9 Stocks That Moved On The Big New Homes Sales Beat

New home sales for the month of September soared to the highest level in a decade.

Throughout the month of September, sales of new U.S. single-family homes rose 18.9 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 667,00 units. By comparison, analysts and experts were expecting the SAAR rate to read 555,000, which would have implied a decrease from August's reading of 560,000 units.

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Naturally, the much stronger than expected home sales report sent shares of homebuilders and related stocks mostly higher. Here is a summary of how the stocks performed as of late Wednesday morning.

• M/I Homes Inc MHO: +2.81 percent at $30.00.
• PulteGroup, Inc. PHM: +2.06 percent at $29.27.
• Toll Brothers Inc TOL: +0.49 percent at $44.82.
• Lennar Corporation LEN: +0.10 percent at $58.07.
• D. R. Horton Inc DHI: -0.32 percent at $43.18.
• iShares Dow Jones US Home Const. (ETF) ITB: -0.51 percent at $38.77.
• Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. HOV: -1.08 percent at $2.28.
• SPDR S&P Homebuilders (ETF) XHB: -1.54 percent at $40.81.
• KB Home KBH: -1.96 percent at $27.04.