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Home builder Lennar profit drops 70%
Tuesday, 27 March 2007

Company scraps outlook as profit falls
Lennar's performance was a key factor for stocks on Tuesday, given the market's high sensitivity to housing and the troubles in the subprime mortgage arena. Futures on the S&P 500 index weakened immediately after the results were announced. U.S. home sales fell unexpectedly in February, data released on Monday showed, hitting their lowest level in nearly seven years and raising concerns the troubled housing sector had not yet hit bottom.

Home builder Lennar profit drops 70%Company scraps outlook as profit falls
Reuters

March 27, 2007

NEW YORK -- Lennar Corp.(NYSE:LEN), the No. 3 U.S. home builder, said on Tuesday quarterly profit tumbled a further-than-expected 70%, reflecting the downward spiral of the U.S. housing market.

The company does not expect to achieve its 2007 earnings goal and did not set a new target. It said the subprime lending crisis exacerbated housing market weakness.

"Until we see prices stabilize... we will not be able to project the timing or the scope of margin recovery," Stuart Miller, president and chief executive officer, said in a statement.

       A file photo of construction workers putting up second story framing as they build homes, November 17, 2005.
A file photo of construction workers putting up second
story framing as they build homes, November 17, 2005.

For the fiscal first quarter ended February 28, Lennar said it earned US$68.6-million, or 43 cents per share, down from US$258.1-million, or $1.58 per share in the year earlier quarter.

Analysts had expected it to earn 55 cents per share.

Revenue fell 14% to US$2.8-billion. Homebuilding operating earnings dropped 69% to US$140.0-million and new home orders fell 27% to 7,132 homes.

Lennar's performance was a key factor for stocks on Tuesday, given the market's high sensitivity to housing and the troubles in the subprime mortgage arena.

Futures on the S&P 500 index weakened immediately after the results were announced.

U.S. home sales fell unexpectedly in February, data released on Monday showed, hitting their lowest level in nearly seven years and raising concerns the troubled housing sector had not yet hit bottom.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/homebuyers/story.html?id=69a14e6c-da71-4f1b-95f1-c4e2ea894eec&k=91453

 
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