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PulteGroup acquires land, develops residential communities and hires independent subcontractors to build homes. Buyers range from first-time purchasers to households moving to another home and older adults seeking active-adult communities. Its brands include Centex, Pulte Homes and Del Webb; Del Webb serves the active-adult market, with many communities restricting residents by age. Home sales provide nearly all revenue.
Many homes are built after a buyer signs a contract and pays a deposit; PulteGroup also builds homes before securing buyers for people who want to move sooner. Signed orders are not guaranteed sales: contracts typically depend on buyers obtaining financing, and some also require them to sell an existing home. Most buyers use mortgages, so affordability and access to financing matter to completed sales.
A smaller financial-services business supports those purchases. Pulte Mortgage makes loans mainly to PulteGroup homebuyers, then sells them to mortgage-market investors rather than holding them long term. Other subsidiaries provide title and closing services and arrange insurance through third-party insurers.
Building depends on suitable land, subcontractor labor and materials. Zoning and housing-density limits constrain where and how much PulteGroup can build. Higher construction costs can squeeze earnings because signed sales contracts generally fix the home price before construction.
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D.R. Horton competes with PulteGroup for U.S. new-home buyers, with both using national scale to secure purchasing and financing advantages. Its completed-home sales offer a comparison for the demand supporting PulteGroup’s homebuilding revenue.
Lennar competes with PulteGroup for homebuyers across many of the same U.S. states, and both earn most of their revenue from building and selling homes. Watch Lennar’s homebuilding revenue as a comparison for demand in their overlapping footprint.
KB Home competes with PulteGroup for first-time and move-up homebuyers in Western, Texas and Southeastern markets. Its sales of new houses, townhomes and condominiums are a useful comparison for demand from those shared buyer groups.
Toll Brothers competes with PulteGroup for move-up and active-adult homebuyers across many of the same states, but focuses on luxury homes. Its sales to these groups offer a comparison for PulteGroup’s demand beyond first-time buyers, including customers served by Del Webb.
NVR competes with PulteGroup for first-time and move-up buyers in overlapping Eastern and Midwestern states; both build and sell homes and provide buyers with mortgages through their own lending businesses. NVR’s mortgage fees and loan-sale revenue depend on its homebuyers, making them another window into the housing sales that support both companies.
Meritage Homes Corporation competes with PulteGroup for entry-level and move-up homebuyers in overlapping Southern and Western states. Its move-in-ready homes and 60-day closing-ready commitment are concrete offerings to watch against PulteGroup’s homes built for buyers seeking quicker availability.
M/I Homes, Inc. competes with PulteGroup by building and selling single-family homes and townhomes to first-time, move-up and older buyers. Its homebuilding revenue is the clearest comparison for that shared demand, accounting for 97% of its consolidated revenue in both 2025 and 2024.
CENTURY COMMUNITIES, INC. competes with PulteGroup for entry-level and move-up homebuyers in Texas, the Southeast and the West. Watch its Century Complete brand’s entry-level homes, generally sold without options or upgrades, as a distinct competing offer for those buyers.
Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. competes with PulteGroup for first-time, move-up and active-lifestyle buyers across overlapping regions, building and selling houses, townhomes and condominiums. Its sales to these groups offer a comparison for the breadth of demand across PulteGroup’s buyer mix.
Dream Finders Homes, Inc. competes with PulteGroup for entry-level, move-up and active-adult homebuyers in overlapping Florida, Southeastern, Texas and Western markets. Watch its net home sales—sales less cancellations of existing contracts—as a comparison for demand, noting that it also sells homes to investors through built-for-rent contracts.
Beazer Homes competes with PulteGroup for entry-level, move-up and active-adult buyers in overlapping U.S. markets. Its Gatherings brand’s lower-maintenance condominiums, villas, duets and single-family homes are a competing offer to watch alongside PulteGroup’s Del Webb communities.
LGI Homes, Inc. competes with PulteGroup’s Centex and other brands for entry-level homebuyers and also builds and sells active-adult homes. Its primary focus on entry-level buyers makes its home sales a more focused comparison for that part of PulteGroup’s demand.
Green Brick Partners, Inc competes for new-home buyers in Texas, Georgia and Florida, where PulteGroup also builds and sells homes. Its home-sales income in those three states offers a regional comparison rather than a read on PulteGroup’s entire U.S. business.
Builders FirstSource’s demand follows the residential construction activity that generates PulteGroup’s home sales: it makes and sells framing components and other materials to professional builders. Watch demand for its trusses, wall panels and framing packages as a construction indicator, not evidence of a direct supply relationship with PulteGroup.
Forestar’s lot sales follow the new-home construction demand that drives PulteGroup’s land investment and home sales: it buys land, develops it into finished single-family residential lots and sells them to homebuilders. Watch builders’ demand for those finished lots, without assuming PulteGroup is a customer.
Smith Douglas Homes Corp. competes with PulteGroup’s entry-level homes in Southeastern and Texas markets, building and selling single-family homes primarily to entry-level and empty-nest buyers. Its homes generally priced below Federal Housing Administration loan limits offer a focused comparison for the affordable end of PulteGroup’s demand.
Housing Starts (Sep)
PulteGroup acquires land, develops communities, and builds homes to sell, so readings on home building and new-home sales indicate whether demand may support its closings and revenue or leave its land investment harder to recover.
Expected1.31MLast release1.275M
If it comes in above expectations
If the reading is above the 1.31M estimate, it is above the previous 1.275M. More homes started or permitted than expected point to stronger building activity, which may support demand for PulteGroup’s homes, its closings and revenue; stronger new-home sales likewise signal demand that can help it sell homes and recover land investment.
If it comes in below expectations
Fewer homes started or permitted than expected point to weaker building activity, which may weigh on demand for PulteGroup’s homes, closings and revenue; weaker new-home sales may also leave its land investment harder to recover.
M/I Homes, Inc. earningsMHO
M/I Homes’ report will show whether demand is holding up among the new-home buyers it shares with PulteGroup.
Watch M/I Homes’ homebuilding revenue, not as a stand-in for PulteGroup’s results but as a read on shared buyers. Stronger revenue would indicate that first-time, move-up and older buyers the builders compete for are still purchasing; weaker revenue would point to cooling demand in those shared markets, a less supportive backdrop for PulteGroup.
Pultegroup, Inc. earningsThis company
PulteGroup’s report will show whether buyer demand can support new-home orders and closings without deeper incentives to secure sales.
Read new orders and cancellations alongside closings, average selling price and home-sale gross margin. Steady orders and closings with a stable margin would show buyers are purchasing with less incentive support, sustaining both volume and profit. Weaker orders or closings alongside a margin decline as incentives deepen would show that sales need greater price support, squeezing profitability.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
PulteGroup sells homes mostly to mortgage-financed buyers, so policy-rate moves that feed into borrowing costs can change what buyers can afford, how many homes PulteGroup closes, and the mortgage services it earns fees from.
Expected4.0%Last release4.0%
If it comes in above expectations
If the policy rate is higher than expected, higher borrowing costs may make PulteGroup homes less affordable, reducing sales and closings and the home-loan activity that supports its mortgage services.
If it comes in below expectations
If the policy rate is lower than expected, cheaper borrowing may improve buyers’ affordability, supporting PulteGroup home sales and closings as well as mortgage-service activity tied to those buyers.
Forestar Group Inc. earningsFOR
Forestar’s report will show whether builders’ demand for finished residential lots is strengthening or weakening, a read on the land market relevant to PulteGroup’s development pipeline.
Watch Forestar’s sales of finished residential lots. Stronger sales would show builders are buying prepared sites for future construction, a more supportive land-market signal for PulteGroup’s efforts to secure development lots. Weaker sales would suggest builders are more cautious and the environment for securing suitable lots may be less favorable. This is an industry signal, not evidence that PulteGroup is a Forestar customer.
