Added to YB: 2026-08-31
Pitch date: 2026-08-26
CSV [bullish]
Carriage Services, Inc.
-1.04%
current return
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Company Info
Carriage Services, Inc. provides funeral and cemetery services, and merchandise in the United States.
Market Cap
$552.1M
Pitch Price
$34.45
Price Target
N/A
Dividend
1.29%
EV/EBITDA
8.63
P/E
12.43
EV/Sales
2.63
Sector
Diversified Consumer Services
Category
growth
Bullet Investment Ideas #1 First Edition - Carriage Services, Inc.
CSV: Carriage Services offers a 12-13x earnings bet on consolidating a fragmented, defensive funeral and cemetery market while expanding higher-margin preneed sales. 2026 guidance calls for $435-$445M of revenue, $135-$140M of adjusted EBITDA and $40-$50M of adjusted free cash flow. The key challenge is sustaining attractive acquisition returns while reducing ~4x leverage, especially as Q2 funeral contract volume fell 4%.
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