Carriage Services, Inc. (CSV) Stock Analysis
Recovery setup · Inst Constrain edge
Consumer Cyclical · Personal Services
Sell if holding. Momentum 3.9/10 is below the 5.0 floor at $39.02 — engine's falling-knife protection flags exit rather than catching a breakdown. Specifics: Leverage penalty (D/E 2.0): -1.5; Consecutive earnings misses (2).
Carriage Services, Inc. provides funeral and cemetery services, and merchandise in the United States. It operates through two segments, Funeral Home Operations and Cemetery Operations. The Funeral Home Operations segment provides consultation services; funeral home facilities... Read more
Sell if holding. Momentum 3.9/10 is below the 5.0 floor at $39.02 — engine's falling-knife protection flags exit rather than catching a breakdown. Specifics: Leverage penalty (D/E 2.0): -1.5; Consecutive earnings misses (2). Chart setup: Death cross but MACD improving, RSI 47. Score 4.8/10, high confidence.
Passes 7/9 gates (favorable risk/reward ratio, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity 32d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on weak momentum and death cross (50MA < 200MA). Suitability: aggressive.
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3 floor-breakers
Revenue shrinking — -0.9% YoY. Growth thesis broken unless recovery story develops.static
Ranks in the bottom of its industry peers on the composite signal. Better names in the same sector exist.static
Momentum below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
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Sell if holding. Momentum 3.9/10 is below the 5.0 floor at $39.02 — engine's falling-knife protection flags exit rather than catching a breakdown. Specifics: Leverage penalty (D/E 2.0): -1.5; Consecutive earnings misses (2). Chart setup: Death cross but MACD improving, RSI 47. Prior stop was $36.36. Score 4.8/10, high confidence.
Take-profit target: $52.20 (+33.8% upside). Prior stop was $36.36. Stop-loss: $36.36.
Leverage penalty (D/E 2.0): -1.5; Consecutive earnings misses (2); Weak overall score: 4.8/10.
Carriage Services, Inc. trades at a P/E of 14.2 (forward 10.4). TrendMatrix value score: 8.4/10. Verdict: Sell.
9 analysts cover CSV with a consensus score of 4.2/5. Average price target: $60.
What does Carriage Services, Inc. do?Carriage Services, Inc. provides funeral and cemetery services, and merchandise in the United States. It operates...
Carriage Services, Inc. provides funeral and cemetery services, and merchandise in the United States. It operates through two segments, Funeral Home Operations and Cemetery Operations. The Funeral Home Operations segment provides consultation services; funeral home facilities for visitation and memorial services; transportation services; removal and preparation of remains; cremation services; and related funeral merchandise, as well as engages in the sale of caskets and urns. The Cemetery Operations segment sells interment rights for grave sites, lawn crypts, mausoleum spaces, and niches; related cemetery merchandise, including memorial markers, outer burial containers, and monuments; and interments, inurnments, and installation of cemetery merchandise services. Carriage Services, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is based in Houston, Texas.