Finance

Carriage Executives on 3Q Results. . . CEO Payne hints at divestiture of some units

By Funeral Director Daily / November 7, 2018 /

Last week death care public company Carriage Services reported 3rd quarter 2018 financial results.  It was the 3rd consecutive quarter that the company had came in with a report that was less than what analysts had expected. If you read the earnings report and the subsequent Call with Analysts that you can read in its…

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StoneMor Partners Reports Preliminary 1Q 2018

By Funeral Director Daily / November 6, 2018 /

On November 1, 2018, StoneMor Partners issued a press release that you can read here which reported it’s financial results for the 1st Quarter of 2018.  That period covers the time period of January 1, 2018, until March 31, 2018.  As you may know, the company is moving from a Master Limited Partnership to a…

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Carriage Services Reports 3Q 2018

By Funeral Director Daily / November 1, 2018 /

After the markets closed yesterday funeral home and cemetery consolidator Carriage Services announced their results for the 3rd Quarter of 2018.  The company announced quarterly revenues of $64.2 million which was an increase of 5.2% over the same period of a year ago and a Net Income of $2.2 million – which is a decrease…

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SCI Keeps Chugging Along

By Funeral Director Daily / October 30, 2018 /

Death care public company and industry leader Service Corporation International announced 3rd Quarter results yesterday and with the announcement came earnings news of $0.37 per share for the quarter compared to $0.29 per share in the same quarter one year ago.  Total revenues, which include acquisitions, are up for the quarter to over $778 million…

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Funeral Home Firms announce Dividends

By Funeral Director Daily / October 29, 2018 /

Last week public market funeral home and cemetery operators Park Lawn Corporation and Carriage Services made announcements about their dividends to stockholders going forward. In an article that you can read here Park Lawn Corporation announced that they will be paying a monthly dividend in November of $C 0.038 per share – which on an…

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Spanish Funeral Firms Consider Merger

By Funeral Director Daily / October 25, 2018 /

The second and third largest funeral home firms in Spain are considering a merger according to this article from Reuters.  Santa Lucia’s subsidiary Albia and Mapfres’ subsidiary Funespana are the number two and three in funeral services in the country and are contemplating teaming up to become a company that would do about $229 million…

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The Death Care Index and an Upwards Earning Trend

By Funeral Director Daily / October 22, 2018 /

Funeral Director Daily has established the DCI or Death Care Index for eight publicly traded companies that operate in the death care industry.  The companies, all headquartered in North America, operate in the financial (preneed) sector, the manufacturing (caskets and monuments) sector, or the retail (funeral home and cemetery) sector. The companies include Security National…

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A Tale of Two Stocks

By Funeral Director Daily / October 19, 2018 /

Much like many of you, I’m an amateur investor that likes to watch what is happening to public sector stocks in the death care industry.  Today I’m going to take a look at a couple of stocks that I own in the industry – Service Corporation International and Carriage Services — and try to deduce…

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Foundation Partners Acquires South Carolina Firm

By Funeral Director Daily / October 15, 2018 /

Last week we learned that Orlando based Foundation Partners Group had acquired The Island Funeral Home and Crematory and Cremation Simplified in Hilton Head, South Carolina.  According to a press release that you can read here, that purchase expanded Foundation Partner’s network of funeral homes in South Carolina to eleven locations. Funeral Director Daily take: …

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More on Park Lawn Corporation

By Funeral Director Daily / October 4, 2018 /

Today’s earlier post was on the Park Lawn Corporation acquiring a funeral home in North Carolina.  It sometimes amazes me that these acquisitions seem to happen in bunches and today we received an announcement out of Toronto that goes to that point. I woke up this morning to find a press release that you can…

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