Q3 2025 EPS Surprise and a Troubling Cash-Flow Inflection#
D.R. Horton ([DHI]) reported an outsized quarterly EPS beat on July 22, 2025 — actual EPS $3.36 vs. consensus $2.94, a +14.29% surprise — yet the company's FY2024 financials show a sharp deterioration in cash generation that complicates the headline optimism. On the surface the operational story is one of resilience: revenues rose to $36.8B in FY2024 and net income was $4.76B (FY2024 filing, Nov. 19, 2024). Underneath, however, free cash flow collapsed to $2.02B in FY2024 from $4.16B the prior year, a decline of -51.44%, driven primarily by a $2.92B working-capital outflow in FY2024 (FY2024 cash-flow statement). That tension — earnings momentum versus cash conversion stress — is the defining development investors must parse ahead of the upcoming fiscal catalyst on October 28, 2025 (scheduled earnings announcement).