Shares of financial services provider CBIZ (NYSE:CBZ) fell 13.1% in the afternoon session after the company reported mixed first-quarter 2025 results, which included an EPS beat, but revenue missed significantly, and full-year revenue guidance fell short. Management lowered its full-year revenue guidance, citing uncertainty around client demand for project-based services and a larger mix of episodic revenue later in the year. Overall, this quarter could have been better.
Financial services provider CBIZ (NYSE:CBZ) fell short of the market’s revenue expectations in Q1 CY2025, but sales rose 69.5% year on year to $838 million. The company’s full-year revenue guidance of $2.88 billion at the midpoint came in 1.6% below analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $2.29 per share was 8.7% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
Wall Street has set ambitious price targets for the stocks in this article.
While this suggests attractive upside potential, it’s important to remain skeptical because analysts face institutional pressures that can sometimes lead to overly optimistic forecasts.
As the craze of earnings season draws to a close, here’s a look back at some of the most exciting (and some less so) results from Q4. Today, we are looking at business process outsourcing & consulting stocks, starting with CBIZ (NYSE:CBZ).
Business services providers play a critical role for enterprises, assisting them with everything from new hardware integrations to consulting and marketing. But increasing competition from AI-driven upstarts has tempered enthusiasm,
and over the past six months, the industry has pulled back by 3.3%. This performance was similar to the S&P 500’s decline.
As the Q4 earnings season wraps, let’s dig into this quarter’s best and worst performers in the business process outsourcing & consulting industry, including TaskUs (NASDAQ:TASK) and its peers.
