ATLANTA-Beazer Homes USA Inc. posted third fiscal quarter diluted earnings per share (before an extraordinary item) of $2.15, up 71% versus $1.26 in the prior year. The record performance moved the locally based builder two years ahead of its five-year earnings goal to hit $9 per share by 2004. Beazer expects to reach the $9 mark next year.

“Our record backlog gives us a strong indication that this trend will continue,” Ian J. McCarthy, Beazer’s president/CEO, says in a prepared statement on the results ended June 30.

The numbers show the locally based homebuidling, mortgage and title insurance company did everything right in its third quarter.

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