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With many investors looking for income as well as capital gains, we now publish the top ten yielding stocks in certain industries each week. This week we look at Personal Services (see below for other industries). These stocks have been selected from a screening program. They are not recommendations to buy or sell. If you have an interest in any of them, please investigate them completely before taking any action.
Updated 2/16/12 INDUSTRY: Personal Services Company | Symbol | Div/Yield | EPS | | StoneMor Partners * | STON | 9.7% | -$0.58 | | H&R Block * | HRB | 4.8% | $1.08 | | Stewart Enterprises * | STEI | 2.2% | $0.42 | | Service Corp. | SCI | 1.8% | $0.61 | | G&K Services | GKSR | 1.7% | $1.78 | | Carriage Services | CSV | 1.7% | $0.46 | | Regis Corp. | RGS | 1.4% | -$1.67 | | Weight Watchers | WTW | 0.9% | $3.92 | | - | - | - | - | | - | - | - | - | |
| * Comments: STON: StoneMor Partners L.P., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership and operation of cemeteries in the United States. Its Cemetery Operations segment sells interment rights, caskets, burial vaults, cremation niches, markers, and other cemetery related merchandise in the southeast, northeast, and west regions of the United States. This segment also offers opening and closing, which is the digging and refilling of burial spaces to install the vault and place the casket into the vault; and various other services, including the installation of other cemetery merchandise and the perpetual care related to interment rights. The company's Funeral Homes segment provides a range of funeral-related services, such as family consultation, the removal of and preparation of remains, and the use of funeral home facilities for visitation. As of October 11, 2011, it owned and operated 272 cemeteries and 69 funeral homes in 26 states and in Puerto Rico. StoneMor GP LLC serves as the general partner of the company. StoneMor Partners L.P. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Levittown, Pennsylvania. HRB: H&R Block, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides tax preparation, retail banking, and various business advisory and consulting services. The company's Tax Services segment provides income tax return preparation, electronic filing, and other services and products related to income tax return preparation to the general public primarily in the United States, as well as in Canada and Australia. It offers its services through a system of retail offices operated directly by the company or by franchisees; and online. This segment also provides the H&R Block At Home, an income tax preparation software, as well as a range of online tax services, including tax advice, professional and do-it-yourself tax return preparation, and electronic filing services through its Website at hrblock.com primarily in the United States, Canada, and Australia; and the H&R Block Prepaid Emerald MasterCard and Emerald Advance lines of credit through H&R Block Bank, as well as other retail banking services, including checking and savings accounts, individual retirement accounts, and certificates of deposit. The company's Business Services segment offers tax and consulting services, wealth management, and capital markets services to middle-market companies in the U.S. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. STEI: Stewart Enterprises, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides funeral and cemetery products and services in the death care industry. It offers a range of funeral and cremation merchandise and services, as well as cemetery property, merchandise, and services. The company's funeral homes provide various services and products, including family consultation, removal and preparation of remains, the use of funeral home facilities for visitation, worship and funeral services, transportation services, flowers, and caskets. It also sells cemetery property and related merchandise comprising lots, lawn crypts, family and community mausoleums, monuments, markers, and burial vaults; and offers burial site openings and closings, and inscriptions. In addition, the company provides cremation memorialization options, such as columbariums, cremation niches, and cremation gardens; and maintains cemetery grounds under cemetery perpetual care contracts and local laws. As of October 31, 2011, it owned and operated 218 funeral homes and 141 cemeteries in 24 states in the United States and in Puerto Rico. The company founded in 1910 and is headquartered in Jefferson, Louisiana.
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DISCLAIMER: Dividend yields will differ from these tables due to pricing considerations. The table is generated from data that is not as of the close last Friday. Therefore, when you investigate one of these stocks, expect to see a lower or higher yield. Also, not all stocks are included in this list. There may be more in this industry that have a higher yield but due to the methodology of the screening program, they are not listed.
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