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Legacy Housing Corp (LEGH)
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Legacy Housing (LEGH) AI Stock Analysis

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Legacy Housing

(NASDAQ:LEGH)

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Outperform 72 (OpenAI - 5.2)
Rating:72Outperform
Price Target:
$22.50
▲(3.93% Upside)
Action:UpgradedDate:04/01/26
The score is driven primarily by strong financial strength (very low leverage and solid profitability) and a reasonably modest P/E valuation. This is tempered by weak-to-neutral technicals and an earnings outlook that is positive on 2026 normalization and growth initiatives but still faces near-term volume, margin, and cost headwinds.
Positive Factors
Conservative balance sheet
Very low leverage and a strong equity base give Legacy durable financial flexibility. This reduces solvency risk through housing cycles, supports opportunistic capex or acquisitions, enables share repurchases, and preserves access to credit when demand or margins are pressured.
Negative Factors
Falling revenue and unit volumes
Sustained declines in units and revenue impair operating leverage in a fixed-cost manufacturing model. Lower volumes reduce absorption of factory and SG&A costs, lengthen recovery to prior profit levels, and increase sensitivity to cyclical housing demand over the next several quarters.
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Positive Factors
Negative Factors
Conservative balance sheet
Very low leverage and a strong equity base give Legacy durable financial flexibility. This reduces solvency risk through housing cycles, supports opportunistic capex or acquisitions, enables share repurchases, and preserves access to credit when demand or margins are pressured.
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Legacy Housing (LEGH) vs. SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)

Legacy Housing Business Overview & Revenue Model

Company Description
Legacy Housing Corporation builds, sells, and finances manufactured homes and tiny houses primarily in the southern United States. The company manufactures and provides for the transport of mobile homes; and offers wholesale financing to dealers a...
How the Company Makes Money
Legacy Housing makes money primarily by manufacturing homes and selling them at a margin over its production costs. Its key revenue stream is home sales to wholesale customers such as independent manufactured-home retailers, developers, and manufa...

Legacy Housing Earnings Call Summary

Earnings Call Date:Mar 12, 2026
(Q4-2025)
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Next Earnings Date:May 13, 2026
Earnings Call Sentiment Neutral
The call presented a balanced mix of positive balance-sheet strength, loan-portfolio growth, strong operating cash flow, credit quality and strategic opportunities (workforce/data center demand, share buybacks), against meaningful near-term operating challenges including lower revenue and unit volumes (~20% decline), compressed margins, higher SG&A driven by increased loan loss provisions and transaction costs, significant one-time/recurring comparables that reduced nonoperating income, tariff-driven cost increases, and capacity and labor headwinds. Management emphasized conservative capitalization and opportunistic repurchases while signaling that many cost pressures and reserves that weighed on 2025 are largely recognized and should moderate in 2026.
Positive Updates
Strong cash position and low leverage
Ended 2025 with $8.5 million in cash (up from $1.1 million in 2024) and essentially zero draw on a $50 million revolving credit facility (only $1.2 million drawn). Management highlighted this as a strong position to fund growth.
Negative Updates
Total net revenue decline
Total net revenue declined 10.7% year-over-year to $164.6 million (from $184.2 million in 2024). Product sales fell 9.6% to $116.9 million.
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Q4-2025 Updates
Negative
Strong cash position and low leverage
Ended 2025 with $8.5 million in cash (up from $1.1 million in 2024) and essentially zero draw on a $50 million revolving credit facility (only $1.2 million drawn). Management highlighted this as a strong position to fund growth.
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Company Guidance
Management guided to a constructive 2026 built around higher production and finance growth: they expect to outstrip 2025’s production of 1,549 homes (Texas alone could approach ~1,500 units), with much of the fall-show backlog shifting shipments into Q2 and over 500 workforce-housing orders already taken; consumer loan growth (portfolio was $203.6M, up 14% in 2025) should continue to drive loan interest income (full-year interest was $43.7M; Q4 ~ $11.3M) while credit quality remains strong (>97% current across portfolios); they have largely front-loaded incremental loan loss provisioning (a $4.5M reserve increase in 2025) so SG&A should normalize toward historical levels (low‑to‑mid teens percent of sales) in 2026; balance sheet flexibility (cash $8.5M, near-zero draw on a $50M revolver, operating cash flow $37.2M) supports a $10M share repurchase program; other planning assumptions noted: product gross margin was 27.5% in 2025, tariffs add roughly $1,200 per home (35% on China imports), and management expects industry wholesale pricing to move into the $60s per square foot and longer‑term company growth in the 8–12% range toward a $1B target.

Legacy Housing Financial Statement Overview

Summary
A major strength is the very conservative balance sheet (minimal leverage, strong equity base), supporting low financial risk and flexibility. Profitability remains solid, but recent fundamentals softened with declining revenue and lower earnings. Cash flow improved recently with positive free cash flow, yet operating cash flow has been volatile historically, keeping the score below top-tier.
Income Statement
78
Positive
Balance Sheet
92
Very Positive
Cash Flow
64
Positive
BreakdownDec 2025Dec 2024Dec 2023Dec 2022Dec 2021
Income Statement
Total Revenue164.57M184.19M189.14M257.01M197.51M
Gross Profit79.74M94.12M89.45M106.90M83.46M
EBITDA50.43M78.63M71.39M84.30M63.10M
Net Income41.81M61.64M54.46M67.77M49.87M
Balance Sheet
Total Assets580.34M534.19M506.74M437.81M368.05M
Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments8.48M1.15M748.00K11.23M1.04M
Total Debt2.54M1.40M25.57M5.32M7.99M
Total Liabilities51.72M40.24M70.01M55.71M58.65M
Stockholders Equity528.61M493.96M436.74M382.10M309.39M
Cash Flow
Free Cash Flow28.15M26.78M-21.25M-5.49M54.34M
Operating Cash Flow37.15M35.99M-13.54M-1.69M60.30M
Investing Cash Flow-22.08M-6.71M-9.77M9.08M-31.94M
Financing Cash Flow-7.75M-28.88M21.23M-5.61M-28.08M

Legacy Housing Technical Analysis

Technical Analysis Sentiment
Positive
Last Price21.65
Price Trends
50DMA
20.69
Positive
100DMA
20.54
Positive
200DMA
22.54
Negative
Market Momentum
MACD
0.21
Negative
RSI
60.69
Neutral
STOCH
88.91
Negative
Evaluating momentum and price trends is crucial in stock analysis to make informed investment decisions. For LEGH, the sentiment is Positive. The current price of 21.65 is above the 20-day moving average (MA) of 20.17, above the 50-day MA of 20.69, and below the 200-day MA of 22.54, indicating a neutral trend. The MACD of 0.21 indicates Negative momentum. The RSI at 60.69 is Neutral, neither overbought nor oversold. The STOCH value of 88.91 is Negative, not indicating any strong overbought or oversold conditions. Overall, these indicators collectively point to a Positive sentiment for LEGH.

Legacy Housing Peers Comparison

Overall Rating
UnderperformOutperform
Sector (61)
Financial Indicators
Name
Overall Rating
Market Cap
P/E Ratio
ROE
Dividend Yield
Revenue Growth
EPS Growth
72
Outperform
$515.54M11.209.62%10.25%-10.52%
63
Neutral
$1.75B12.068.37%1.99%-6.28%-31.55%
62
Neutral
$645.63M8.766.81%-0.84%-76.30%
61
Neutral
$18.38B12.79-2.54%3.03%1.52%-15.83%
48
Neutral
$914.22M13.733.51%-20.62%-45.74%
46
Neutral
$641.77M-4.500.81%1.77%-66.27%
41
Neutral
$68.83M-5.63-23.25%-6.20%24.90%
* Consumer Cyclical Sector Average
Performance Comparison
Ticker
Company Name
Price
Change
% Change
LEGH
Legacy Housing
21.54
-2.52
-10.47%
BZH
Beazer Homes
21.89
3.46
18.77%
HOV
Hovnanian Enterprises
110.08
14.39
15.04%
LGIH
LGI Homes
40.54
-14.96
-26.95%
CCS
Century Communities
60.33
2.46
4.25%
UHG
United Homes Group
1.18
-1.16
-49.57%
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