Carriage Services (CSV) reported $105.48 million in revenue for the quarter ended December 2025, representing a year-over-year increase of 8%. EPS of $0.75 for the same period compares to $0.62 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of +2.25% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $103.17 million. With the consensus EPS estimate being $0.80, the EPS surprise was -6.25%.
While investors closely watch year-over-year changes in headline numbers -- revenue and earnings -- and how they compare to Wall Street expectations to determine their next course of action, some key metrics always provide a better insight into a company's underlying performance.
Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.
Here is how Carriage Services performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Funeral operating revenue: $61.07 million versus $57.86 million estimated by two analysts on average.
- Ancillary revenue: $0.81 million compared to the $0.91 million average estimate based on two analysts.
- Financial revenue: $9.34 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $9.4 million.
- Cemetery operating revenue: $33.84 million compared to the $35.18 million average estimate based on two analysts.
- Ancillary EBITDA: $0.16 million compared to the $0.15 million average estimate based on two analysts.
- Financial EBITDA: $8.64 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $8.53 million.
- Cemetery operating EBITDA: $15.05 million compared to the $16.05 million average estimate based on two analysts.
- Funeral operating EBITDA: $23.94 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $21.95 million.
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Shares of Carriage Services have returned +5.7% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +0.6% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), indicating that it could perform in line with the broader market in the near term.
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