What To Expect From Carriage Services’s (CSV) Q4 Earnings

Funeral services company Carriage Services (NYSE:CSV) will be reporting results this Wednesday after the bell. Here’s what you need to know.

Carriage Services beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $102.7 million, up 2% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a narrow beat of analysts’ revenue estimates but full-year EBITDA guidance slightly missing analysts’ expectations.

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This quarter, the market is expecting Carriage Services’s revenue to grow 6.1% year on year, a reversal from the 1.1% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Carriage Services has a history of exceeding Wall Street’s expectations.

Looking at Carriage Services’s peers in the consumer discretionary - specialized consumer services segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. 1-800-FLOWERS’s revenues decreased 9.5% year on year, meeting analysts’ expectations, and Matthews reported a revenue decline of 29.1%, topping estimates by 0.8%. 1-800-FLOWERS traded up 6.9% following the results while Matthews’s stock price was unchanged.

Read our full analysis of 1-800-FLOWERS’s results here and Matthews’s results here.

Questions about potential tariffs and corporate tax changes have caused much volatility in 2025. While some of the consumer discretionary - specialized consumer services stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 2.9% on average over the last month. Carriage Services is up 2.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $60 (compared to the current share price of $44.22).

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