Key Takeaways
- Shares of a number of large homebuilders sank Thursday after the Trump administration announced its new tariffs.
- Analysts and homebuilders have said that tariffs could make construction more expensive.
- UBS analysts said any cost passed on to consumers could "prove challenging in a choppy demand environment."
Shares of several homebuilders fell Thursday on concerns that the Trump administration's new tariffs could 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:raise costs and slow construction of new homes in the U.S.
The stocks of D.R. Horton (DHI), Lennar (LEN), Toll Brothers (TOL), PulteGroup (PHM), NVR (NVR), Taylor Morrison Home (TMH), KB Home (KBH), and Meritage Homes (MTH) were all down sharply Thursday.
The Invesco Building & Construction ETF (PKB) and the iShares US Home Construction ETF (ITB), which track the 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:performance of the sector, were both down almost 5%.
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UBS analysts said in a Thursday note that their work indicates about 7% of the materials and equipment used to build homes in the U.S. is imported and is now subject to an average tariff of 22%. The analysts expect the average home to become $6,400 more expensive to build because of the tariffs.
The tariffs won't just impact imported goods, the analysts said, as they expect a "knock-on price increase" of about 5% for domestic homebuilding supplies.
The analysts said they expect the burden of the higher prices will be spread across the industry of suppliers and homebuilders, as higher prices for consumers should be a last resort. Any price increase to the average home "could prove challenging in a choppy demand environment already constrained by meaningful affordability challenges," they wrote.
With homebuilding stocks having 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩🦄网:fallen over the last several months on tariff concerns, the analysts said they "believe the market is prese💙nting a particularly attractive entry point for ܫinvestors."
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