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October 19, 2007

Taking stock of homebuilder pain

Performance of U.S. homebuilders vs. S&P benchmarks

Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ put together this chart, which gives you a snapshot of how investors have run away from homebuilders' stock. The key is hard to see, I know: Purple is the S&P 500 Homebuilding Sub-Industry Index, red is the major U.S. homebuilders and blue is the S&P 500 index as a whole.

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About Jamie Smith Hopkins

Jamie Smith Hopkins, a Baltimore Sun reporter since 1999, writes about the regional economy. Her reporting on the housing market has won national and local awards. Hopkins is a Columbia native and has lived in Maryland all her life, save for 10 months spent covering schools in Ames, Iowa.
She trained to become a wonk by spending large chunks of time as a geek and an insufferable know-it-all.
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