Finance
The end of trading on Monday marked the end of the first-half of the year for stocks. And, it was a significant day as on Monday the Nasdaq and S&P 500 both recorded All-Time highs in their numbers. However, as you may know, the road to the record in 2025 was not a straight…
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Last week I read this article authored by Kenio Fontes from Seeking Alpha concerning Death Care behometh Service Corporation International (SCI) and titled “The quiet dividend machine you probably overlooked“. As is the custom of Funeral Director Daily I will not comment on the specifics of a stock market related article, but it…
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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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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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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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The negotiations to sell and or purchase a funeral home generally involve “what one is buying and how are they paying for it”. It’s pretty common to hear the terms “asset sale”, “real estate”, “convenants not to compete”, “consulting agreement”, “equipment”, “inventory”, and “goodwill” among the nomenclature of the transaction that takes place between…
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Over my lifetime some things have just stuck with me. A couple of those things are quotes that share a message of complicated projects or ideas that might seem insurmountable but also give the hope to try. . . because maybe the idea might just work. The first one I remember is…
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In this very brief press release issued out of Toronto, Ontario, last weekend funeral home and cemetery operator Park Lawn Corporation announced that they had acquired two free-standing funeral homes in Colorado’s Western Slope. The press release announced that they had purchased substantially all of the assets of Hood Mortuary located in Durango,…
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Last week, as you can read in this article, credit rating company Moody’s downgraded the status of the United States Government debt from Aaa to Aa1 – which is a downgrade of one notch. In making the recent downgrade, the article states: “The US has lost its last perfect credit rating, as influential…
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On May 1 of this year Matthews International announced the closing of the sale of their SGK Brand Solutions Segment in this press release. According to this press release that was posted yesterday from Matthews International it didn’t take long to put some of those proceeds to work as they announced the acquisition…
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