Stocks · Consumer Cyclical · Personal Products & Services
Carriage Services, Inc. CSV
$32.17 +1.20% Close, Oct 2, 2026 · NYSE · Market cap $510.6M
Next earnings report: Nov 4, 2026
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Three things to know
- Net debt is 4.7× EBITDA, a high level of leverage.
- The shares trade at 11.5× trailing earnings, lower than 86% of the company's own readings over the past five years.
- The stock is in a downtrend: below its 200-day average, with the 50-day average below the 200-day.
PromtFinance scores
Each score is a percentile within the Consumer Cyclical sector (0–100). Under each score: how the stock ranks in its sector on every component. As of Oct 5, 2026.
How fast revenue, earnings and cash flow are growing.
- Revenue growth (TTM, YoY)Bottom 42%
- EPS growth (TTM, YoY)Bottom 35%
- FCF growth (TTM, YoY)Bottom 5%
- Revenue growth, 3-year CAGRTop 40%
- Revenue growth accelerationTop 47%
Returns on capital, margins, earnings quality and balance-sheet strength.
- Return on invested capitalBottom 47%
- Gross marginBottom 49%
- Operating marginTop 5%
- Cash conversion (OCF / net income)Bottom 33%
- Accruals (lower is better)Bottom 17%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Bottom 30%
- Interest coverBottom 45%
How cheap the shares are relative to earnings, cash flow and their own history.
- Earnings yieldTop 14%
- Free-cash-flow yieldBottom 12%
- EBITDA / enterprise valueTop 26%
- Sales / enterprise valueBottom 23%
- P/E vs own 5-year history (lower is better)Top 23%
Strength and persistence of the price trend, including versus the S&P 500.
- 12-month return excluding last monthBottom 22%
- 6-month returnBottom 10%
- 1-year return vs S&P 500Bottom 27%
- Distance from 52-week highBottom 33%
- Trend checklist (0–4)Bottom 47%
Earnings surprises and analyst sentiment (estimate-revision history is being collected).
- Average EPS surprise, last 4 quartersBottom 26%
- Consecutive EPS beatsBottom 13%
- Share of analysts rating BuyTop 2%
- Upside to consensus price targetTop 33%
Low volatility, shallow drawdowns, low market sensitivity and modest leverage.
- Volatility, 60 days (lower is better)Top 44%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 yearsTop 26%
- Beta vs S&P 500 (lower is better)Top 9%
- Net debt / EBITDA (lower is better)Bottom 30%
What changed
Latest four quarters versus the same period a year earlier (growth: versus one quarter earlier).
| Measure | Before | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (YoY) | 2.1% | 2.4% | ↑ |
| EPS growth (YoY) | -7.7% | -16.2% | ↓ |
| Gross margin | 35.1% | 35.1% | ↑ |
| Operating margin | 24.4% | 23.4% | ↓ |
| FCF margin | 9.1% | -5.2% | ↓ |
Fundamental momentum
| Measure | Now (TTM) | Year / quarter before | Sector rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth (TTM, YoY) | 2.4% | 2.1% | ↑ | Bottom 42% |
| EPS growth (TTM, YoY) | -16.2% | -7.7% | ↓ | Bottom 35% |
| Gross margin | 35.1% | 35.1% | ↑ | Bottom 49% |
| Operating margin | 23.4% | 24.4% | ↓ | Top 5% |
| Net margin | 10.7% | 12.9% | ↓ | — |
| Free-cash-flow margin | -5.2% | 9.1% | ↓ | — |
| Return on invested capital | 5.2% | — | Bottom 47% | |
| Revenue growth, 3-year CAGR | 4.1% | — | Top 40% |
Quality of earnings and balance sheet
- Cash conversion (OCF / net income)Above 1× means profits are backed by cash.
- 1.38×
- Accruals (net income − OCF) / assetsLower is better; high accruals can signal weaker earnings quality.
- -1.2%
- Stock-based compensation / revenueA cost to shareholders through dilution.
- 1.9%
- Receivables growth vs revenue growthReceivables growing much faster than sales can be a warning.
- +23.0 pp
- Net debt / EBITDABelow 1× is conservative; above 3× is high leverage.
- 4.73×
- Interest cover (operating income / interest)How many times operating profit covers interest.
- 3.5×
Shareholder returns
- Dividend yield (dividends paid, TTM)
- 1.39%
- Net buyback yield (TTM)
- -0.28%
- Shareholder yield
- 1.11%
- Share count change, 1 year
- +2.0%
- Share count change, 3-year CAGR
- +0.8%
Shareholder yield = dividends + net buybacks over the last four quarters, divided by market cap.
Based on the four quarters through Jun 30, 2026 (filed Aug 6, 2026).
Earnings and expectations
Earnings momentum
- Consecutive EPS beats
- 0
- Beats in the last 8 reports
- 6 of 8
- Average EPS surprise, last 4
- -1.5%
- Average 2-day reaction, last 8
- +0.3%
- Positive 20 days after report
- 2 of 8
Analysts
- Consensus price target
- $46.67
- Target vs current price
- +45.1%
- Analysts with a rating
- 7
- Share rating Buy or Strong Buy
- 100%
- Consensus rating
- Buy
How the stock reacted to recent reports
| Report date | EPS surprise | 2 days | 5 days | 20 days | 60 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2026 | -5.1% | +2.2% | -17.0% | -18.3% | — |
| May 6, 2026 | +1.2% | -1.9% | -8.7% | -21.4% | -15.0% |
| Feb 25, 2026 | -6.3% | -1.0% | +2.4% | -3.2% | +0.1% |
| Nov 5, 2025 | +4.2% | +1.6% | -2.9% | -1.5% | +1.4% |
| Aug 6, 2025 | +2.8% | +1.5% | +6.1% | -6.8% | -2.9% |
| Apr 30, 2025 | +67.5% | -1.0% | +0.1% | +7.3% | +11.9% |
| Feb 26, 2025 | +21.6% | +0.6% | -5.2% | -6.8% | +5.1% |
| Oct 30, 2024 | +52.4% | +0.2% | +16.5% | +22.7% | +24.3% |
Returns from the close before each report. Past reactions do not determine future ones.
Earnings history
| Report date | EPS | Estimate | Surprise | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2026 | $0.78 | $0.82 | -5.1% | $102.9M |
| May 6, 2026 | $0.86 | $0.85 | +1.2% | $106.1M |
| Feb 25, 2026 | $0.75 | $0.80 | -6.3% | $105.5M |
| Nov 5, 2025 | $0.75 | $0.72 | +4.2% | $102.7M |
| Aug 6, 2025 | $0.74 | $0.72 | +2.8% | $102.1M |
| Apr 30, 2025 | $1.34 | $0.80 | +67.5% | $107.1M |
| Feb 26, 2025 | $0.62 | $0.51 | +21.6% | $99.1M |
| Oct 30, 2024 | $0.64 | $0.42 | +52.4% | $100.7M |
Valuation in context
| Multiple | Now | 5-year median | 5-year percentile | Sector rank (cheapness) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E (trailing) | 11.5× | 13.9× | 14th | Top 14% |
| P/E (forward) | 9.6× | — | — | — |
| EV / EBITDA | 9.1× | — | — | Top 26% |
| EV / Sales | 2.53× | — | — | Bottom 23% |
| Free-cash-flow yield | -4.23% | — | — | Bottom 12% |
| Earnings yield | 8.67% | — | — | Top 14% |
P/E over the past five years
Range 8.5× – 32.1× since Jun 30, 2021. Each point: price on the filing date divided by trailing-twelve-month EPS known then.
What moved the stock over the past year
- Price return, 1 year
- -27.5%
- Earnings per share growth (TTM)
- -16.2%
- Change in P/E multiple
- -7.9%
Most of the move came from earnings growth.
Technical state
Trend checklist
- ✓ Price above 20-day average
- ✗ Price above 50-day average
- ✗ Price above 200-day average
- ✗ 50-day average above 200-day
- ✓ MACD histogram positive
Trend quality
- Days above the 50-day average
- 0
- Days above the 200-day average
- 0
- 50-day average slope (20 days)
- -6.8%
- 200-day average slope (20 days)
- -2.5%
- Distance from 50-day average
- -6.8%
- Distance from 200-day average
- -21.3%
- RSI (14)
- 46.6
- Relative volume
- 1.75×
Risk and drawdowns
- Volatility, 60 days (annualized)
- 38.9%
- Volatility vs own 5-year history
- 73th percentile · Normal for this stock
- Beta vs S&P 500 (2 years, weekly)
- 0.51
- Correlation with S&P 500
- 0.26
- Current drawdown from 1-year high
- -37.7%
- Maximum drawdown, 3 years
- -41.0%
Largest declines in the past six years
| From peak | To low | Decline | Length | Recovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 29, 2021 | Nov 13, 2023 | -69.4% | 471 days | Not yet recovered |
| Sep 3, 2021 | Sep 21, 2021 | -11.6% | 11 days | 27 days (Oct 28, 2021) |
| Jun 1, 2021 | Jul 8, 2021 | -10.8% | 26 days | 25 days (Aug 12, 2021) |
Declines of 10% or more from a closing high, measured on daily closes.
Financial statements
- Market cap
- $510.6M
- P/E (TTM)
- 11.5
- EPS, diluted (TTM)
- $2.79
- Revenue (TTM)
- $417.2M
- Dividend yield
- 1.40%
- 52-week range
- $30.11 – $52.10
| FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $375.9M | $370.2M | $382.5M | $404.2M | $417.4M |
| Gross profit | $129.5M | $119.2M | $124.3M | $143.4M | $146.7M |
| Operating income | $93.7M | $79.7M | $81.0M | $81.8M | $98.0M |
| Net income | $33.2M | $41.4M | $33.4M | $33.0M | $51.5M |
| EPS (diluted) | $1.81 | $2.63 | $2.14 | $2.10 | $3.25 |
| Q3 2024 | Q4 2024 | Q1 2025 | Q2 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q4 2025 | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $100.7M | $97.7M | $107.1M | $102.1M | $102.7M | $105.5M | $106.1M | $102.9M |
| Net income | $9.9M | $9.9M | $20.9M | $11.7M | $6.5M | $12.3M | $13.5M | $12.3M |
| EPS (diluted) | $0.63 | $0.62 | $1.34 | $0.74 | $0.41 | $0.77 | $0.84 | $0.77 |
| FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | $84.2M | $61.0M | $75.6M | $52.0M | $60.7M |
| Capital expenditure | -$24.9M | -$60.0M | -$62.5M | -$16.1M | -$79.7M |
| Free cash flow | $59.4M | $1.1M | $13.1M | $35.9M | -$19.0M |
| Dividends paid | -$7.3M | -$6.8M | -$6.7M | -$6.8M | -$7.0M |
| Net share buybacks | -$137.4M | -$34.9M | $1.5M | $2.6M | $1.7M |
Cash outflows are shown as negative numbers.
- Cash and short-term investments
- $2.5M
- Total assets
- $1.37B
- Total liabilities
- $1.09B
- Total debt
- $549.3M
- Net debt
- $546.7M
- Shareholders’ equity
- $279.4M
As of Jun 30, 2026 (filed Aug 6, 2026).
Dividends
| Ex-date | Amount | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2026 | $0.11 | Sep 1, 2026 |
| May 4, 2026 | $0.11 | Jun 1, 2026 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | $0.11 | Mar 2, 2026 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | $0.11 | Dec 1, 2025 |
| Aug 4, 2025 | $0.11 | Sep 2, 2025 |
| May 5, 2025 | $0.11 | Jun 2, 2025 |
| Feb 3, 2025 | $0.11 | Mar 3, 2025 |
| Nov 4, 2024 | $0.11 | Dec 2, 2024 |
Short interest
- Shares sold short
- 590,372
- Days to cover
- 4.11
- Change vs previous report
- +2.9%
FINRA short interest, settlement date Sep 15, 2026.