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Carriage Services (Carriage Services) Interest Coverage

: 2.67 (As of Dec. 2023)
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Interest Coverage is a ratio that determines how easily a company can pay interest expenses on outstanding debt. It is calculated by dividing a company's Operating Income by its Interest Expense. Carriage Services's Operating Income for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $24.2 Mil. Carriage Services's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-9.1 Mil. Carriage Services's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 2.67. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

Warning Sign:

Ben Graham prefers companies' interest coverage to be at least 5. Carriage Services Inc interest coverage is 2.27, which is low.

The historical rank and industry rank for Carriage Services's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:

CSV' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.86   Med: 2.97   Max: 3.7
Current: 2.27


CSV's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
86.25% of 80 companies
in the Personal Services industry
Industry Median: 10.08 vs CSV: 2.27

Note: If both Interest Expense and Interest Income are empty, while Net Interest Income is negative, then use Net Interest Income as Interest Expense.


Carriage Services Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Carriage Services's Interest Coverage can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Note: For Interest Coverage, "No debt" indicates no long-term debt. An indication of "No Debt" does not necessarily mean that the company has no long-term debt obligations; it could be due to missing data in the quarterly or annual report. Use caution when interpreting this information.

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Carriage Services Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Interest Coverage
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.03 2.40 3.70 3.16 2.27

Carriage Services Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Interest Coverage Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.87 2.44 2.24 1.74 2.67

Competitive Comparison

For the Personal Services subindustry, Carriage Services's Interest Coverage, along with its competitors' market caps and Interest Coverage data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Carriage Services Interest Coverage Distribution

For the Personal Services industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Carriage Services's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Carriage Services's Interest Coverage falls into.



Carriage Services Interest Coverage Calculation

Interest Coverage is a ratio that determines how easily a company can pay interest expenses on outstanding debt. It is calculated by dividing a company's Operating Income (EBIT) by its Interest Expense:

If Interest Expense is negative and Operating Income is positive, then

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income /Interest Expense

Else if Interest Expense is negative and Operating Income is negative, then

The company did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

Else if Interest Expense is 0 and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation is 0, then

The company had no debt (1).


Note: If both Interest Expense and Interest Income are empty, while Net Interest Income is negative, then use Net Interest Income as Interest Expense.

Carriage Services's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023, Carriage Services's Interest Expense was $-36.3 Mil. Its Operating Income was $82.2 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $600.8 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*82.17/-36.266
=2.27

Carriage Services's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Dec. 2023, Carriage Services's Interest Expense was $-9.1 Mil. Its Operating Income was $24.2 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $600.8 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*24.183/-9.053
=2.67

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's Financial Strength is.


Carriage Services  (NYSE:CSV) Interest Coverage Explanation

Ben Graham requires that a company has a minimum interest coverage of 5 with the companies he invested. If the interest coverage is less than 2, the company is burdened by debt. Any business slow or recession may drag the company into a situation where it cannot pay the interest on its debt.

Interest Coverage is an important factor when GuruFocus ranks a company's overage Financial Strength .


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Carriage Services (Carriage Services) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
3040 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 300, Houston, TX, USA, 77056
Carriage Services Inc is a leading provider of funeral and cemetery services and merchandise in the United States. It operates in two business segments: The Funeral Home Operations segment offers burial, cremation, and consultation services; removes and prepares remains; sells caskets, urns, and related funeral merchandise; and enables the use of funeral home facilities for visitation, remembrance, and transportation services. The Cemetery Operations segment provides services, such as mausoleum crypts, private estates, lawn crypt gardens, traditional single burial gravesites, and burial vaults. The majority of revenue is derived from The Funeral Home Operations segment.
Executives
Julie Sanders director 3040 POST OAK BLVD., CARRIAGE SERVICES, SUITE 300, HOUSTON TX 77056
Somer Webb director C/O SOLO BRANDS, INC., 1001 MUSTANG DRIVE, GRAPEVILLE TX 76051
Charles Fargason director 11510 QUAIL HOLLOW LANE, HOUSTON TX 77024
Melvin C Payne director, officer: CEO 3040 POST OAK BLVD, SUITE 300, HOUSTON TX 77056
Paul Donald Elliott other: Regional Partner 5219 LAURELWOOD, KINGWOOD TX 77345
Shane Pudenz officer: VP of Sales and Marketing 3040 POST OAK BLVD., CARRIAGE SERVICES, SUITE 200, HOUSTON TX 77056
Lance Kian Granmayeh officer: EVP, CFO and Treasurer 1201 LOUISIANA STREET, SUITE 3100, HOUSTON TX 77002
Patteson Donald Douglas Jr director 1111 BAGBY, SUITE 1600, HOUSTON TX 77002
Adeola Olaniyan other: Principal Accounting Officer 3040 POST OAK BLVD., SUITE 300, HOUSTON TX 77056
Steven D Metzger other: Senior VP and General Counsel 6332 SCHILLER STREET, HOUSTON TX 77055
Carlos R. Quezada officer: VP of Cemetery Sales/Marketing 3040 POST OAK BLVD., SUITE 300, HOUSTON TX 77056
Carl Benjamin Brink officer: Principal Financial Officer 28634 PLEASANT FOREST DRIVE, KATY TX 77056
Robbie Pape other: Sr. VP & Regional Partner 3040 POST OAK BLVD, SUITE 300, HOUSTON TX 77056
Peggy Schappaugh officer: VP of Operations & Acquistions 3040 POST OAK BLVD., SUITE 300, HOUSTON TX 77056
Shawn R Phillips other: Regional Partner 3040 POST OAK BLVD, SUITE 300, HOUSTON TX 77056