Carriage Services, Inc. is a provider of funeral and cemetery services and merchandise in the United States. Its Funeral home and cemetery businesses provide products and services to families in three areas: ceremony and tribute, generally in the form of a funeral or memorial service; disposition of remains, either through burial or cremation; and memorialization, generally through monuments, markers or inscriptions. Its funeral homes offer a complete range of services to meet a family's funeral needs, consultation, the removal and preparation of remains, the sale of caskets and related funeral merchandise, the use of funeral home facilities for visitation and memorial services and transportation services. Its Cemeteries provide interment rights (primarily grave sites, lawn crypts, mausoleum spaces and niches), related cemetery merchandise (such as memorial markers, outer burial containers and monuments) and services (interments, inurnments and installation of cemetery merchandise).
High Profit Growth
The company's net income leads the industry, with the latest annual income totaling USD 417.44M.
High Dividend
The company is a high dividend payer, with the latest dividend payout ratio of 20.93%.
Stable Dividend
The company has regularly paid dividends over the past 5 years, with the latest dividend payout ratio of 20.93%.
Fairly Valued
The company’s latest PE is 13.94, at a medium 3-year percentile range.
Institutional Selling
The latest institutional holdings are 12.32M shares, decreasing 9.04% quarter-over-quarter.
Held by ETHSX
Star Investor ETHSX holds 16.08K shares of this stock.
Higher Market Activity
The company has more investor interest, with a 20-day turnover ratio of 0.56.