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Hovnanian Enterprises HOV

US equityMarket cap rank #3560Residential Construction

$109.52 −$1.74 (-1.56%)

Market open · Oct 8, 10:00 am ET · After hours $111.26 0.00%

Open$110.09

Prev close$111.26

Day range$108.25 – $110.41

Volume36.7K

Market cap$652.73M

P/E (TTM)105.3

Dividend yield–

Ownership & positioning

Who holds it, who is betting against it, and where the big money is moving

Institutional ownership57.1%-0.74 pts vs. prior quarter

Institutions holding223+0 vs. prior quarter

Insider trades (recent)29 buys / 21 sellsNet buying

Short interest7.28% of floatDays to cover 3.9 · as of 15 Sep 2026

Short-sale volume share22.0%5-day average of daily volume

Short-sale volume as % of daily volume

Large-order net flow, last 20 sessions

Net of large-order buying minus selling, in USD. Over this window: +$378.9K (10 inflow days, 10 outflow days).

Net flow by order size, last 20 sessions

Super/Big orders approximate institutional-size trades; Mid/Small approximate retail-size trades. Net buy minus sell value in each bucket, summed over the window.

The five largest holders on file together own 35.0% of shares outstanding.

Largest holders

Ara Hovnanian17.28%
BlackRock7.11%
Vanguard Capital Management, LLC3.82%
State Street Global Advisors3.55%
J. Sorsby3.27%
Dimensional Fund Advisors2.94%
American Century Investment Management2.75%
Renaissance Technologies Corp.2.71%

By investor type

Mutual Fund38.68%
Individual/Insider26.01%
Hedge Fund12.99%
Public Company2.89%
Private Company1.76%
Government Pension Fund0.52%
Insurance Company0.26%
Corporate Pension Plan0.03%

Reported short interest has risen from 5.56% to 7.28% of float over the last 6 biweekly reports (30 Jun 2026 to 15 Sep 2026).

Recent institutional activity

Holder	Type	Period	Share change	New stake
Nuveen Asset Management LLC	Insurance Company	2026/Q3	+11,503	0.2%
J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Inc.	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+55,565	0.9%
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.	Public Company	2026/Q3	+47,887	1.4%
American Century Investment Management	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+40,118	2.8%
Hudson River Trading LLC	Private Company	2026/Q3	+35,432	0.6%
Landscape Capital Management, LLC	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+29,447	0.5%
Millennium Management LLC	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+25,184	0.8%
Jane Street Group, LLC	Private Company	2026/Q3	+21,865	0.8%
BlackRock	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+19,615	7.1%
Point72 Asset Management, L.P.	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+11,910	0.2%
Franklin Resources	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+11,744	0.5%
AllianceBernstein	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+10,192	0.4%
Y-Intercept (Hong Kong) Limited	Mutual Fund	2026/Q3	+10,062	0.2%
Bank of America Corporation	Public Company	2026/Q3	+8,546	0.3%
Walleye Capital LLC	Hedge Fund	2026/Q3	+7,810	0.1%

Institutional buy/sell activity by reporting period, largest moves first.

Insider transactions

Date	Insider	Title	Transaction	Shares	Price	Held after
14 Jul 2026	Ara Hovnanian	Chairperson & CEO	Derivative Exercise and Retained	+12,595	–	203,739
24 Jun 2026	J. Sorsby	Chief Financial Officer	Open Market Disposition	-1,032	$142.57	195,046
21 Jun 2026	Ara Hovnanian	Chairperson & CEO	Open Market Disposition	-12,880	$125.78	191,144
11 Jun 2026	Joseph Marengi	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+1,232	–	30,879
11 Jun 2026	Ara Hovnanian	Chairperson & CEO	Sale to Issuer	-17,575	$120.72	838,948
11 Jun 2026	Ara Hovnanian	Chairperson & CEO	Other Derivative Acquisition	+15,272	–	15,272
11 Jun 2026	Ara Hovnanian	Chairperson & CEO	Other Derivative Acquisition	+18,936	–	18,936
11 Jun 2026	J. Sorsby	Chief Financial Officer	Other Acquisition	+924	–	196,078
11 Jun 2026	Robert Coutts	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+1,078	–	38,418
11 Jun 2026	Vincent Pagano	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+1,078	–	25,492
11 Jun 2026	Michael Wyatt	Group President	Other Derivative Acquisition	+4,400	–	4,400
11 Jun 2026	Michael Wyatt	Group President	Other Derivative Acquisition	+5,456	–	5,456
11 Jun 2026	Brad O’Connor	Senior VP, Treasurer & Chief Accounting Officer	Other Derivative Acquisition	+3,106	–	3,106
11 Jun 2026	Brad O’Connor	Senior VP, Treasurer & Chief Accounting Officer	Other Derivative Acquisition	+3,852	–	3,852
11 Jun 2026	Bonnie Sellers	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+1,078	–	18,174
11 Jun 2026	Alexander Hovnanian	Executive Vice President - National Homebuilding Operations	Other Derivative Acquisition	+4,400	–	4,400
11 Jun 2026	Alexander Hovnanian	Executive Vice President - National Homebuilding Operations	Other Derivative Acquisition	+5,456	–	5,456
11 Jun 2026	Miriam Hernandez-Kakol	Independent Director	Other Acquisition	+1,078	–	5,617
10 Jun 2026	Ara Hovnanian	Chairperson & CEO	Derivative Exercise and Sale	-16,576	$120.87	856,523
10 Jun 2026	Ara Hovnanian	Chairperson & CEO	Derivative Exercise and Retained	+28,224	–	856,523

From Form 4/Form 144 filings. Negative share counts are disposals (sales, gifts, or shares withheld for taxes); positive are acquisitions.

Short interest, by report

Report date	Shares short	% of float	Days to cover
15 Sep 2026	433,768	7.3%	3.9
31 Aug 2026	425,456	7.1%	2.8
14 Aug 2026	360,910	6.2%	3.0
31 Jul 2026	335,120	5.7%	1.9
15 Jul 2026	330,290	5.6%	3.2
30 Jun 2026	325,534	5.6%	1.9

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