Carriage Services

Carriage Services Reports 4th Qtr and Year End 2017 Results

By Funeral Director Daily / February 19, 2018 /

Carriage 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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Death Care Index Slides in January

By Funeral Director Daily / February 1, 2018 /

The Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) dropped roughly 2% for the month of January in contrast to the Dow Jones Industrial Average which recorded a 5.79% gain.  The DCI, a composite total of eight death care industry public stocks, stood at $290.78 at the close on January 31 in comparison to its mark…

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Carriage Services Announces Dividend

By Funeral Director Daily / January 29, 2018 /

Last week Carriage Services announced that they will continue with their quarterly dividend of 7.5 cents per share.  The dividend will be payable on March 1, 2018, to shareholders of record as of February 12, 2018.  This amount of $0.075 per quarter translates into a dividend yield for Carriage Services on an annual basis of…

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Death Care Index Finishes 2017 Flat

By Funeral Director Daily / January 2, 2018 /

In a year when the stock market has been tremendously rewarding to those that were invested in it, the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) of public companies in the industry did not fare near as well.  For the year from January 1, 2017 thru December 31, 2017, if you were invested in the…

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Carriage Services Announces Long Island Acquisition

By Funeral Director Daily / December 6, 2017 /

It was announced at the close of business yesterday that Carriage Services, a publicly traded death care industry consolidator, had acquired the five funeral homes under the ownership of the Thomas F. Dalton Funeral Homes on Long Island, New York.  According to Carriage Services CEO Mel Payne, “The partnership with Thomas F. Dalton Funeral Homes…

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Carriage Services Announces 3rd Quarter Results

By Funeral Director Daily / October 26, 2017 /

Following the close of business yesterday Carriage Services announced their 3rd quarter results.  After a short note that two of their large market areas, Florida and Texas, were affected greatly by Hurricanes Irma and Harvey – which they contend more than likely affected results. Here are some of the notes from the report, which can…

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Zacks Upgrades Carriage Services Stock

By Funeral Director Daily / September 29, 2017 /

On Tuesday, September 26, 2017, Zacks Investment Research issued an upgrade on the stock of funeral industry public company Carriage Services.  You can read about that upgrade and more about Carriage Services in that news release here. [wpforms id=”436″ title=”true” description=”true”]

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Monday Morning “Snip-Its”

By Funeral Director Daily / August 7, 2017 /

As Funeral Director Daily starts to roll-out our product to the death care industry we will continue to feature one article per day on an industry happening and give our opinion on that article to be used for the benefit of our readers.  While we have tested our ideas and system we have also realized…

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MarketBeat Financial: StoneMor vs. Carriage Services

By Funeral Director Daily / July 10, 2017 /

MarketBeat recently published this comparison of StoneMor Partners vs. Carriage Services.

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