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PulteGroup Reports Fourth Quarter 2025 Financial Results

  • Reported Earnings Per Share of $2.56
  • Net New Orders Increased 4% to 6,428 Homes with a Value of $3.5 Billion
  • Closings of 7,821 Homes Generated Home Sale Revenues of $4.5 Billion
  • Home Sale Gross Margin of 24.7% Includes $35 Million, or 80 Basis Points, of Land Impairment Charges
  • Invested $1.4 Billion in Land Acquisition and Development and Repurchased $300 Million of Common Shares in the Quarter

PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE: PHM) announced today financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2025. For the quarter, the Company reported net income of $502 million, or $2.56 per share. Reported net income for the period includes: a pre-tax charge of $81 million, or $0.31 per share, associated with the intended divestiture of certain manufacturing assets; pre-tax land impairment charges totaling $35 million, or $0.14 per share; and a pre-tax insurance benefit of $34 million, or $0.13 per share. In the prior year period, the Company reported net income of $913 million, or $4.43 per share, inclusive of a pre-tax insurance benefit of $255 million, or $0.93 per share.

“PulteGroup’s fourth quarter and full year financial results reflect our balanced and disciplined approach to the business as we continue to successfully navigate today’s continuously shifting market dynamics,” said PulteGroup President and CEO, Ryan Marshall. “Inclusive of our strong fourth quarter results, in 2025 PulteGroup delivered 29,572 homes, $16.7 billion in home sale revenues and net income of $2.2 billion. We finished the year with $2.0 billion in cash, after investing $5.2 billion in land acquisition and development in 2025.

“While lower interest rates and more favorable pricing dynamics have worked to improve the overall affordability of new homes relative to a year ago, lagging consumer confidence continued to weigh on homebuyer demand in the quarter. Given these market dynamics, we remain focused on intelligently turning our assets, generating strong cash flows, and further developing a land pipeline that can routinely support community count growth of 3% to 5% annually.”

Fourth Quarter Results

Fourth quarter home sale revenues of $4.5 billion were 5% lower than the comparable prior year period. Home sale revenues for the quarter reflect a 3% decrease in closings to 7,821 homes, in combination with a 1% decrease in average sales price to $573,000.

The Company’s reported fourth quarter home sale gross margin of 24.7% includes $35 million, or 80 basis points, of land impairment charges recorded in the period. Prior year fourth quarter gross margin was 27.5%.

Reported fourth quarter homebuilding SG&A expense of $389 million, or 8.7% of home sale revenues, includes the insurance benefit of $34 million recorded in the period. Homebuilding SG&A expense in the fourth quarter of 2024 was $196 million, or 4.2% of home sale revenues, inclusive of an insurance benefit of $255 million.

In the quarter, the Company reported Other Expense of $99 million which includes the pre-tax charge of $81 million resulting from the intended divestiture of certain manufacturing assets.

Net new orders for the fourth quarter were 6,428 homes, which is an increase of 4% over the fourth quarter of 2024. The value of net new orders in the period was $3.5 billion, which is comparable with the prior year. Average community count for the fourth quarter was 1,014, which is an increase of 6% over the prior year.

At the end of the fourth quarter, the Company’s backlog totaled 8,495 homes with a value of $5.3 billion.

The Company's financial services operations generated fourth quarter pre-tax income of $35 million, which is down from $51 million in the comparable prior year period. Reported pre-tax income for the quarter was impacted by lower closing volumes and average selling prices in the Company’s homebuilding operations, as well as a decrease in mortgage capture rate to 84%, compared with 86% in the prior year.

In the fourth quarter, PulteGroup repurchased 2.4 million common shares for $300 million. For the full year, the Company repurchased a total of 10.6 million common shares, or 5.2% of shares outstanding, for $1.2 billion, or $112.76 per share. The Company ended the quarter with $2.0 billion of cash and a debt-to-capital ratio of 11.2%.

A conference call discussing PulteGroup's fourth quarter 2025 results is scheduled for Thursday, January 29, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. Interested investors can access the live webcast via PulteGroup's corporate website at www.pultegroupinc.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This release includes “forward-looking statements.” These statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results, performance, prospects or opportunities, as well as those of the markets we serve or intend to serve, to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these statements. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate to matters of a strictly factual or historical nature and generally discuss or relate to forecasts, estimates or other expectations regarding future events. Generally, the words “believe,” “expect,” “intend,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “plan,” “project,” “may,” “can,” “could,” “might,” “should,” “will” and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, including statements related to any potential impairment charges and the impacts or effects thereof, expected operating and performing results, planned transactions, planned objectives of management, future developments or conditions in the industries in which we participate and other trends, developments and uncertainties that may affect our business in the future.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, among other things: interest rate changes and the availability of mortgage financing; the impact of any changes to our strategy in responding to the cyclical nature of the industry or deteriorations in industry conditions or downward changes in general economic or other business conditions, including any changes regarding our land positions and the levels of our land spend; economic changes nationally or in our local markets, including inflation, deflation, changes in consumer confidence and preferences and the state of the market for homes in general; supply shortages and the cost of labor and building materials; the availability and cost of land and other raw materials used by us in our homebuilding operations; a decline in the value of the land and home inventories we maintain and resulting possible future writedowns of the carrying value of our real estate assets; competition within the industries in which we operate; rapidly changing technological developments including, but not limited to, the use of artificial intelligence in the homebuilding industry; governmental regulation directed at or affecting the housing market, the homebuilding industry or construction activities, slow growth initiatives and/or local building moratoria; the availability and cost of insurance covering risks associated with our businesses, including warranty and other legal or regulatory proceedings or claims; damage from improper acts of persons over whom we do not have control or attempts to impose liabilities or obligations of third parties on us; weather related slowdowns; the impact of climate change and related governmental regulation; adverse capital and credit market conditions, which may affect our access to and cost of capital; the insufficiency of our income tax provisions and tax reserves, including as a result of changing laws or interpretations; the potential that we do not realize our deferred tax assets; our inability to sell mortgages into the secondary market; uncertainty in the mortgage lending industry, including revisions to underwriting standards and repurchase requirements associated with the sale of mortgage loans, and related claims against us; risks associated with the implementation of a new enterprise resource planning system; risks related to information technology failures, data security issues, and the effect of cybersecurity incidents and threats; the impact of negative publicity on sales; failure to retain key personnel; the impairment of our intangible assets; disruptions associated with epidemics, pandemics or other serious public health threats (as well as fear of such events), and the measures taken to address it; the effect of cybersecurity incidents and threats; and other factors of national, regional and global scale, including those of a political, economic, business and competitive nature. See Item 1A – Risk Factors in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, for a further discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties applicable to our businesses. We undertake no duty to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or changes in our expectations.

About PulteGroup

PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE: PHM), based in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of America’s largest homebuilding companies with operations in more than 45 markets throughout the country. Through its brand portfolio that includes Centex, Pulte Homes, Del Webb, DiVosta Homes, and John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods, the company is one of the industry’s most versatile homebuilders able to meet the needs of multiple buyer groups and respond to changing consumer demand. PulteGroup’s purpose is building incredible places where people can live their dreams.

For more information about PulteGroup, Inc. and PulteGroup brands, go to pultegroup.com; pulte.com; centex.com; delwebb.com; divosta.com; and jwhomes.com. Follow PulteGroup, Inc. on X: @PulteGroupNews.

 

PulteGroup, Inc.

Consolidated Results of Operations

($000's omitted, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

Year Ended

 

December 31,

 

December 31,

 

2025

 

2024

 

2025

 

2024

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homebuilding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Home sale revenues

$

4,477,903

 

 

$

4,707,540

 

 

$

16,743,522

 

 

$

17,318,521

 

Land sale and other revenues

 

39,419

 

 

 

99,108

 

 

 

179,764

 

 

 

195,435

 

 

 

4,517,322

 

 

 

4,806,648

 

 

 

16,923,286

 

 

 

17,513,956

 

Financial Services

 

93,426

 

 

 

115,146

 

 

 

388,667

 

 

 

432,994

 

Total revenues

 

4,610,748

 

 

 

4,921,794

 

 

 

17,311,953

 

 

 

17,946,950

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homebuilding Cost of Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Home sale cost of revenues

 

(3,373,309

)

 

 

(3,413,930

)

 

 

(12,341,421

)

 

 

(12,311,766

)

Land sale and other cost of revenues

 

(36,537

)

 

 

(88,690

)

 

 

(166,041

)

 

 

(189,893

)

 

 

(3,409,846

)

 

 

(3,502,620

)

 

 

(12,507,462

)

 

 

(12,501,659

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Financial Services expenses

 

(58,409

)

 

 

(64,471

)

 

 

(231,887

)

 

 

(224,086

)

Selling, general, and administrative expenses

 

(389,457

)

 

 

(195,640

)

 

 

(1,573,928

)

 

 

(1,321,276

)

Equity income from unconsolidated entities, net

 

814

 

 

 

1,625

 

 

 

4,147

 

 

 

44,201

 

Other income (expense), net

 

(98,611

)

 

 

22,040

 

 

 

(91,502

)

 

 

61,749

 

Income before income taxes

 

655,239

 

 

 

1,182,728

 

 

 

2,911,321

 

 

 

4,005,879

 

Income tax expense

 

(153,625

)

 

 

(269,489

)

 

 

(692,591

)

 

 

(922,617

)

Net income

$

501,614

 

 

$

913,239

 

 

$

2,218,730

 

 

$

3,083,262

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income per share:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

$

2.58

 

 

$

4.47

 

 

$

11.21

 

 

$

14.82

 

Diluted

$

2.56

 

 

$

4.43

 

 

$

11.12

 

 

$

14.69

 

Cash dividends declared

$

0.26

 

 

$

0.22

 

 

$

0.92

 

 

$

0.82

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Number of shares used in calculation:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

194,140

 

 

 

204,339

 

 

 

197,966

 

 

 

208,107

 

Effect of dilutive securities

 

1,640

 

 

 

1,841

 

 

 

1,571

 

 

 

1,722

 

Diluted

 

195,780

 

 

 

206,180

 

 

 

199,537

 

 

 

209,829

 

 

PulteGroup, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

($000's omitted)

(Unaudited)

 

 

December 31,

2025

 

December 31,

2024

 

 

 

 

ASSETS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and equivalents

$

1,980,869

 

$

1,613,327

Restricted cash

 

27,907

 

 

40,353

Total cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash

 

2,008,776

 

 

1,653,680

House and land inventory

 

12,925,413

 

 

12,692,820

Residential mortgage loans available-for-sale

 

613,665

 

 

629,582

Investments in unconsolidated entities

 

167,342

 

 

215,416

Other assets

 

2,217,483

 

 

2,001,991

Goodwill

 

40,377

 

 

68,930

Other intangible assets

 

26,210

 

 

46,303

Deferred tax assets

 

49,157

 

 

55,041

 

$

18,048,423

 

$

17,363,763

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liabilities:

 

 

 

Accounts payable

$

724,885

 

$

727,995

Customer deposits

 

387,837

 

 

512,580

Deferred tax liabilities

 

448,493

 

 

443,566

Accrued and other liabilities

 

1,338,330

 

 

1,412,166

Financial Services debt

 

532,338

 

 

526,906

Notes payable

 

1,631,098

 

 

1,618,586

Total liabilities

 

5,062,981

 

 

5,241,799

Shareholders' equity

 

12,985,442

 

 

12,121,964

 

$

18,048,423

 

$

17,363,763

 

PulteGroup, Inc.

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

($000's omitted)

(Unaudited)

 

 

Year Ended

 

December 31,

 

2025

 

2024

Cash flows from operating activities:

 

 

 

Net income

$

2,218,730

 

 

$

3,083,262

 

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash from operating activities:

 

 

 

Deferred income tax expense

 

10,779

 

 

 

151,097

 

Land-related charges

 

126,914

 

 

 

34,572

 

Goodwill impairment

 

28,553

 

 

 

 

Property and equipment impairments

 

49,629

 

 

 

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

112,507

 

 

 

89,162

 

Equity income from unconsolidated entities

 

(4,147

)

 

 

(44,201

)

Distributions of earnings from unconsolidated entities

 

4,222

 

 

 

2,557

 

Share-based compensation expense

 

54,823

 

 

 

54,690

 

Other, net

 

311

 

 

 

(13,460

)

Increase (decrease) in cash due to:

 

 

 

Inventories

 

(213,372

)

 

 

(787,475

)

Residential mortgage loans available-for-sale

 

15,917

 

 

 

(113,327

)

Other assets

 

(293,904

)

 

 

(489,623

)

Accounts payable, accrued and other liabilities

 

(239,713

)

 

 

(286,460

)

Net cash provided by operating activities

 

1,871,249

 

 

 

1,680,794

 

Cash flows from investing activities:

 

 

 

Capital expenditures

 

(122,716

)

 

 

(118,545

)

Investments in unconsolidated entities

 

(15,744

)

 

 

(16,037

)

Distributions of capital from unconsolidated entities

 

63,743

 

 

 

9,179

 

Other investing activities, net

 

(5,707

)

 

 

30,927

 

Net cash used in investing activities

 

(80,424

)

 

 

(94,476

)

Cash flows from financing activities:

 

 

 

Repayments of notes payable

 

(24,508

)

 

 

(355,826

)

Financial Services borrowings, net

 

5,432

 

 

 

27,279

 

Debt issuance costs

 

(1,446

)

 

 

(1,534

)

Proceeds from liabilities related to consolidated inventory not owned

 

44,095

 

 

 

50,047

 

Payments related to consolidated inventory not owned

 

(46,733

)

 

 

(105,787

)

Share repurchases

 

(1,199,996

)

 

 

(1,199,999

)

Excise tax on share repurchases

 

(11,550

)

 

 

(9,691

)

Cash paid for shares withheld for taxes

 

(24,339

)

 

 

(18,597

)

Dividends paid

 

(176,684

)

 

 

(167,707

)

Net cash used in financing activities

 

(1,435,729

)

 

 

(1,781,815

)

Net increase (decrease)

 

355,096

 

 

 

(195,497

)

Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at beginning of period

 

1,653,680

 

 

 

1,849,177

 

Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash at end of period

$

2,008,776

 

 

$

1,653,680

 

 

 

 

 

Supplemental Cash Flow Information:

 

 

 

Interest paid (capitalized), net

$

17,248

 

 

$

26,052

 

Income taxes paid, net

$

698,756

 

 

$

739,680

 

 
 

PulteGroup, Inc.

Segment Data

($000's omitted)

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

Year Ended

 

December 31,

 

December 31,

 

2025

 

2024

 

2025

 

2024

HOMEBUILDING:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Home sale revenues

$

4,477,903

 

 

$

4,707,540

 

 

$

16,743,522

 

 

$

17,318,521

 

Land sale and other revenues

 

39,419

 

 

 

99,108

 

 

 

179,764

 

 

 

195,435

 

Total Homebuilding revenues

 

4,517,322

 

 

 

4,806,648

 

 

 

16,923,286

 

 

 

17,513,956

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Home sale cost of revenues

 

(3,373,309

)

 

 

(3,413,930

)

 

 

(12,341,421

)

 

 

(12,311,766

)

Land sale cost of revenues

 

(36,537

)

 

 

(88,690

)

 

 

(166,041

)

 

 

(189,893

)

Selling, general, and administrative expenses

 

(389,457

)

 

 

(195,640

)

 

 

(1,573,928

)

 

 

(1,321,276

)

Equity income from unconsolidated entities

 

814

 

 

 

1,625

 

 

 

2,897

 

 

 

43,151

 

Other income (expense), net

 

(98,611

)

 

 

22,043

 

 

 

(91,502

)

 

 

61,752

 

Income before income taxes

$

620,222

 

 

$

1,132,056

 

 

$

2,753,291

 

 

$

3,795,924

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FINANCIAL SERVICES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income before income taxes

$

35,017

 

 

$

50,672

 

 

$

158,030

 

 

$

209,955

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONSOLIDATED:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income before income taxes

$

655,239

 

 

$

1,182,728

 

 

$

2,911,321

 

 

$

4,005,879

 

 

PulteGroup, Inc.

Segment Data, continued

($000's omitted)

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

Year Ended

 

December 31,

 

December 31,

 

2025

 

2024

 

2025

 

2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Home sale revenues

$

4,477,903

 

$

4,707,540

 

$

16,743,522

 

$

17,318,521

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Closings - units

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Northeast

 

451

 

 

464

 

 

1,649

 

 

1,518

Southeast

 

1,559

 

 

1,413

 

 

5,598

 

 

5,697

Florida

 

1,978

 

 

1,855

 

 

7,442

 

 

7,906

Midwest

 

1,351

 

 

1,370

 

 

5,026

 

 

4,750

Texas

 

1,022

 

 

1,167

 

 

4,352

 

 

5,452

West

 

1,460

 

 

1,834

 

 

5,505

 

 

5,896

 

 

7,821

 

 

8,103

 

 

29,572

 

 

31,219

Average selling price

$

573

 

$

581

 

$

566

 

$

555

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net new orders - units

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Northeast

 

382

 

 

340

 

 

1,541

 

 

1,566

Southeast

 

1,322

 

 

1,233

 

 

5,437

 

 

5,363

Florida

 

1,705

 

 

1,510

 

 

7,068

 

 

6,909

Midwest

 

1,025

 

 

1,088

 

 

4,829

 

 

4,860

Texas

 

928

 

 

900

 

 

4,195

 

 

4,763

West

 

1,066

 

 

1,096

 

 

4,844

 

 

5,765

 

 

6,428

 

 

6,167

 

 

27,914

 

 

29,226

Net new orders - dollars

$

3,513,461

 

$

3,507,496

 

$

15,518,916

 

$

16,493,524

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

 

 

2025

 

2024

Unit backlog

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Northeast

 

 

 

 

 

507

 

 

615

Southeast

 

 

 

 

 

1,751

 

 

1,912

Florida

 

 

 

 

 

2,421

 

 

2,795

Midwest

 

 

 

 

 

1,605

 

 

1,802

Texas

 

 

 

 

 

791

 

 

948

West

 

 

 

 

 

1,420

 

 

2,081

 

 

 

 

 

 

8,495

 

 

10,153

Dollars in backlog

 

 

 

 

$

5,270,112

 

$

6,494,718

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PulteGroup, Inc.

Segment Data, continued

($000's omitted)

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

Year Ended

 

December 31,

 

December 31,

 

2025

 

2024

 

2025

 

2024

MORTGAGE ORIGINATIONS:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Origination volume

 

4,940

 

 

 

5,328

 

 

 

18,977

 

 

 

19,770

 

Origination principal

$

2,143,793

 

 

$

2,342,489

 

 

$

8,229,007

 

 

$

8,340,836

 

Capture rate

 

83.6

%

 

 

85.9

%

 

 

84.7

%

 

 

85.9

%

 
 

Supplemental Data

($000's omitted)

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended

 

Year Ended

 

December 31,

 

December 31,

 

2025

 

2024

 

2025

 

2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest in inventory, beginning of period

$

131,564

 

 

$

146,097

 

 

$

139,960

 

 

$

139,078

 

Interest capitalized

 

26,118

 

 

 

26,069

 

 

 

104,479

 

 

 

112,416

 

Interest expensed

 

(35,355

)

 

 

(32,206

)

 

 

(122,112

)

 

 

(111,534

)

Interest in inventory, end of period

$

122,327

 

 

$

139,960

 

 

$

122,327

 

 

$

139,960

 

 

PulteGroup, Inc.

Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

(Unaudited)

This report contains information about our debt-to-capital ratios. These measures could be considered non-GAAP financial measures under the SEC's rules and should be considered in addition to, rather than as a substitute for, comparable GAAP financial measures. We calculate total net debt by subtracting total cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash from notes payable to present the amount of assets needed to satisfy the debt. We use the debt-to-capital and net debt-to-capital ratios as indicators of our overall leverage and believe they are useful financial measures in understanding the leverage employed in our operations. We believe that these measures provide investors relevant and useful information for evaluating the comparability of financial information presented and comparing our profitability and liquidity to other companies in the homebuilding industry. Although other companies in the homebuilding industry report similar information, the methods used may differ. We urge investors to understand the methods used by other companies in the homebuilding industry to calculate these measures and any adjustments thereto before comparing our measures to those of such other companies.

The following table sets forth a reconciliation of the debt-to-capital ratios ($000's omitted):

Debt-to-Capital Ratios

 

 

December 31,

 

 

2025

 

2024

Notes payable

 

$

1,631,098

 

 

$

1,618,586

 

Shareholders' equity

 

 

12,985,442

 

 

 

12,121,964

 

Total capital

 

$

14,616,540

 

 

$

13,740,550

 

Debt-to-capital ratio

 

 

11.2

%

 

 

11.8

%

 

 

 

 

 

Notes payable

 

$

1,631,098

 

 

$

1,618,586

 

Less: Total cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash

 

 

(2,008,776

)

 

 

(1,653,680

)

Total net debt

 

$

(377,678

)

 

$

(35,094

)

Shareholders' equity

 

 

12,985,442

 

 

 

12,121,964

 

Total net capital

 

$

12,607,764

 

 

$

12,086,870

 

Net debt-to-capital ratio

 

 

(3.0

)%

 

 

(0.3

)%

 

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