Funeral services company Carriage Services (NYSE:CSV) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow afternoon. Here’s what to look for.

Carriage Services beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1% last quarter, reporting revenues of $97.7 million, down 1.1% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ EPS estimates but full-year revenue guidance missing analysts’ expectations significantly.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Carriage Services’s revenue to be flat year on year at $104.2 million, slowing from the 8.4% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.84 per share.

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 only missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates once over the last two years, exceeding top-line expectations by 4% on average.

Looking at Carriage Services’s peers in the specialized consumer services segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. ADT delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 6.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2%, and Pool reported a revenue decline of 4.4%, falling short of estimates by 2.5%. ADT’s stock price was unchanged after the resultswhile Pool was down 5.7%.

Read our full analysis of ADT’s results here and Pool’s results here.

Questions about potential tariffs and corporate tax changes have caused much volatility in 2025. While some of the specialized consumer services stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 5.8% on average over the last month. Carriage Services is up 3.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $51.25 (compared to the current share price of $39.98).

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