HOVHovnanian Enterprises, Inc.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (BBB) and big price swings.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -94% · now 25% below its 52-week high.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can HOV take a bad year?
The deepest fall in HOV's price history on file is −94%; it is 25% below its high today.
Worst drawdown on file · −25% today
- Debt / equity
- 1.10×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 63%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $902M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $53M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $37M
- Debt / equity
- 1.10×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 17.0×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 63%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −94%
- Below its 52-week high
- 25%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Residential Construction
Ranks #10 of 13 by RyuScore