Carriage Services
In my opinion, when I look for something to invest in, I gauge the safety of the investment as well as the possible return and then make a decision if the balance is there between the two. I also look at two sides of an equity investment as the potential for growth (as defined by…
Read MoreLast week Carriage Services, a funeral service public company based in Houston, Texas, announced that they had acquired two funeral homes in the State of Virginia. You can read the press release here. The release announces the acquisition of the Covenant Funeral Homes in Fredericksburg and Stafford, Virginia. The release goes on to say that…
Read MoreToday we bring you an article from HartfordBusiness.com about a new funeral home business that just opened up in suburban Hartford, Connecticut. The funeral home is a 5,000 square foot building in Plainville, CT and is owned and operated by a 20-year veteran funeral director Andrea Wasley, a lifelong resident of the community. You can…
Read MorePart of what we try to do at Funeral Director Daily is to keep you updated on all things funeral service. One of the ways we do that is by watching what is happening with the publicly held death care community stocks. Here are the stocks that we check up on regularly and compute the…
Read MoreWe found a short opinion on the stock ownership values of Carriage Services today by Douglas Gerlach and published on Moneyshow.com. We present you the article here with no opinion on our part. [wpforms id=”436″ title=”true” description=”true”]
Read MoreCarriage Services, a publicly owned death care provider that according to its web-site owns and operates 178 funeral homes in 29 states and 32 cemeteries in 11 states, announced last week that they have closed a Senior Notes Offering and entered into a new Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility. You can read the company’s…
Read MoreOn Tuesday, April 24, publicly owned death care industry company, Carriage Services, announced its 1st Quarter 2018 results. You can read their press release with financials included here. The company announced record revenues of $73.4 million for the quarter. That is a 7.7% increase over the same period of a year ago. Funeral Director…
Read MoreFriday marked the stock market’s first “quadruple witching day” of 2018 so we thought it might be a good time to look at the performance of the death care industry stocks and how they performed in the first 2 1/2 months of the 2018 market. Funeral Director Daily’s Death Care Index or DCI is a…
Read MoreDeath care stocks, StoneMor Partners and Carriage Services, both components of the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI), had postive movements last Friday which lifted their companies stock price and market capitalization. Carriage Services reported Year End earnings for 2017 last week and we at Funeral Director Daily commented that the company “keeps chugging…
Read MoreCarriage Services, an American death care industry consolidator, again teased investors with some good results coupled with some items that they could improve on when they reported their end of year 2017 results last week. In a press release from the company that you can read here, Chief Executive Officer Mel Payne stated, “After eight…
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