D.R. Horton recently increased its dividend payout by over 10 percent during the earnings season. This move highlights the company's strong capital return to shareholders amidst varying market conditions.
The No. 1 homebuilder's 2027 plan targets starts restraint and share buybacks, a cue other builders may heed
HousingWire published a quarterly earnings roundup covering major mortgage lenders, real estate firms, and homebuilders. D.R. Horton is part of the broader industry context tracked by investors.
D.R. Horton reported fourth-quarter and fiscal year 2026 results, highlighting that rising mortgage rates and affordability hurdles led to lower net sales orders and closings as demand softened.
D.R. Horton signed a multi-year commercial agreement with Promise Robotics to utilize robotic factory capacity for homebuilding. This partnership highlights the homebuilder's strategic integration of new construction technologies.
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. D.R. Horton, the nation’s largest homebuilder by volume, has signed a multiyear commercial agreement with Promise Robotics to use the startup’s robotic factory capacity on more than 1,250 homes. The deal, announced October 13, makes D.R. Horton the first major U.S. builder to sign on to Promise Robotics’s factory-as-a-service model. On a typical jobsite, framing crews build walls by hand, cutting studs, nailing them together, and standing them up on the foundation. That labor-intensive, weather-dependent work is where builders feel labor shortages most. Promise Robotics moves much of the framing into a factory, where robots assemble wall panels from the builder’s existing plans. The panels are then trucked to the site and set in place, which is far faster than framing from scratch. D.R. Horton closed 84,863 homes in fiscal 2025, so the around 1,250 homes planned with Promise Robotics amount to about 1.5% of a single year’s volume. To start, this looks more like a measured test than a wholesale shift in how D.R. Horton builds. In metro Phoenix, where Promise Robotics tells ResiClub all the 1,250 homes will be built and located, it’s a different story: 1,250 homes is more than half a year of D.R. Horton’s recent annual combined closings across Arizona’s Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima counties. The structure of the deal matters, too. D.R. Horton isn’t buying robots or building a factory. It’s renting automated production capacity from a third party that owns the plants, the software, and the robotics—and that says it can now replicate the model market by market, starting with a factory in Gilbert, Arizona. The deal Under the agreement, D.R. Horton will tap the Promise Robotics production platform to help build 1,250-plus homes. The companies did not disclose financial terms, a delivery timeline, or which Phoenix communities the homes will go to. Brad C
MarketBeat discusses how high mortgage rates are freezing the broader housing market and mentions D.R. Horton as a builder with financing advantages. This context helps investors evaluate the broader housing sector and macroeconomic impacts on homebuilders.
D.R. Horton beat fourth-quarter revenue expectations despite challenging macroeconomic conditions and housing market headwinds, while preserving stable book value growth.
D.R. Horton signed a multiyear commercial agreement with Promise Robotics to leverage factory-as-a-service robotics for framing over 1,250 homes. This move highlights the residential construction giant's strategy to combat labor shortages and modernize manufacturing.
Reporting its fourth-quarter and fiscal 2026 results, D.R. Horton warned that persistent high mortgage rates and affordability hurdles will continue weighing on the housing market into 2027. The nation's largest homebuilder expects flat to lower sales volume as it manages cautious consumer demand.
Forestar Group Inc. announced the retirement of Donald J. Tomnitz and the appointment of Anthony W. Oxley as Executive Chairman and CEO. This leadership transition provides stability and continuity for the residential real estate development sector.
New capability helps HR leaders keep up with pay transparency changes and fast-moving labor markets As pay transparency requirements expand across the U.S. and labor markets continue to shift, employers are facing greater pressure to explain how pay decisions are made. Catch more HRTech Insights: HRTech Interview with Elizabeth Andora, Chief People Officer at DHI […] The post Brightmine Launches Dynamic Pay Data to Strengthen Salary Benchmarking appeared first on TecHR.
arXiv:2610.30940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate estimation of diffuse horizontal irradiance (DHI) is critical for optimising photovoltaic system performance and energy forecasting yet remains challenging in regions lacking comprehensive ground-based instrumentation. Recent advancements using Vision Transformers (ViTs) trained on extensive sky image datasets have shown promise in replacing costly irradiance measurement equipment, but the scarcity of long-term, high-quality sky imagery significantly restricts practical implementation. Addressing this critical gap, this study proposes a novel dual-framework approach designed for data-scarce scenarios. First, calculated atmospheric parameters, including extraterrestrial irradiance and cyclic time encodings, are integrated to represent sky conditions without utilising any instrumentation. Next, a sequential pipeline initially predicts synthetic global horizontal irradiance (GHI) and uses it as a feature, to refine DHI estimation. Finally, a dual-parallel architecture simultaneously processes raw and overlay-enhanced fisheye sky images. Overlays are generated through unsupervised, physics-informed cloud segmentation to highlight dynamic sky features. Empirical validation is performed using data from the Chilbolton Observatory, chosen for its temperate climate and frequent cloud variability. To simulate data-scarce conditions, models are trained on a single month (e.g., January) and evaluated across a temporally disjoint, full-year test set. Under this setup, the sequential and dual-parallel frameworks achieve RMSE values within 2-3 W/m^2 and 1-6 W/m^2, respectively, of a state-of-the-art ViT trained on the complete dataset. By combining physics-informed modelling with unsupervised segmentation, the proposed method provides a scalable and cost-effective solution for DHI estimation, advancing solar resource assessment in data-constrained environments.
D.R. Horton recognized several key partners for their contributions to the new Altama master-planned community. This highlights ongoing real estate development and residential construction activity for the company.
An examination of D.R. Horton's recent stock decline as Treasury yields hover near 5.1%, noting that upcoming late-October fiscal results and guidance will serve as critical tests for the residential construction giant amid a cooling housing market.
DHI Corp. has relocated its headquarters from Mequon to the former Milwaukee Film office. This local relocation does not impact the homebuilding operations of D.R. Horton.
Rising mortgage rates are causing divergence among homebuilder stocks as D.R. Horton experiences rising cancellations among first-time buyers. This highlights challenges in the affordable housing segment compared to luxury builders.
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