---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000216085-25-000005"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HVT"
cik: "0000216085"
company_name: "HAVERTY FURNITURE COMPANIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-04-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T02:47:49.478256+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Haverty Q1 EPS $0.23 beats $0.14; comp sales -4.8%; guides lower capex on tariff uncertainty

## Summary
- Diluted EPS $0.23 vs $0.14 YoY; net income $3.8M up from $2.4M.
- Sales $181.6M (-1.3%); comparable store sales fell 4.8%.
- Gross margin improved to 61.2% from 60.3%; SG&A expenses 59.0% vs 59.4%.
- 2025 guidance: gross margin 60.0%-60.5% unchanged; capex reduced to ~$24M from $27M due to tariff uncertainty.
- No debt, $118.3M cash; $80M credit facility; generated $6.2M operating cash flow.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000216085-25-000005
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HVT
- cik: 0000216085
- company_name: HAVERTY FURNITURE COMPANIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-04-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/216085/000021608525000005/0000216085-25-000005-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/216085/000021608525000005/hvt8k43025.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000216085-25-000005
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000216085-25-000005.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000216085-25-000005.txt

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.