Financial Contrast: Avolta (OTCMKTS:DFRYF) vs. Carriage Services (NYSE:CSV)

Carriage Services (NYSE:CSV) and Avolta (OTCMKTS:DFRYF) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

66.5% of Carriage Services shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Carriage Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Carriage Services and Avolta”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Carriage Services	$417.44 million	1.28	$51.51 million	$2.79	12.06
Avolta	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Carriage Services has higher revenue and earnings than Avolta.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations 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

Carriage Services currently has a consensus target price of $51.00, suggesting a potential upside of 51.56%. Given Carriage Services’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Carriage Services is more favorable than Avolta.

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

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.