Funeral Director Daily

Data is all around you — do you see it?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 26, 2025 /

    There’s a lot of places that one can collect data to help them with their business – and that business could be Death Care or international espionage.  This story is not necessarily about Death Care, but it is about finding data in interesting places that you may not be looking for it.  …

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Carriage Services’ lack of acquisitions disappoints Seeking Alpha researcher

By Funeral Director Daily / June 26, 2025 /

  About ten days ago this article appeared on investor site Seeking Alpha authored by Caffital Research.  The article was about funeral home/crematory/cemetery operator Carriage Services.  The title of the article was “Carriage Services:  Further upside requires further M&A.”   In that article the author(s) stated “Carriage Services, Inc. has still been quiet on the M&A…

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Acquisitions, equity funding, new funeral homes. . . The nexus between technology and traditional continues

By Funeral Director Daily / June 25, 2025 /

    In the last couple of weeks I’ve noticed articles that truly point to Death Care as being at a nexus, or intersection, of technology and tradition.  Today’s Funeral Director Daily article brings you information and links to articles that truly show that Death Care is changing.   There is one article that shows…

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“The Mortician” becomes HBO’s “most-watched” documentary in over 5 years

By Funeral Director Daily / June 24, 2025 /

    Here’s what this article in Deadline says of the recent HBO series “The Mortician”:  “The three-part documentary series, which chronicles the inhumane practices at a funeral home in Southern California, debuted on June 1. Since then, the show has tallied more than 2.6M cross-platform viewers in the U.S., per the network.  It’s now…

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Seeking Alpha article on Service Corporation International: ” A stock to take to the grave”

By Funeral Director Daily / June 24, 2025 /

    An article was authored by Seeking Alpha contributor Daniel Jones last week about the largest funeral home and cemetery operator in North America — Service Corporation International (SCI).  As our headline mentions, the title of the article, that you can access here, is “SCI:  A stock to take to the grave”.   Jones…

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So, you’re selling your funeral home. . . . and moving into retirement

By Funeral Director Daily / June 23, 2025 /

  We keep hearing that about 50% of the family owned funeral homes in North America will change hands within the next decade. . . .If there are about 20,000 funeral homes in the U.S. and Canada that means that about 10,000 will be sold.   That’s a lot of transactions.  The companies that help…

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Debt, Demographics, and Disruption

By Funeral Director Daily / June 20, 2025 /

  Are we living in the age of Debt, Demographics, and Disruption?  And, if we are, are there parallels from life and investing that might also move into the Death Care realm?   I heard the phrase “Debt, Demographics, and Disruption” when I sat down to catch my breath on Wednesday afternoon after returning from…

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Dignity Funeral Directors not afraid to make changes, returns to profitability

By Funeral Director Daily / June 19, 2025 /

    Dignity Funeral Directors is now the name of a company once known as public company Dignity plc that was taken private in 2023.   The company is a funeral service provider based in the United Kingdom.  They recently reported their 2024 financials to the Companies House in Great Britain and in that report,…

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OneRoom brings Revenue Generation to your streaming

By Funeral Director Daily / June 18, 2025 /

    We recently received a press release from OneRoom, a trusted leader in funeral streaming.  The press release made known that the company has launched its new “Rev Gen Bundle” – defined as a way to make every stream work harder for your funeral home. With Tribute Buttons and Pre-Need Pathways, funeral homes can…

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Sunset regulations, Hollywood, Guest writers, and Out-of-the-Box thinking dominate “Most Read” articles of the past 30 days

By Funeral Director Daily / June 17, 2025 /

  Once again it is time for Funeral Director Daily to give our readers a 2nd chance to read articles that they may have missed in the past 30 days.  We’ve highlighted the Top 5 most read from May 15 to June 15 below.   The articles again show the variety of topics that Funeral…

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