Carriage Services, Inc.

CSV Consumer Cyclical Personal Services

Carriage Services, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $417.4 million, up 3.28% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue was flat, EPS grew 4.00%, free cash flow fell 57.5% and total debt rose 31.4%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for ten consecutive years, revenue growth for three.

36.20 0.07 +0.19%
Market cap
$573.8M
P/E
12.7×
Fwd P/E
10.9×
Dividend yield
1.24%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
1.21
Beneish M
−2.15
Dividend safety
75/100

Carriage Services, Inc. (CSV) Piotroski F-score

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Carriage Services, Inc.'s Piotroski F-score for fiscal 2025 is 7 out of 9: 7 of nine tests of profitability, leverage and efficiency passed, up from 6 in fiscal 2024.

Piotroski F-score, annual

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Period Piotroski F-score Change (points)
FY2025 7 1.00
FY2024 6 1.00
FY2023 5 (2.00)
FY2022 7 0.00
FY2021 7 0.00
FY2020 7 0.00
FY2019 7 2.00
FY2018 5 (1.00)
FY2017 6 1.00
FY2016 5 —

How fiscal 2025’s score is made up

Test This year Year before Result Points
Positive return on assets 3.87% 2.55% Pass 1
Positive operating cash flow 60.69m 52.00m Pass 1
Rising return on assets 3.87% 2.55% Pass 1
Cash flow above net income 9.87m 19.48m Pass 1
Falling long-term leverage 0.41 0.42 Pass 1
Rising current ratio 0.98 0.77 Pass 1
No new shares issued 15,428,000 14,971,000 Fail 0
Rising gross margin 35.14% 35.48% Fail 0
Rising asset turnover 0.32 0.32 Pass 1
Piotroski F-score Strong — most fundamentals improved 7

How the Piotroski F-score works

One point for each of nine tests, this fiscal year against the one before: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, cash flow above net income, falling long-term leverage, a rising current ratio, no new shares issued, a rising gross margin and rising asset turnover. The ratios are the ones on this site, so each can be checked.

Joseph Piotroski (2000) called 8–9 high and 0–1 low; reading it in three bands is the common convention:

7–9Strong — most fundamentals improved
4–6Mixed
0–3Weak — most fundamentals deteriorated

Where this differs from the paper: return on assets is on average rather than beginning-of-year assets, and weighted basic shares stand in for shares issued. The score is shown only when all nine tests can be worked out, which takes three fiscal years; banks and insurers, which report no current assets or gross profit, have none.

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What Piotroski F-score is

The Piotroski F-Score tells an investor how many signs of improving profitability, funding and efficiency a company shows against a year earlier.

One point for each of nine tests against a year earlier: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, cash flow above net income, falling long-term leverage, rising current ratio, no new shares issued, rising gross margin, and rising asset turnover

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