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Zacks Research previews SCI earnings report

By Funeral Director Daily / October 26, 2021 /

We found this report, dated October 21, interesting from Zacks Equity Research.  Here’s an interesting couple of lines from the report. . .”SCI is likely to display year-over-year declines in the top and bottom lines, when it reports third-quarter 2021 numbers on Oct 27. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenues is pegged at $800 million,…

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Seeking Alpha adds commentary on SCI as an investment

By Funeral Director Daily / October 13, 2021 /

Recently we found this article written by Daniel Jones for Seeking Alpha.  In the article he brings out the pros and cons of an investment in Service Corporation International. One question that he asked in the article when considering that Service Corporation International has greatly increased its gross revenues is this, “On its face, all…

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“Big Funeral” and some thoughts on “Universal Death Care”

By Funeral Director Daily / October 8, 2021 /

The funeral profession has long had its critics.  Those of us in the profession have to understand that and know that from time to time we are going to be broadsided by those critics’ calls for change. Recently this article entitled “How ‘Big Funeral’ made the afterlife so expensive” was published in Wired.  It’s a…

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Park Lawn Corporation adds acquisition

By Funeral Director Daily / October 5, 2021 /

It was announced last Friday that Park Lawn Corporation had acquired the Malcolm, Deavitt & Binhammer Funeral Home Limited.  The one building standalone funeral home is located in Pembroke, Ontario. The funeral home, according to this press release from Park Lawn Corporation, “performs approximately 153 calls per year.” Here’s what J. Bradley Green, Chief Executive…

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Funeral Director Daily top read stories in the last month

By Funeral Director Daily / August 19, 2021 /

It is already past the 15th of the month when we highlight and replay for you our top read stories of the past 30 days.  While we hope you read all of Funeral Director Daily’s blog posts we also realize you are busy and certainly will miss some days.  Here are our most read posts…

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SCI sees 2Q 2021 Revenue per Service jump over $600 per case

By Funeral Director Daily / July 30, 2021 /

Earlier this week the largest funeral home and cemetery operator in North America, Service Corporation International (SCI), revealed their results for the 2nd Quarter of 2021.  It was a much anticipated report as it would mark a comparison with the 2nd Quarter of 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic was flourishing and funeral homes and cemeteries…

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An opinion from Seeking Alpha on Service Corporation International

By Funeral Director Daily / July 20, 2021 /

Yesterday, July 19, Seeking Alpha published a pretty in-depth investment article from Livingston Investments on funeral home and cemetery operator Service Corporation International.  The article is entitled, “Service Corporation International:  Crisis reslient business with a premium to fair price”.  You can access the article here. There was a couple of statements in the article that…

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Funeral service. . . . .by the numbers

By Funeral Director Daily / July 20, 2021 /

Funeral Director Daily published this article last week that we titled “We saw a lot of deaths in 2020”.  The article tried to put a number to the number of death care cases across the United States in our Covid-19 pandemic year.  We came up with the number of 3,427,321 which was a 20% increase…

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Is SCI’s value in their “float”?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 2, 2021 /

I’m a fan of Warren Buffett and his company, Berkshire Hathaway.  Matter of fact, I enjoy reading his annual shareholder letter because it just doesn’t tell how his businesses are doing, it explains to the reader why he is in those businesses and how he makes money for his shareholders. Back in 1936 a gentleman…

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SCI’s Tom Ryan: “. . true earnings growth from funeral will require increased funeral services”

By Funeral Director Daily / May 11, 2021 /

Service Corporation International (SCI) reported their 1st Quarter financial results last week and in it we found a lot of information and perspective that we believe is informative and, in our opinion, pretty good news as to how the American public is coming out of the pandemic with their actions on funeral care seemingly indicating…

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