Finance
It was announced yesterday in this press release that funeral home and cemetery consolidator Carriage Services had acquired the Rest Haven Funeral Home and Cemetery, based in Rockwall, Texas. The press release went on to say that this purchase represents Carriage Service’s first foray into the large and strategic market of Dallas-Fort Worth. Again, according…
As we mentioned in yesterday’s Funeral Director Daily, the earnings season is upon us for public companies to report their operating results for the 3 months ended September 30, 2019. On November 7 we know that cemetery and funeral home owner and operator StoneMor Partners LP will give us those numbers and do know that…
Funeral Director Daily tracks its proprietary Death Care Index or DCI periodically. The DCI is a group of eight publicly traded company stocks that each have some skin in the death care industry or profession. They range from companies involved in death care services to companies who manufacture things like crematories, to companies involved in…
In this release on Business Wire from the A.M. Best Company issued last week, the insurance ratings firm “has revised the outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-term ICR) of a- of Funeral Directors Life Insurance Company (FDLIC) of Abilene,…
Service Corporation International (SCI), the publicly traded acquirer and operator of funeral homes and cemeteries in North America is poised to report its 3Q 2019 results on October 30. Prior to that happening, we noticed this short report in Yahoo Finance entitled, “Will Service Corporations’s strategies help maintain momentum?”. The Yahoo Finance article concludes that…
In this press release issued by Victoriaville & Co. of Edmunston, New Brunswick, Canada, last week you can read about their acquisition of Alliance St-Laurent Casket, previously a subsidiary of Matthews Aurora Funeral Solutions. According to a quote from Steve Gackenbach, Group President of Matthews Memorialization, “This divestiture represents a manufacturing consolidation as part of…
Last spring Funeral Director Daily published an article on the inception of San Francisco based Tulip Cremation. You can read that article here. In it, we had talked that we had been at an industry get together at that time and a lot of talk revolved around how Tulip Cremation, and its internet direct to…
StoneMor Partners, L.P. issued a press release the other day expressing some of the movements they are making as they execute their self-termed “turnaround” of the company. As you may know, StoneMor Partners operates 321 cemeteries and 90 funeral homes and has incurred several consecutive quarters of losses in their operation. You can read their…
As a saver I keep what investments I have in separate buckets. I have a bucket for my 401k, I have a bucket that generates current income, and I have a bucket where I hold stocks with the philosophy that these stocks “will be worth more in ten years than they are worth today”. The…
