Finance

PlotBox receives private equity investment

By Funeral Director Daily / April 25, 2025 /

  We didn’t quite make it through the week without being able to give you another article which again shows a “bullishness” in the greater Death Care profession and industry.  As I’ve noticed several times recently, at the same time that many Death Care retail operators are “skittish” about the future of their business it…

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Private Equity makes investment in Alkaline Hydrolysis

By Funeral Director Daily / April 17, 2025 /

  When an investment is made in a business venture the investor has high hopes for a multiple return on their investment.  That can certainly be said for private equity companies who make some of those investments.   Unlike individual investors where passion may fuel the investment, most private equity investments are done with a…

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Seeking Alpha says SCI will “benefit from an aging population”

By Funeral Director Daily / April 11, 2025 /

    Investor network Seeking Alpha published an article last week in regards to investment opportunities in the largest publicly-held Death Care operator Service Corporation International (SCI).  The article was titled, “Service Corporation:  Benifiting from Aging Population, Strong Buy”.   From my point of view I will not go into the article but tell you…

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Death Care Index holds its own against other indexes for 1Q 2025

By Funeral Director Daily / April 7, 2025 /

  Funeral Director Daily’s analysis of the Death Care Index (DCI) for the 1st Quarter of 2025 shows that the four public companies that comprise the index held up favorably as a whole when compared against the larger followed indexes such as the Nasdaq, the S&P 500, and the Dow Jones Industrial averages.   Editors…

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Security National CEO Scott Quist on 2024: “. . .a very good year”

By Funeral Director Daily / April 3, 2025 /

  Utah-based Security National Financial Corporation released their 2024 financial results earlier this week and CEO, President, and Chairman of the Board of the company Scott Quist made the following prepared remarks in the company’s press release on the subject:   “2024 marked another year of solid progress for our Company. Our Life Insurance Segment…

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Carriage Service article featured in Seeking Alpha last week

By Funeral Director Daily / April 1, 2025 /

    As has become our custom when an article about one of the Death Care Index (DCI) companies is published in Seeking Alpha we bring that article to you.  Last week an article about Carriage Services was published titled “Carriage Services:  Strong gains look beckoning in 2025″.   You can access that article here.…

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Public companies downstream Death Care holdings

By Funeral Director Daily / April 1, 2025 /

    There was a day when someone that used the fictional Jones Funeral Home in Anytown, USA, knew that it was the Jones family that had the ownership and pride in that business.  They knew if there was anything in their small community that pertained to Death Care business, the Jones family would know…

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How wide is your Moat. . . and will tariffs change things?

By Funeral Director Daily / March 28, 2025 /

  Funny how 28 hours alone in a car gives you plenty of time to think about things you probably would not think about otherwise. . . . I arrived home in Minnesota on Monday after spending Saturday, Sunday, and part of Monday returning from our winter rental home in Southwest Florida.   You might…

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Prelude receives another venture investment

By Funeral Director Daily / March 27, 2025 /

  Prelude’s website makes this statement “We created the world’s best in-person selling software that anyone in your funeral home can use to close in just one meeting”.   One year ago on March 8, 2024, Funeral Director Daily published our first article on the company.  That article, that you can read here, was titled,…

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A Look at Funeral Industry revenues — some interesting observations

By Funeral Director Daily / March 24, 2025 /

    Where will future revenue growth for the funeral industry come from?  That’s a thought that I have after I did a small study or exercise on growth revenues for certain industries.  While my study is not scientific I looked at selected companies to gain an idea of how well the respective industries are…

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