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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 11-K

     
[X]
  ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
   
  For the fiscal year ended: December 31, 2003.
 
   
  or
 
   
[   ]
  TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from [      ] to [      ].

Commission File No. 1-9195

     
A.
  Full title of the plan and the address of the plan, if different from that of the issuer named below:
 
   
  KB Home
  401 (k) Savings Plan
 
   
B.
  Name of issuer of the securities held pursuant to the plan and the address of its principal executive office:
 
   
  KB Home
  10990 Wilshire Boulevard
  Los Angeles, California 90024

 


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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTAL SCHEDULE

KB Home 401(k) Savings Plan

Years ended December 31, 2003 and 2002 with Report of
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 


KB Home 401(k) Savings Plan

Financial Statements and Supplemental Schedule

Years ended December 31, 2003 and 2002

Contents

         
    1  
Audited Financial Statements
       
    2  
    3  
    4  
Supplemental Schedule
       
    7  
 Exhibit 23.1

 


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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Administrative Committee, as Plan Administrator
of the KB Home 401(k) Savings Plan

We have audited the accompanying statements of net assets available for benefits of the KB Home 401(k) Savings Plan as of December 31, 2003 and 2002, and the related statements of changes in net assets available for benefits for the years then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Plan’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the net assets available for benefits of the Plan at December 31, 2003 and 2002, and the changes in its net assets available for benefits for the years then ended in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Our audits were performed for the purpose of forming an opinion on the financial statements taken as a whole. The accompanying supplemental schedule of assets held (at end of year) as of December 31, 2003, is presented for purposes of additional analysis and is not a required part of the financial statements but is supplementary information required by the Department of Labor’s Rules and Regulations for Reporting and Disclosure under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. This supplemental schedule is the responsibility of the Plan’s management. The supplemental schedule has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in our audits of the financial statements and, in our opinion, is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the financial statements taken as a whole.

/s/ Ernst & Young

Los Angeles, California
May 21, 2004

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KB Home 401(k) Savings Plan

Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits

                 
    December 31,
    2003
  2002
Assets
               
Investments, at fair value
  $ 104,004,356     $ 71,020,164  
 
   
 
     
 
 
Net assets available for benefits
  $ 104,004,356     $ 71,020,164  
 
   
 
     
 
 

See accompanying notes.

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KB Home 401(k) Savings Plan

Statements of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits

                 
    Year ended December 31,
    2003
  2002
Additions
               
Contributions from:
               
Plan participants
  $ 13,475,717     $ 10,910,432  
Employer, net of forfeitures
    6,422,813       5,444,195  
 
   
 
     
 
 
 
    19,898,530       16,354,627  
Investment income (loss):
               
Interest and dividends
    1,545,289       1,153,128  
Net appreciation (depreciation) in fair value of investments
    18,544,501       (9,820,262 )
 
   
 
     
 
 
 
    20,089,790       (8,667,134 )
Assets transferred in
    1,719,961        
 
   
 
     
 
 
Total additions
    41,708,281       7,687,493  
Deductions
               
Benefits paid to participants
    8,672,792       8,777,879  
Administrative expenses
    51,297       40,053  
 
   
 
     
 
 
Total deductions
    8,724,089       8,817,932  
 
   
 
     
 
 
Net increase (decrease) in net assets available for benefits
    32,984,192       (1,130,439 )
Net assets available for benefits
               
Beginning of year
    71,020,164       72,150,603  
 
   
 
     
 
 
End of year
  $ 104,004,356     $ 71,020,164  
 
   
 
     
 
 

See accompanying notes.

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KB Home 401(k) Savings Plan

Notes to Financial Statements

December 31, 2003

1. General Description of the Plan

The KB Home 401(k) Savings Plan (the Plan), formerly Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation Amended and Restated 401(k) Savings Plan, is a defined contribution plan in which salaried employees of KB Home (the Company) are eligible to participate on the first day of the month following the date of hire.

Participants electing to participate in the Plan may contribute up to 15% of their annual compensation, on a pretax basis, by means of payroll deduction. Participants may also contribute up to an additional 15% of their annual compensation, on an after-tax basis, also by means of payroll deduction. All contributions must be in whole percentages. Pretax contributions are eligible for tax deferred treatment up to the limits provided by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, as adjusted for cost of living.

Effective August 1, 2003, each Participant whose designated rate of employee deferral contribution as of a payroll period is at least 6%, who has attained (or will attain) age 50 before the close of the plan year and whose employee deferral contributions for the plan year will exceed the limits of Code Section 402(s) or other Plan limit is eligible to make a catch-up contribution in accordance with, and subject to the limitations of, Code Section 414(v) as an additional employee deferral contribution.

Unless otherwise elected by the Board of Directors, the Company will match the participant’s pretax contribution up to 6% of annual base salary (determined without regard to bonuses and a maximum of $50,000 of regular earnings for commission employees). Company matching contributions and related investment income vest to participants over five years.

Plan assets are held by Fidelity Management Trust Company, Inc. (the Trustee). Plan participants may direct the investment of their funds among one or more of the several fund options offered by the Plan.

Terminating participants may elect to withdraw their contributions, vested Company contributions and related investment income as a lump-sum payment. In the absence of a valid election, the participant’s vested benefits will be distributed in the form of a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity or a Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity, or in a lump sum if the actuarial equivalent is not more than $5,000.

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KB Home 401(k) Savings Plan

Notes to Financial Statements (continued)

1. General Description of the Plan (continued)

Nonvested Company contributions for terminated employees are forfeited and used by the Company to reduce future employer contributions. For the years ended December 31, 2003 and 2002, the Company used $725,233 and $656,996, respectively, of forfeitures to reduce employer contributions. The forfeiture balances available to offset future employer contributions were $14,193 and $86,431 at December 31, 2003 and 2002, respectively.

The Plan allows participant loans and hardship withdrawals subject to certain limitations.

In the event of Plan termination, benefits of all affected participants, if not already so, shall become 100% vested and nonforfeitable.

On February 14, 2003, the assets of American Heritage Homes 401(k) Plan were transferred into the Plan in conjunction with the Company’s acquisition of American Heritage Homes.

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

The financial statements of the Plan are prepared on an accrual basis. Investment income is recorded as earned. Distributions of Plan benefits to withdrawn participants are recorded when distributed. Expenses incurred in the administration of the Plan are paid by the Company. Expenses incurred related to terminated participants and participant loans are paid by the Plan.

The financial statements are based on information provided to the Company and certified as complete and accurate by the Trustee. Certain adjustments have been made to the financial statements provided by the Trustee in order for them to conform to the accrual basis of accounting. The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that could affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

3. Investments

Investments are valued at fair value, which is determined daily by the Trustee through reference to published market information using closing prices on the valuation date for mutual funds and common stock and based on closing balances for cash and participant loans.

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KB Home 401(k) Savings Plan

Notes to Financial Statements (continued)

3. Investments (continued)

The fair value of the Plan’s individual investments that represent 5% or more of the Plan’s net assets as of December 31, 2003 and 2002, was as follows:

                 
    December 31,
    2003
  2002
Fidelity Asset Manager
  $ 5,601,571     $ 4,611,908  
Fidelity Contrafund
    11,847,509       8,163,624  
Fidelity Equity Income
    10,493,613       7,094,087  
Fidelity Intermediate Bond
    7,333,623       6,228,396  
Fidelity Low-Priced Stock
    9,091,395       5,010,813  
Fidelity Magellan
    16,879,984       11,996,323  
Fidelity Retirement Money Market
    9,972,704       9,914,685  
Strong Growth
    6,827,580       4,292,297  
KB Home Common Stock
    9,952,790       4,785,702  

Net appreciation (depreciation) of the Plan’s investments (including investments bought, sold, and held during the year) during the years ended December 31, 2003 and 2002, was as follows:

                 
    Year ended
    December 31,
    2003
  2002
Mutual funds
  $ 12,956,270     $ (11,177,280 )
Common stock
    5,588,231       1,357,018  
 
   
 
     
 
 
 
  $ 18,544,501     $ (9,820,262 )
 
   
 
     
 
 

4. Tax Status of the Plan

The Plan has received a determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service dated February 28, 2002, stating that the Plan is qualified, in form, under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) and, therefore, the related trust is exempt from taxation. Once qualified, the Plan is required to operate in conformity with the Code to maintain its qualification. The Plan Administrator believes the Plan is being operated in compliance with the applicable requirements of the Code and, therefore, believes that the Plan is qualified and the related trust is tax exempt.

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Supplemental Schedule

 


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KB Home 401(k) Savings Plan

EIN: 95-3666267        Plan Number: 001

Schedule H, Line 4(i) – Schedule of Assets (Held at End of Year)

December 31, 2003

                 
    Description of   Current
Identity of Issue
  Asset
  Value
Mutual Funds:
               
Fidelity Asset Manager
  355,430 shares   $ 5,601,571  
Fidelity Consumer Index
  3,099 shares     72,824  
Fidelity Contrafund
  240,071 shares     11,847,509  
Fidelity Cyclical Index
  4,037 shares     64,869  
Fidelity Equity Income
  210,927 shares     10,493,613  
Fidelity Financial
  2,520 shares     289,579  
Fidelity Freedom Income
  18,047 shares     200,144  
Fidelity Freedom 2000
  6,645 shares     78,282  
Fidelity Freedom 2010
  46,824 shares     609,645  
Fidelity Freedom 2020
  76,639 shares     997,845  
Fidelity Freedom 2030
  63,805 shares     826,278  
Fidelity Freedom 2040
  40,069 shares     302,922  
Fidelity Healthcare
  3,663 shares     432,313  
Fidelity Intermediate Bond
  687,957 shares     7,333,623  
Fidelity Low-Priced Stock
  259,903 shares     9,091,395  
Fidelity Magellan
  172,703 shares     16,879,984  
Fidelity Natural Resources
  4,022 shares     57,601  
Fidelity Overseas
  75,635 shares     2,377,199  
Fidelity Retirement Money Market
  9,972,704 shares     9,972,704  
Fidelity Technology
  13,213 shares     793,988  
Fidelity Utilities GR
  4,315 shares     142,123  
Spartan US Equity Index
  91,082 shares     3,589,547  
Franklin Templeton – Developing Markets Trust I
  101,098 shares     1,515,461  
Strong Capital Management – Strong Growth
  397,183 shares     6,827,580  
KB Home Stock Fund:
               
Common Stock*
  137,242 shares     9,952,790  
Cash
  500,042 shares     745,610  
Participant loans*
 
Interest rates ranging
from 5.75% to 10.5%
with maturity dates
through 2031
    2,907,357  
 
           
 
 
 
          $ 104,004,356  
 
           
 
 

* Party-in-interest to the Plan.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the trustees (or other persons who administer the employee benefit plan) have duly caused this annual report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

         
    KB Home
    401 (k) Savings Plan
 
       
Dated: June 28, 2004
  By:   /s/ DOMENICO CECERE
     
 
    Domenico Cecere
    Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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EXHIBIT INDEX

             
        Sequentially
Exhibit No.
  Description
  Numbered Page
23.1
  Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm     10  

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