KB Home (KBH) Historical Volatility

Tracking KBH historical volatility helps you see how much KB Home's stock price has actually moved over past periods, giving you a baseline to judge whether current option premiums are fair, cheap, or expensive. While implied volatility tells you what the market expects, KB Home's HV tells you what really happened. Use our scanner to monitor KBH 30 day historical volatility alongside longer lookback windows and spot the moments when realized and implied diverge.

Historical volatility is the annualized standard deviation of an underlying's past returns, typically measured over rolling windows like 10, 20, 30, or 60 days. The KBH 30 day historical volatility is one of the most widely watched readings because it balances responsiveness with stability. Comparing KB Home's HV to its implied volatility reveals the volatility risk premium — when IV sits well above HV, option sellers tend to have an edge; when HV runs hot relative to IV, buyers may be underpaying for movement.

KB Home operates as a homebuilding company in the United States. It operates through four segments: West Coast, Southwest, Central, and Southeast. It builds and sells various homes, including attached and detached single-family residential homes, townhomes, and condominiums primarily for first-time, first move-up, second move-up, and active adult homebuyers. The company also offers financial services, such as insurance products and title services. It has operations in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, and Washington. The company was formerly known as Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation and changed its name to KB Home in January 2001.

KB Home was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Sizing a long premium trade, modeling a covered call, or hunting volatility arbitrage all come back to one question: how much has the stock actually moved? Our scanner puts KB Home's historical volatility side-by-side with implied readings across every lookback window, so you can see exactly where KBH HV is running hot, cold, or in line. Make the KBH 30 day historical volatility — and every other window — work for your edge instead of against it.