

In November, U.S. home building climbed to the highest level in 19 months as multi-family construction increased by 25 percent.A The boom in the rental market sent shares of home-builders such as KB Home , PulteGroup, Inc.

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