Finance
Security National Financial Corporation, the Utah-based public company with parts of its operation in the Death Care segment, reported their 3rd Quarter 2025 financials last week. When the President of the company, in this case Scott M. Quist, starts the report in the following fashion you know that as you continue reading…
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The Wall Street Journal in this recent article (you may find a paywall here) estimates that over the past 5 years Americans have gained a total of $63 trillion in personal wealth. And, this article from Yahoo Finance states “. . . the top 20% — the high-earning American households — are thriving because…
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Seeking Alpha author Daniel Jones made the following comment in this opinion article titled “Carriage Services is coming back to life” published last week about the company: “. . . I believe that the market is currently underestimating Carriage Services. The business has done a fine job of reorienting itself over the…
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National funeral home and cemetery operator Carriage Services announced their 3rd Quarter results last week. In total they announced total revenues of $102.7 million in revenues for the 3rd Quarter in comparison to the 2024 3rd Quarter of $100.7 million — that’s a 2% total increase. The same report also stated that the company’s…
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I was again reminded of stock guru Peter Lynch and his affinity for “boring investments” when I looked at the 2025 3rd Quarter results for Service Corporation International that were issued last week. Lynch, who you may know, was the broker/analyst/investor who led the mutual fund Fidelity Magellan to a 29.2% annual rate of…
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Within the last month Death Care marketing expert Glenn Gould contributed to a Funeral Director Daily article with this comment, “There are too many funeral homes. NFDA estimated 15,500 firms in 2023; 30% do fewer than 100 cases annually’, 68% do fewer than 200. Very small firms should be seeking mergers.” And…
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With the NFDA convention going on in Chicago I thought that I would give attendees something to talk about while exploring the Expo floor. It was only a couple of weeks ago that Funeral Director Daily let you know in this article that Great Britain direct cremation provider Pure Cremation was being put…
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Seeking Alpha contributiing author Daniel Jones published an article this week titled, “Service Corporation International: You might want to hold this one until your last breath”. It is a very interesting article that uses both SCI financial data and United States birth and death data to make a case that SCI, as a…
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Funeral Director Daily recently learned that Rollings Funeral Service, based in Georgia, made a couple of acquisitions involving more than 100-year old family funeral homes. Over the summer they purchased the McCombs Funeral Home of Jackson and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, — a firm that was founded in 1906. And more recently in October, Rollings…
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In this press release issued last week you can read that PlotBox has acquired MIS (sometimes referred to as HMIS). The PlotBox website brings about this statement about the integration of the companies, “ (this transaction) bring(s) one of the industry’s most comprehensive capabilities – from PlotBox’s cloud-native mapping, operations, records, and financial…
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