La-Z-Boy (LZB) Q4 Earnings Report Preview: What To Look For

La-Z-Boy (LZB) Q4 Earnings Report Preview: What To Look For

Radek Strnad

Mon, February 16, 2026 at 12:02 PM GMT+9 2 min read

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Furniture company La-Z-Boy (NYSE:LZB) will be reporting earnings this Tuesday after the bell. Here’s what to expect.

La-Z-Boy beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.2% last quarter, reporting revenues of $522.5 million, flat year on year. It was an exceptional quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.

Is La-Z-Boy a buy or sell going into earnings? Read our full analysis here, it’s free for active Edge members.

This quarter, analysts are expecting La-Z-Boy’s revenue to grow 2.7% year on year to $535.6 million, slowing from the 4.3% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.59 per share.

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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. La-Z-Boy has only missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates once over the last two years, exceeding top-line expectations by 1.5% on average.

Looking at La-Z-Boy’s peers in the consumer discretionary segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Mohawk Industries delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 2.4%, beating analysts’ expectations by 0.9%, and Leggett & Platt reported a revenue decline of 11.2%, in line with consensus estimates. Mohawk Industries’s stock price was unchanged after the resultswhile Leggett & Platt was down 7.7%.

Read our full analysis of Mohawk Industries’s results here and Leggett & Platt’s results here.

Investors in the consumer discretionary segment have had fairly steady hands going into earnings, with share prices down 1.7% on average over the last month. La-Z-Boy’s stock price was unchanged during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $44.50 (compared to the current share price of $37.00).

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