Carriage Services, Inc. (CSV): Price and Financial Metrics

CSV POWR Grades

• Sentiment is the dimension where CSV ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 75.37% of US stocks.
• CSV's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
• CSV's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 16.79% of US stocks).

CSV Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of CARRIAGE SERVICES INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 98.75% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for CARRIAGE SERVICES INC is higher than it is for about 95.95% of US stocks.
• Equity multiplier, or assets relative to shareholders' equity, comes in at 9.32 for CARRIAGE SERVICES INC; that's greater than it is for 89.64% of US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to CARRIAGE SERVICES INC are CHDN, TRIN, GRIN, HTGC, and PCH.
• CSV's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit CARRIAGE SERVICES INC's official web site, go to www.carriageservices.com.

CSV Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Cyclical stock, CSV's price/sales ratio is 33.33% higher, now standing at 1.2.
• Over the past 243 months, CSV's price/sales ratio has gone up 0.7.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CSV.

CSV Growth Metrics

Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -23.86%.
• The year over year revenue growth rate now stands at 8.27%.
• Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -4.4%.

CSV's revenue has moved up $119,163,000 over the prior 67 months.

The table below shows CSV's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	372.189	64.593	46.508
2022-06-30	379.733	72.982	53.694
2022-03-31	377.41	73.236	36.628
2021-12-31	375.886	84.246	33.159
2021-09-30	370.043	84.792	28.177
2021-06-30	359.395	93.355	20.656

CSV's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• CSV has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 56.35% of graded US stocks.
• CSV's asset turnover comes in at 0.319 -- ranking 40th of 50 Personal Services stocks.
• ZVO, SCI, and XSPA are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with CSV.

The table below shows CSV's key quality metrics over time.