Finance
On Thursday, July 30, Service Corporation International (SCI) held their quarterly earnings call to give their opinion of the company’s 2nd Quarter 2026 results and answer questions from analysts who cover the company. Funeral Director Daily receives a transcript of the entire conversation through our subscription with Seeking Alpha. You can access…
Service Corporation International (SCI) reported their 2nd Quarter of 2026 on July 29 — which happened to be a bad day on Wall Street. On that day the Dow Jones Index dropped 2.19%, the S&P 500 dropped 1.52%, and the NASDAQ dropped 1.74%. It was a day where the Federal Reserve held tight…
Earlier his week I heard from a couple of people who notified me that Foundation Partners Group (FPG) apparently had a recent round of employee layoffs. That seems to be confirmed by employee and now former employee posts on Reddit and other conversational websites. One of those individuals sent me this comment that I…
Over the years that I owned and operated a funeral home I saw an increasing cremation percentage almost every year. And, like most funeral homes, my charges for traditional burial were more than my charges for any type of cremation. If one did not increase pricing, that dynamic in itself would lead to…
Private Equity (PE) ownership in the funeral, cremation, cemetery, casket, and Death Care supply industry has been a hot topic over the past couple of years. Private Equity companies have been purchasing, aiding in the purchasing, or providing capital to many of the companies in Death Care over the past several years. This…
History will tell us that the oil boom in Oklahoma began in 1897 when a massive discovery of oil was discovered near Bartlesville. Since December 2025 the folks at Park Lawn Corporation seem to have found their own “boom” in Oklahoma. We received this press release last week announcing that Park Lawn Corporation…
We learned earlier this week that Pinnacle Funeral Service had acquired Gent Funeral Home & Cremation Services of Alton, Illinois. You can learn more about the acquisition from this article on the Pinnacle Funeral Service website. According to the information received, Gent Funeral Home & Cremation Services has served their community for over…
My routine is pretty normal during the work week. I get up before 6 am, put the coffee on, do my devotions, and then enjoy the coffee for a few minutes while watching the business program “Mornings with Maria (Bartiromo) ” on Fox Business Channel before checking to see that Funeral Director Daily was…
Back in this article of April 2, 2026, we called Death Care stocks a “Port in the Storm”. As that article indicates, Death Care stocks as represented by the Death Care Index (DCI) showed a gain of 5.2% for the 1st Quarter of 2026 even as the major indexes all had declines for the…
I started publishing Funeral Director Daily about the same time that entrepreneur Katrina Spade was involved in a pilot research project with Washington State University on the possibility and merits of composting human remains. During that time I can remember telling some of my friends about this project and the eventual legalization of the…
