Corrected: Toll Brothers profit tops estimates as home sales, prices rise

(Corrects reference to "raised" FY revenue forecast in headline and first paragraph)

(Reuters) - U.S. luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers Inc on Tuesday topped Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit, as stronger housing demand helped it sell more homes at higher prices.

Toll shares rose 8 percent in premarket trading following the news.

The company now expects full-year revenue of between $6.76 billion and $7.22 billion, compared with an earlier range of between $6.64 billion and $7.31 billion.

The average price of a Toll Brothers home rose to $851,900 in the third quarter ended July 31, from $791,400 a year earlier.

Pennsylvania-based Toll booked orders for 2,316 homes in the quarter, up 7.1 percent year-over-year, while selling 2,246 homes, 347 more than a year earlier.

 

Net income rose to $193.3 million or $1.26 per share from $148.6 million or 87 cents per share a year earlier.

Revenue jumped 27.3 percent to $1.91 billion.

Analysts on average had expected earnings of $1.03 per share and revenue of $1.81 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

(Reporting by Sanjana Shivdas in Bengaluru; Editing by Sai Sachin Ravikumar)