StoneMor Partners
Last week cemetery and funeral home consolidator StoneMor Partners issued press releases regarding their company. In essence the releases shared the following information: Release of Preliminary Unaudited 2017 Full Year Financials The appointment of a new CEO for the company, Mr. Joe Redling The establishment of a committee to look into the possibility of changing…
Read MoreI present you this article published yesterday from investor opinion site Seeking Alpha on the potential upside of StoneMor Partners. It is a good read and, like most articles pertaining to the death care industry, there is something to take from it. Funeral Director Daily take: I will tell you, however, as a 35 year industry…
Read MoreStoneMor Partners issued a press release last week that it will not file its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017 by its due date of April 2, 2018. They are seeking a waiver to extend the date by which the Form 10-K must be filed. You can read…
Read MoreFriday marked the stock market’s first “quadruple witching day” of 2018 so we thought it might be a good time to look at the performance of the death care industry stocks and how they performed in the first 2 1/2 months of the 2018 market. Funeral Director Daily’s Death Care Index or DCI is a…
Read MoreOn Friday StoneMor Partners issued a press release that you can read here. In it they announced that current CEO Paul Grady would be leaving and would be replaced by Leo Pound, who has been a director of StoneMor since 2014 and was previously their acting Chief Operating Officer. According to the release, Pound is…
Read MoreI get a lot of feedback on Funeral Director Daily and I understand people follow the site for many reasons. One of the most common things I hear is that readers enjoy updates on what the public companies in the death care industry are doing. So, I’ve decided that when I find an article…
Read MoreDeath care stocks, StoneMor Partners and Carriage Services, both components of the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI), had postive movements last Friday which lifted their companies stock price and market capitalization. Carriage Services reported Year End earnings for 2017 last week and we at Funeral Director Daily commented that the company “keeps chugging…
Read MoreSometimes when you really need to know about your business, you should listen to somebody from the outside. They see that perspective from another view — and many times it is the view that Mr. Outside can see that Mr. Inside has overlooked. So, today, I have found two articles from the people on the…
Read MoreWe’ve said before that 2017 was an unusual year for StoneMor Partners, LP in that they had some key executives leave or retire and, probably partly because of that and an accounting review, they delayed their reporting to the Security and Exchange Commission. They have been working hard and on January 26, 2018, the company…
Read MoreIn a year when the stock market has been tremendously rewarding to those that were invested in it, the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) of public companies in the industry did not fare near as well. For the year from January 1, 2017 thru December 31, 2017, if you were invested in the…
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