Press release from Business Wire
KB Home Declares Third Quarter 2011 Dividend
Thursday, July 14, 2011
KB Home Declares Third Quarter 2011 Dividend14:38 EDT Thursday, July 14, 2011
LOS ANGELES (Business Wire) -- The board of directors of KB Home (NYSE: KBH) has declared a quarterly
cash dividend of $.0625 per share on the Company's common stock, payable
on August 18, 2011 to stockholders of record on August 4, 2011.
About KB Home
KB Home (NYSE: KBH), one of the nation's premier homebuilders, has
delivered over half a million quality homes for families since its
founding in 1957. The Los Angeles-based company is distinguished by its
Built to Order™ homebuilding approach that puts a custom home experience
within reach of its customers at an affordable price. KB Home has been
named the #1 Green Homebuilder in a study by Calvert Investments and the
#1 Homebuilder on FORTUNE magazine's 2011 World's Most Admired Companies
list. The Company trades under the ticker symbol "KBH" and was the first
homebuilder listed on the New York Stock Exchange. For more information
about any of KB Home's new home communities, call 888-KB-HOMES or visit www.kbhome.com.
Certain matters discussed in this press release, including any
statements that are predictive in nature or concern future market and
economic conditions, business and prospects, our future financial and
operational performance, or our future actions and their expected
results are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking
statements are based on current expectations and projections about
future events and are not guarantees of future performance. We do not
have a specific policy or intent of updating or revising forward-looking
statements. Actual events and results may differ materially from those
expressed or forecasted in forward-looking statements due to a number of
factors. The most important risk factors that could cause our actual
performance and future events and actions to differ materially from such
forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: general
economic, employment and business conditions; adverse market conditions
that could result in additional impairments or abandonment charges and
operating losses, including an oversupply of unsold homes, declining
home prices and increased foreclosure and short sale activity, among
other things; conditions in the capital and credit markets (including
residential consumer mortgage lending standards, the availability of
residential consumer mortgage financing and mortgage foreclosure rates);
material prices and availability; labor costs and availability; changes
in interest rates; inflation; our debt level, including our ratio of
debt to total capital, and our ability to adjust our debt level and
structure; weak or declining consumer confidence, either generally or
specifically with respect to purchasing homes; competition for home
sales from other sellers of new and existing homes, including sellers of
homes obtained through foreclosures or short sales; weather conditions,
significant natural disasters and other environmental factors;
government actions, policies, programs and regulations directed at or
affecting the housing market (including, but not limited to, the
Dodd-Frank Act, tax credits, tax incentives and/or subsidies for home
purchases, tax deductions for residential consumer mortgage interest
payments and property taxes, tax exemptions for profits on home sales,
and programs intended to modify existing mortgage loans and to prevent
mortgage foreclosures), the homebuilding industry, or construction
activities; the availability and cost of land in desirable areas and our
ability to identify and acquire such land; legal or regulatory
proceedings or claims, including the involuntary bankruptcy and other
legal proceedings involving the South Edge, LLC residential development
joint venture located in Las Vegas, Nevada in which we are a
participant; the confirmation by the bankruptcy court of a consensual
plan of reorganization for South Edge, LLC and the implementation of
such a plan in accordance with the terms of the consensual agreement
effective June 10, 2011 among us, the administrative agent for the
lenders to South Edge, LLC, several of those lenders, and certain of the
other members of South Edge, LLC and their respective parent companies;
the ability and/or willingness of participants in our unconsolidated
joint ventures to fulfill their obligations; our ability to access
capital; our ability to use the net deferred tax assets we have
generated; our ability to successfully implement our current and planned
product, geographic and market positioning (including, but not limited
to, our efforts to expand our inventory base/pipeline with desirable
land positions or interests at reasonable cost and to expand our
community count and open new communities), revenue growth and cost
reduction strategies; consumer traffic to our new home communities and
consumer interest in our product designs, including The Open SeriesTM;
the impact of our unconsolidated mortgage banking joint venture with a
subsidiary of Bank of America, N.A. ceasing to accept loan applications
effective June 27, 2011 and ceasing to offer mortgage banking services
to our homebuyers after June 30, 2011; the manner in which our
homebuyers are offered and obtain residential consumer mortgage loans
and mortgage banking services; and other events outside of our control.
Please see our periodic reports and other filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission for a further discussion of these and other
risks and uncertainties applicable to our business.
KB HomeKatoiya Marshall, Investor Contact310-893-7446 or kmarshall@kbhome.comHeather
Reeves, Media Contact310-231-4142 or hreeves-x@kbhome.com
