cemetery companies
Earlier this month deathtech solutions provider PlotBox announced that it ranked #27 in the 2023 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Awards. The Fast 50 is a ranking of the growing technology companies in Ireland. According to a press release that you can read here, “PlotBox CEO Sean McAllister credits PlotBox’s strategy for global expansion…
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Funeral home and cemetery operator Carriage Services reported their 4th Quarter and Year End Financial Reports last week. You can access that report here. In doing so they reported that the number of “Services” the company conducted had dropped 2.9% as compared to the yearly results for 2021. The company conducted 47,184 services…
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The largest funeral home and cemetery operator in North America, Service Corporation International, reported 4th Quarter 2022 and Year End 2022 financials earlier this week and one of the things we noticed is that quarterly and yearly revenue was less than 4Q2021 and less than Year End 2021. However, that is not unexpected…
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Last week death care property owner and operator StoneMor announced, in this press release, that they had completed their merger with Axar Capital Management whereby StoneMor will become a private and wholly owned subsidiary of Axar Capital Management. Prior to this “take private” movement, which was announced in this May 25, 2022, press release, Axar…
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We learned last week that Park Lawn Corporation, the publicly traded funeral home and cemetery company, added three firms located in Colorado to its group of locations. In this press release you can learn about the acquisition of Ertel Funeral Home and Crematory, Taylor Funeral Home, and Brown’s Cremation and Funeral Service. Park Lawn Corporation…
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Last week the largest public company in the death care space, Service Corporation International, reported their 2022 2nd Quarter and Half-Year financial results. For the quarter which encompasses the April thru June 2022 calendar dates, company wide revenue rose to $990.9 million as compared to the same period of last year which totaled $987.5 million.…
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Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC) continues to reel in the revenue in each of their three divisions according to this press release from mid-May containing their 1st Quarter 2020 results. The Utah based company conducts business in the death care field both in the financial services realm and the funeral and cemetery services realm. In…
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A couple of years ago I looked at StoneMor and their operations and told readers that they should, if they had a StoneMor competitor in their market, look at a possible acquisition of that competitor. Quite frankly, I was of the opinion that the way StoneMor was moving would probably lead to a liquidation and…
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This article published last week from Bloomberg Law alleges that when former Park Lawn Corporation CEO Andrew Clark resigned and left the employment of the company he carried trade secrets with him to his new employer, Plot Box, Inc. The article from Bloomberg Law notes that a lawsuit was filed in a Delaware federal court…
Read MoreUtah based Security National Financial Corporation issued their 2018 financial results earlier this month and you can see a statement from them here. The company announced a company wide increase in revenues of 1% to over $279 million. In addition, SNFC announced that their after-tax earnings from operations jumped over 53% from about $14 million…
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