Carriage Services (NYSE:CSV – Get Free Report) and Avolta (OTCMKTS:DFRYF – Get Free Report) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.
Profitability
This table compares Carriage Services and Avolta’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Carriage Services | 10.69% | 19.23% | 3.71% |
| Avolta | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Analyst Ratings
This is a summary of recent ratings for Carriage Services and Avolta, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Carriage Services | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2.40 |
| Avolta | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Carriage Services and Avolta”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Carriage Services | $417.29 million | 1.29 | $51.51 million | $2.79 | 12.13 |
| Avolta | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Carriage Services has higher revenue and earnings than Avolta.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
66.5% of Carriage Services shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Carriage Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Carriage Services beats Avolta on 9 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Carriage Services
Carriage Services, Inc. provides funeral and cemetery services, and merchandise in the United States. It operates in 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; sale of caskets and urns; cremation services; and related funeral merchandise. 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.
About Avolta
Avolta AG operates as a travel retailer. The company's retail brands include general travel retail shops under the Dufry, World Duty Free, Nuance, Hellenic Duty Free, Zurich Duty-Free or Stockholm Duty-Free, Autogrill, and HMSHost brands; Dufry shopping stores; brand boutiques; convenience stores primarily under the Hudson brand; and specialized shops and theme stores. It offers perfumes and cosmetics, food and confectionery, wines and spirits, watches and jewelry, fashion and leather, tobacco goods, souvenirs, electronics, soft drinks, packaged food, travel accessories, personal items, sunglasses, destination, and other products, as well as newspapers, magazines, and books. It operates duty-free and duty-paid shops located at airports, border, downtown and hotel shops, railway stations and other, cruise liners and ferries, seaports, and motorways in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North America, Latin America, and the Asia Pacific. The company was formerly known as Dufry AG and changed its name to Avolta AG in November 2023. Avolta AG was incorporated in 1865 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.
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