Company: LEN
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-016792
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Company: LENNAR CORP /NEW/
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 8
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 asset-light configuration. The Millrose spin-off completed the backbone of that effort. With Millrose operational, we have a strong complement of land bank partners that undertake land acquisition and land development and provide just-in-time delivery of finished homesites that enables us to act almost entirely as a manufacturer of homes. As with all of our trade partners, our land partners will benefit from our consistent and predictable volume, which will be reflected in reduced costs to us.

To date, tariffs have had no impact on our costs. However, we have recently been discussing the potential impact of tariffs with our supply chain, including working on alternative sourcing strategies and preparing our trade partners to absorb potential increases in their costs due to tariffs. Similarly, to date we have encountered no labor disruptions due to immigration enforcement policies.

In summary, the housing market has softened as affordability and consumer confidence have limited actionable demand. Incentives have been increasing, and net housing prices seem to be moderating. At very least, housing will not be contributing to inflationary pressures, and while demand is constrained, supply is equally limited.

We expect to sell in the second quarter of 2025 between 22,500 and 23,500 homes and to deliver between 19,500 and 20,500 homes. We expect our margin to be approximately 18%, depending on market conditions. We are focused on driving sales and closings to create strong cash flow, even at reduced profitability, while maintaining properly sized inventory levels, so that as market conditions stabilize or improve, we will benefit from normalized margins across our volume.  

While the short-term road ahead may still seem choppy, we are optimistic about the longer-term outlook. We have continued to drive production to meet the housing shortage that we know persists across the markets. As and when homebuyer interest normalizes, we believe pent-up demand will be activated and our margins will quickly recover. As we complete our asset-light transformation, we expect to continue to generate cash flow which we can return to stockholders through dividends and stock buybacks, while continuing to pursue strategic growth.

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(1) Results of Operations

Overview

We historically have experienced, and expect to continue to experience, variability in quarterly results. Our results of operations for the three months ended February 28, 2025 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year. Our homebuilding business is seasonal in nature and generally reflects higher levels of new home order activity in our second and third fiscal quarters and increased deliveries in the second half of our fiscal