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Carriage Services, Inc. provides death care services and merchandise in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Funeral Home Operations and Cemetery Operations. The Funeral Home Operations segment offers various services to meet a family's funeral needs, including consultation, the removal and preparation of remains, the sale of caskets and related funeral merchandise, the use of funeral home facilities for visitation and worship, and transportation. As of December 31, 2008, it operated 136 funeral homes in 25 states. The Cemetery Operations segment provides interment services; the rights to interment in cemetery sites, including grave sites, mausoleum crypts, and niches; and related cemetery merchandise, such as memorials and vaults. As of December 31, 2008, this segment operated 32 cemeteries in 11 states. Carriage Services, Inc. also markets funeral and cemetery services and products on a preneed basis. Its preneed funeral or cemetery contracts enable families to establish, in advance, the type of service to be performed, the products to be used, and the cost of such products and services. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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Key Statistics

Closing Price	6.15
Volume	25223
Volume Avg	34698
52 Week High	6.57
52 Week Low	5.05
PE	17.02
PE (group average)	40
EPS Year	0.36
EPS change Q/Q	41.67%
EPS change Q/Q Yr ago	13.33%
EPS change Q/Q next Q est	-5.56%
EPS change Y/Y	-8.7%
REV change Q/Q	5.82%
REV change Q/Q Yr ago	8.76%
EPS next Q est	0.18
EPS next Y est	0.77
Divident Annual	0.10
Dividend Yield	1.63%