Just caught Crawford & Company B's latest quarterly results and they're looking pretty rough. The stock missed earnings expectations big time - came in at $0.15 per share when analysts were looking for $0.23, that's a miss of over 33%. Revenue also fell short at $308.52 million versus the consensus call. Year-over-year, things have gotten worse too, with revenue down from $347.25 million last year. This crawford market play is clearly facing some headwinds right now.

What caught my eye is that this isn't just a one-quarter stumble. Looking at the broader building materials sector, it's actually in the bottom 27% of industries performance-wise. The whole sector seems to be struggling, not just Crawford. Meanwhile, a comparable company in the same space like Titan America is expected to post better numbers with earnings projected at $0.25 per share and revenue growth of 6.2%. So it's not just a market-wide thing - Crawford is underperforming even within its own industry.

The stock has been down about 7.3% since the start of the year while the S&P 500 is barely up 0.5%, so it's definitely lagging. Currently sitting at a Zacks Rank 3 (Hold), which means it's probably just going to move in line with the market from here. The real question is whether management can turn things around, but based on these numbers and the weak industry outlook, I'm not expecting any major moves in the near term.