Funeral Director Daily
When it comes to the five remaining public company stocks that make up the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) we have heard from four of them as to their Quarter ending on December 31, 2022. We are just waiting to hear from the management of Security National Financial Corporation to finish up…
It’s not every day that you turn to the magazine Popular Mechanics to find an article about the Death Care profession. However, that is exactly where I found this article about “Have trocar will travel” embalming and body preparation specialist Monica Torres. I was unaware of Torres and her company NXT Generation…
Late last month Anthem Partners announced they had passed the milestone of 2-years in business. The Frisco, Texas, based company has grown its operations in that time period. In their two years they have amassed a group of 80 operations in five states and two Canadian provinces. In a press release Anthem…
If you own, operate, or manage a Death Care business you have massaged your business through the pandemic, supply chain breakdowns, inflated related cost issues, and more in the past two to three years. Are you ready for what many people are advocating in the near future — the “4-Day Work Week”? …
I think the title of this article poses an interesting question. And, I also believe it is one that is not easily answered. I’m writing this article on Monday, March 6, so that is the data that I will use. I was spurred to write the article when I saw in this…
Last week we wrote of the death of Robert L. Waltrip, founder of funeral and cemetery business Service Corporation International (SCI). In the article I wrote that Waltrip was arguably the biggest influence on the direction of the Death Care in the United States during the last half of the 20th century. …
Yesterday it hit the United States business markets that InvoCare, Australia’s largest death care provider was offered AUS$ 1.81 billion in a non-binding take-over offer. According to this article on the subject from Reuters, that would equate to an offer in the amount of US$ 1.22 billion. The offer has came from…
If funeral homes are going to continue to serve their communities with full service, they have to be profitable. Many funeral homes have seen margins erode as families choose less service and other death care competitors move into their service areas. Our friends at “2 Guys and a Question” podcast ponder that…
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…
Last week I had a two hour drive and set my radio to a station on Sirius that featured a news talk show. What was highly unusual was that the group of well-known broadcasters started talking about death care and then started talking about what their wishes would be for their own…
