public funeral companies

Propel Funeral Partners reports 1st Half 2024

By Funeral Director Daily / March 26, 2024 /

    The growth of Propel Funeral Partners of Australia and New Zealand is apparent when you look at the company’s financial report covering the 1st-Half of 2024, ending on December 31, 2023.  In looking at the report you will see that, what is now believed to be the South Pacific’s largest “publicly-held” death care…

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Carly Simon and SCI: “Nobody does it Better”

By Funeral Director Daily / February 19, 2024 /

    I’m a James Bond movie fan and in 1977 the 10th movie of the series came out. . . “The Spy Who Loved Me” was the 3rd movie of the series to feature Roger Moore as James Bond and it also featured what became a #2 hit on the Billboard charts feature song…

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SCI execs give some insight to the “state of the business” in quarterly earnings call

By Funeral Director Daily / November 8, 2023 /

    Service Corporation International (SCI) reported 3rd Quarter financial numbers for 2023 last week which we highlighted in Monday’s edition of Funeral Director Daily.  Today, we perused the company’s earnings call of last week to try to find some insight into the questions those in the profession are asking at this point in time.…

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Carriages Services 2Q 2023: Revenues increase but Interest expense holds back profits

By Funeral Director Daily / August 8, 2023 /

      Houston based funeral home and cemetery operator Carriage Services reported their 2nd Quarter 2023 financial report last week one day after Service Corporation International.  What may become a common theme is that the companies have been able to increase revenue quarter over quarter during the past year but those gains run into…

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SCI reports 2Q 2023. . . .we see a mixed bag of news

By Funeral Director Daily / August 3, 2023 /

      Service Corporation International (SCI) the largest Death Care business in North America reported their results for the 2nd Quarter of 2023 earlier this week.  They reported an increase in sales revenue of about 2.2% over the same quarter of 2022 — sales in 2Q2023 totaled $1.013 billion as compared to $990.9 million…

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Matthews CEO Bartolacci: “This is a different business than it was just 3 years ago”

By Funeral Director Daily / July 31, 2023 /

  Matthews International, parent company of Aurora Casket and Matthews Cremation, reported their 3rd Quarter 2023 results and 9-Month results for 2023 last week.  I think the overriding take on that report is that Matthews International has continued their growing revenue spurt moved mostly by their recent entrance into the energy storage solutions business.  …

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Park Lawn year-end sees mixed results

By Funeral Director Daily / March 7, 2023 /

      Park Lawn Corporation (PLC) released their 2022 4th Quarter and 2022 Year-End reports last week.  In doing so they announced that their Revenue numbers for both the quarter and the year increased while their Net Earnings decreased in comparison to the 2021 4th Quarter and 2021 Year-End.  You can see the press…

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SCI 4Q Revenue and Year End Revenue lower than comparables

By Funeral Director Daily / February 17, 2023 /

    The largest funeral home and cemetery operator in North America, Service Corporation International, reported 4th Quarter 2022 and Year End 2022 financials earlier this week and one of the things we noticed is that quarterly and yearly revenue was less than 4Q2021 and less than Year End 2021.  However, that is not unexpected…

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Recapping FY 2021 with the public companies

By Funeral Director Daily / May 2, 2022 /

When you read this it will already be May 2022 and we will be two-thirds of the way into the 2nd Quarter of most company’s 2022 business year.  As a matter of fact, the reports of January thru March have already started to roll out as Matthews International provided us information on the January thru…

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SCI’s CEO Tom Ryan on 2021 results, 2022 expectations

By Funeral Director Daily / February 24, 2022 /

Recently Service Corporation International (SCI) reported on their 2021 financial results.  As is customary, SCI’s top officers then took part in a discussion with financial services analysts on the results and other thoughts as how they relate to the company moving forward.  You can see a transcript of that discussion here. What we have done…

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