Here's what most are missing about the housing market now [Power Trends] If You Believe Housingâs Dead, Youâre About to Get Left Behind
Stalwart stocks like Netflix (NFLX) and Tesla (TSLA) dropped 8% and 9% today after capping their earnings reports with disappointing outlooks. That was the bad news. But other stocks also dropped — despite some upbeat forecasts. And thatâs the good news … because it creates some intriguing opportunities. Homebuilders, for one, are much better positioned than investors understand right now. Builders are the opposite of a Tesla or a Netflix, which are companies that people want to believe in. Those firms, and others like them, are always making headlines — with a Cybertruck or a âTiger King.â But when reality falls short of the hype and hope, itâs a huge letdown. Housing is a sector no one wants to believe in right now…because the media is pushing such a negative narrative about it. But that kind of disconnect between a downbeat narrative and an upbeat reality sets you up for the best of possible moneymaking windows — the âupside surprise.â So, today in Power Trends, letâs peruse the newest numbers on the housing market and put this negative to the test: Interest rates are high. No oneâs moving. Homebuilder sales and earnings arenât looking great. What a disaster. Well, [as I told you in June]( the iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF (ITB) was the top-ranked ETF in my [Quantum Edge system](. And still today — thereâs something big going on with homebuilders that most onlookers are missing. The Housing Market Hasnât Given Us Much to Get Excited About…Yet
This week, we got the June reports on U.S. housing starts, building permits, and existing-home sales. They were nothing to (pardon the pun) write home about: All three numbers dropped from May and, even worse, were lower than expected. So, when you combine weak housing data with the stock-dumping angst triggered by todayâs high-profile disappointments… You end up with share-price drops of as much as 3.5% in major homebuilder stocks like Lennar (LEN), D.R. Horton (DHI), NVR Inc. (NVR). And thereâs the disconnect. The news was disappointing. The share-price drops are disappointing. But homebuilders havenât been that disappointing. Lennar reported profits of $2.94 a share on sales of $8.05 billion in the second quarter — beating estimates for 62 cents a share and $810 million, respectively. And just today, D.R. Horton reported earnings of $3.90 per share on sales of $9.73 billion, which beat by $1.11 per share and $1.32 billion. I grant you, those earnings numbers were down from the second quarter a year ago. But expectations are a key piece of the Wall Street game. And those declines were less than Wall Street predicted. In the world of the stock market, thatâs good news. And yet — what the âgloom-and-doomâ headlines about housing arenât saying is this: The âsmart moneyâ — the Big Money players who dominate Wall Street — are buying these stocks anyway. RECOMMENDED LINK [Our A.I. predicts the future price of TSLA, NVDA, and AAPL](
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Hereâs Lennar, whose stock enjoyed three Big Money buys ahead of its June 14 earnings — and even more of them afterwards:
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D.R. Horton is even better, with eight Big Money buys leading up to its earnings report today:
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Why are homebuilders, apparently, such a hot buy? We got one clue in Lennar and D.R. Hortonâs quarterly reports — where both companies raised their forward guidance for the full-year 2023. And we got another clue on Tuesday, when real-estate researcher Redfin found that only 1% of Americaâs homes have changed hands this year. Turnover hasnât been this low in a decade. Stiffer mortgage rates and inflation-driven home prices have made the whole homeownership experience too costly. So, fewer people are out there buying (or listing their current home). Certainly down here in South Florida where I live the mantra has become: Good luck buying a home. And the âinventoryâ of houses out there on the market is pretty lean, anyway. We got our third clue yesterday: Apparently, now that rates have finally started to drop, mortgage applications are surging — and have been for four straight weeks. See, there are always people who want to move — and now, maybe, they finally can. Thatâs the good news weâre getting (if we know where to look). But the Big Money crowd knew this all along — and thatâs why theyâve been buying homebuilders these past couple of months. You know: the folks who can provide more houses now that demand is picking up. Wall Street Looks to the Future⦠So You Should, Too
When big institutional investors pick stocks (or toss them out), theyâre acting on what is going to happen … not whatâs happening now. So these players are looking past the current reports — to whatâs in the cards for next quarter, or the full year. Want proof? Look at how the âguidance for the agesâ from Nvidia (NVDA) back in May missiled that stock to new highs. And Wall Street firms have sources that most retail investors donât have. They care just as much about estimated sales and earnings as the rest of us… Wall Street pros have access to very unique research, like flying drones around to âspyâ on places like shopping malls and spot unexpected trends in what consumers are up to. And they have longstanding networks of sources for data that most folks canât access. But our Quantum Edge system acts as a âproxyâ for those advantages that Big Money investors have — and lets you invest on their coattails. This is why I always pay attention to Big Money activity in stocks like D.R. Horton, which I recommended in [Quantum Edge Trader]( on June 1. And DHI quickly became one of our best positions, up 18% already. To see my latest buy alert — and get on the list for all the trades going forward — [watch this to learn more]( and get involved in Quantum Edge. Talk soon, [Jason Bodner]Jason Bodner
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