Bookmark and Share

Lennar Corp. Posts Better-Than-Expected Q3 Results

Homebuilder, Lennar Corporation (NYSE: LEN) said on Tuesday that fiscal third quarter earnings increased 39%, aided by stronger margins, jump in orders and deliveries and a staggering revenue growth. For the latest period, profit stood at $120.7 million or 54 cents a share, compared to a net income of $87.1 million or 40 cents a share, in the same quarter of last year. Revenue jumped 46% to $1.6 billion. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had expected earnings of 45 cents a share on revenue of $1.56 billion. Gross margin widened to 24.9% from 23.2%. Home deliveries climbed 37% to 4,990 homes while average selling price rose 16%.


Leave a Reply

  

  

  

You can use these HTML tags

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
All stories in DailyStocks.com are for informational purposes only. This is NOT a stock recommendation. This DailyStocks.com story is a daily light analysis featuring a stock with insider buying. With some caveats, insiders purchase a stock because they think the stock is going up. There are other factors to consider such as size of the transaction relative to their compensation and net worth. Sometimes, insiders might be propping a stock price up for future financing. Sometimes, the amount of insider buying are misread or misreported. Each month, DailyStocks releases a a summary of the stocks with insider buying. Sign up for the free monthly newsletter at DailyStocks.com . About Dailystocks.com: DailyStocks.com is the place where you can find stories about stocks with insider buying, where you can educate yourself about stock market investing, and where you can perform the stock search engine analysis – you enter a stock symbol, and you get a resulting page of stock ticker indexed links so that you do not have to type the stock symbol each time.