---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-21-028165"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HOV"
cik: "0000357294"
company_name: "HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES INC"
filed_at: "2021-12-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T02:36:37.751295+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hovnanian Q4 pretax profit up 82% to $77.4M; FY pretax up 243% to $190M; FY2022 EPS guidance $26.50-$32.00

## Summary
- Q4 total revenues $814.3M (+19.2% YoY); net income $52.5M ($7.41 diluted EPS).
- FY2021 homebuilding gross margin % after cost of sales interest and land charges 18.6% (up 390 bps).
- Consolidated contract backlog $1.64B (+15.4% YoY); community count 140 (+17% sequential).
- FY2022 guidance: revenues $2.80-$3.00B, adjusted pretax income $260-$310M, EPS $26.50-$32.00.
- Liquidity $380.9M; retired $181M secured notes; board reinstated $2.7M preferred dividend.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-21-028165
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HOV
- cik: 0000357294
- company_name: HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES INC
- filed_at: 2021-12-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/357294/000143774921028165/0001437749-21-028165-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/357294/000143774921028165/hov20211207_8k.htm

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