Company Analysis

Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc. (HVT)

NYSE: HVT · Retail-Furniture Stores · Atlanta, GA · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade5.2
◀ Past 5.9● Present 5.4▶ Future 4.5
1 est.

The grade of Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.2/10
◀ Past5.925% of the headline
● Present5.445% of the headline
▶ Future4.530% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.9/1025% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Surviving crises

as filed
7.3/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 73rd percentile among 11 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
3.9/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-0.9% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 33% of this tense · 39th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $822 million in fiscal 2016 to $759 million in fiscal 2025, down 0.9% a year; it rose in 3 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 31% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-0.9%bottom 30% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 25% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 30% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak31.0%bottom 30% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

SI estimate
6.0/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

SI estimate 6.0/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 60th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, the cash returned against operating cash flow, which ranks in the top 40% of 11 in its family; fewer than two of the parts can be read: the share count over the years, and the cash returned against a positive operating cash flow or net income.
What the record cannot read
Fewer than two of the parts can be read: the share count over the years, and the cash returned against a positive operating cash flow or net income.
How it was reasoned
one part: cash returned against operating cash flow, the one part on file, ranked among 11 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc.'s shareholder treatment is put at 6.0 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, the cash returned against operating cash flow, which ranks in the top 40% of 11 in its family; fewer than two of the parts can be read: the share count over the years, and the cash returned against a positive operating cash flow or net income. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.4/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
5.8/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 6%: 6¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 53%: owes 53¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 58th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc. earned about 6 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 71 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 53 cents per dollar of assets (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 27% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 27% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 27% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
4.2/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 42% of 11 in its family; net margin 2.6%.

weight 33% of this tense · 42nd percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc.'s standing among 11 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $759 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 45% by size; a net margin of 2.6% ranks in the bottom 45%; revenue growth of -10.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 36% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$759Mbottom 45% of its family
  • net margin2.6%bottom 45% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-10.2%bottom 36% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
6.5/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 35% of 10 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2025.

weight 22% of this tense · 65th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Burdette, Steven G (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-01-24, 1.8 years (top 50% of its family); the 13 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 10.5 years (top 22%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 13 people in charge now (top 33%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge4 in three years among 13 peopletop 33% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed10.5 yearstop 22% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record1.8 yearstop 50% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.5/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
7.0/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 30% of 11 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 70th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $125 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 19.3% of its assets as net cash, top 45% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 4.3% of revenue (top 36%); a gross margin of 60.7% (top 9%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets19.3%top 45% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue4.3%top 36% of its family
  • gross margin60.7%top 9% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
3.3/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 33% of 10 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 33rd percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -10.2% a year over the last three filed years against -0.9% over all 10, slowing (bottom 30% of its family); the newest year grew 5% (top 50%); capital spending grew -11.5% a year (bottom 20%) (its annual reports). Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc. reported 6 product lines in fiscal 2025: Upholstery at $338 million (45%), Bedroom Furniture at $113 million (15%), Accessories and Other at $108 million (14%), and 3 more; 5 of 6 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-9.3 points a yearbottom 30% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth5.0%top 50% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-11.5%bottom 20% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
4.3/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 43% of 10 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $759 million in fiscal 2025 came in 26.4% above the $601 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 20% of its family); net income of $20 million against a prior three-year average of $55 million (bottom 20%); a net margin of 2.6% against 5.9% before (bottom 30%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace26.4%top 20% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-64%bottom 20% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-3.3 pointsbottom 30% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton HVT · research, not advice