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Here's How Much You'd Have If You Invested $1000 in Lennar a Decade Ago

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For most investors, how much a stock's price changes over time is important. Not only can it impact your investment portfolio, but it can also help you compare investment results across sectors and industries.

The fear of missing out, or FOMO, also plays a factor in investing, especially with particular tech giants, as well as popular consumer-facing stocks.

What if you'd invested in Lennar (LEN - Free Report) ten years ago? It may not have been easy to hold on to LEN for all that time, but if you did, how much would your investment be worth today?

Lennar's Business In-Depth

With that in mind, let's take a look at Lennar's main business drivers.

Founded in 1954 and based in Miami, FL, Lennar Corporation is engaged in homebuilding and financial services in the United States. The company’s reportable segments consist of Homebuilding, Lennar Financial Services, Rialto and Lennar Multifamily.

Despite the varied product portfolio, homebuilding remains Lennar’s core business. Homebuilding operations (accounting for 94.9% of fiscal 2022 total revenues) include the sale and construction of single-family attached and detached homes as well as the purchase, development and sale of residential land directly and through unconsolidated entities.

Lennar’s reportable homebuilding segments consist of Homebuilding East, which covers Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia; Homebuilding Central covers Arizona, Colorado and Texas; Homebuilding West covers California and Nevada; Homebuilding Other covers Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah and Washington. However, Homebuilding Other is not considered a reportable segment.

The Financial Services business (2.4%) includes mortgage financing, title insurance and closing services to the company’s homebuyers as well as others through Lennar’s financial services subsidiaries — Universal American Mortgage Company and Eagle Home Mortgage.

Lennar Multi-Family (2.6%) is involved in the development, construction and property management of multi-family rental apartments in premium markets of California through unconsolidated entities.

Lennar & Other (0.1%) includes operations primarily from the company's share of carried interests in Rialto fund investments, retained after the sale of Rialto's asset and investment management platform, along with equity in earnings/loss from Rialto fund investments and strategic technology investments, including other income (expense).

Bottom Line

Putting together a successful investment portfolio takes a combination of research, patience, and a little bit of risk. For Lennar, if you bought shares a decade ago, you're likely feeling really good about your investment today.

According to our calculations, a $1000 investment made in June 2013 would be worth $3,441.70, or a gain of 244.17%, as of June 23, 2023, and this return excludes dividends but includes price increases.

Compare this to the S&P 500's rally of 175.17% and gold's return of 36.08% over the same time frame.

Analysts are forecasting more upside for LEN too.

Lennar reported impressive first-quarter fiscal 2023 results, with earnings and revenues beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 26.72% and 10.48%, respectively. The company is benefiting from digital marketing initiatives and dynamic pricing model. Also, land-lighter strategy and effective cost-control measures are added positives. The company continues to emphasize on refining its land acquisition and management, focusing on optimizing land and land bank strategy. Lennar successfully reduced land ownership on balance sheet, with 70% of land now under control and only 30% owned. This reflects on effective utilization of resources. Earnings estimates for fiscal 2023 have increased in the past 30 days, depicting analysts' optimism over its growth prospects.

Shares have gained 11.75% over the past four weeks and there have been 5 higher earnings estimate revisions for fiscal 2023 compared to none lower. The consensus estimate has moved up as well.

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