Homebuilder stocks have significantly outperformed the S&P 500 Index this year. XHB SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (NYSE: XHB) is higher by 22 percent year-to-date and iShares Dow Jones US Home Construction (NYSE: ITB) is higher by 37 percent.

Stock quotes in this article:XHB, KBH, RYL, MDC, BAC · Tweet. NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Goldman Sachs' late to the party housing recovery call on the homebuilding sector got a fair amount of respect from the market on Monday, though it's hard to see why.

There's No Place Like The Homebuilders ETF. July 22, 2012 by: Henry Swann | about: XHB. While there is still a question on whether housing in general has put in a bottom, the SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF (XHB) clearly put in a bottom a few years ago and ...

Toll Brothers Inc. (NYSE: TOL) and other homebuilders were slammed on Thursday after June Existing Home Sales come in at 4.37 million versus the consensus of 4.62 million.

When it comes to ETFs, be careful not to judge a book by its cover. For example, two �homebuilder� ETFs are posting very different performance numbers in 2012.

There has been a chorus of commentary on the supposed "housing recovery" going on in the United States. Many pundits have been on air talking about it.

Shares of PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE: PHM) are lower by 2.3 percent. Shares of KB Home (NYSE: KBH) and Lennar Corp. (NYSE: LEN) are also lower.

NEW YORK (AVAFIN) -- SPDR S&P Homebuilders options contracts experienced a new 90-day record for call contracts where a total of 4182 call contracts were traded in the busy trading session.

ETFs tracking homebuilder and biotech stocks are the top-performing sectors in 2012 as the funds break out to multiyear highs. The iShares Dow Jones US Home Construction Index Fund (NYSEArca: ITB) is up 42.6% year to date to lead all sector funds.

The iShares Dow Jones U.S. Home Construction Index Fund (NYSEArca: ITB) was the best-performing ETF in the first half of 2012, tagging on gains of nearly 42 percent, as the housing market slowly began to show signs of a recovery.