Carriage Services Stock Forecast, Price & News

3 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Carriage Services in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" Carriage Services stock. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in CSV, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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Carriage Services saw a increase in short interest in July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totaling 585,900 shares, an increase of 20.9% from the June 30th total of 484,800 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 80,300 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 7.3 days. Currently, 3.7% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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Carriage Services is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 26th 2021.
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Carriage Services, Inc. (NYSE:CSV) released its quarterly earnings results on Monday, July, 26th. The company reported $0.64 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.49 by $0.15. Carriage Services had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 17.73% and a net margin of 9.53%.
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Carriage Services' stock was trading at $17.33 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, CSV shares have increased by 114.5% and is now trading at $37.18.
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Carriage Services announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, July 23rd. Shareholders of record on Monday, August 9th will be given a dividend of $0.10 per share on Wednesday, September 1st. This represents a $0.40 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.08%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, August 6th.
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Carriage Services pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.08%. Carriage Services does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Carriage Services is 21.51%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Carriage Services will have a dividend payout ratio of 14.98% next year. This indicates that Carriage Services will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Carriage Services updated its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Tuesday, July, 27th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $3.100-$3.100 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.670. The company issued revenue guidance of $355 million-$365 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $349.23 million.

3 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Carriage Services' shares. Their forecasts range from $46.00 to $52.00. On average, they anticipate Carriage Services' share price to reach $49.33 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 32.7% from the stock's current price.
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24 employees have rated Carriage Services CEO Mel Payne on Glassdoor.com. Mel Payne has an approval rating of 59% among Carriage Services' employees. This puts Mel Payne in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Carriage Services trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CSV."

Carriage Services' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd. (0.12%). Company insiders that own Carriage Services stock include Adeola Olaniyan, Carl Benjamin Brink, Carlos R Quezada, Christopher Manceaux, Donald Douglas Patteson Jr, James Raymond Schenck, Kathryn Housh Shirley, Melvin C Payne, Michael Loeffel, Paul Donald Elliott, Peggy Schappaugh, Shawn R Phillips, Steven D Metzger, Viki K Blinderman and William Goetz.
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CSV stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd.. Company insiders that have bought Carriage Services stock in the last two years include Adeola Olaniyan, Carl Benjamin Brink, Carlos R Quezada, Christopher Manceaux, Donald Douglas Patteson Jr, James Raymond Schenck, Melvin C Payne, Michael Loeffel, Peggy Schappaugh, Shawn R Phillips, Steven D Metzger, Viki K Blinderman, and William Goetz.
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Shares of CSV can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of CSV stock can currently be purchased for approximately $37.18.

Carriage Services has a market capitalization of $671.02 million and generates $329.45 million in revenue each year. The company earns $16.09 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.86 on an earnings per share basis.

Carriage Services employs 2,718 workers across the globe.

The official website for Carriage Services is www.carriageservices.com.

Carriage Services is headquartered at 3040 POST OAK BOULEVARD SUITE 300, HOUSTON TX, 77056.

Carriage Services' mailing address is 3040 POST OAK BOULEVARD SUITE 300, HOUSTON TX, 77056. The company can be reached via phone at 713-332-8400.