DCI

Death Care Index drops, now in negative position for the year

By Funeral Director Daily / October 9, 2023 /
WallStreet

  The 3rd Quarter of 2023 ended with the end of September and we thought it would be a good time to take a look at how the public companies in Death Care have held up over the course of the past quarter and past nine months.  From our point of view it looks like…

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Recent Death Care Index (DCI) rise reflects cautionary growth of the profession

By Funeral Director Daily / August 28, 2023 /

    We’ve just passed the time period where the companies that comprise the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) have publicly shared their results for the April thru June 2023 time period.  The five companies that comprise the index include Matthews International, Security National Financial Corporation, Carriage Services, Park Lawn Corporation, and Service…

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What’s fueling Matthews International’s growth

By Funeral Director Daily / July 19, 2023 /

        Most of us in the Death Care business recognize Matthews International as a trusted supplier in the monument, cemetery, cremation, and casket business.  However, this recent article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette gives us some insight into what has been fueling the company’s rise in stock price and potential future growth prospects.…

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DCI shines. . .outgains some composite indexes year to date

By Funeral Director Daily / February 13, 2023 /

    Funeral Director Daily’s Death Care Index (DCI), which is reflective of Death Care public companies public stock prices, has grown at a pace of about 9.7% for the first six weeks of calendar year 2023.  That rate of increase surpasses both the Dow Jones Industrials and the S&P 500 indexes during the same…

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Death care stocks down 18% Year to Date

By Funeral Director Daily / June 27, 2022 /

I read this interesting article on Saturday morning from Yahoo Finance’s Morning Brief entitled “What to expect from a recession everyone sees coming“.  The author of the article makes this statement, “. . . recessions can be mild and short if the causes are anticipated and less systemic, and more severe and longer if they…

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Investors enamored with Death Care in 2021

By Funeral Director Daily / December 8, 2021 /

It’s certainly been a strong year for the stock market. . . .even with recent declines last week tipped by rising inflation and fears of the Omicron variant of Covid-19.  And, the strong year has not only been good for investors in America’s best known industries and services, but in the companies that make a…

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Death Care Index rises 14.7% year to date

By Funeral Director Daily / July 6, 2021 /

As we move into the seventh month of the calendar year, we felt that it was a good time for a check up on the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI).  The DCI is a composite dollar amount of owning one share of stock in each of the seven public companies in the United…

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Checking in on the DCI. . . up over 10% year to date

By Funeral Director Daily / March 12, 2021 /

The last time we checked in on Funeral Director Daily’s proprietary Death Care Index (DCI) was in this article from January 4, 2021.  At that time we noted that the stock index of companies in the death care realm had a total return (capital appreciation plus dividend) of about 6.85% for the calendar year of…

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Matthews 1Q 2021 shows improvement, Memorialization segment grows revenue

By Funeral Director Daily / February 2, 2021 /

Earnings period is upon us again in the death care industry.  Over the next 8 weeks the eight death care public companies that make up the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) will report sales and earnings for the October, November, and December periods.  To those on a calendar year accounting format that will…

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Death Care Index still lags the market

By Funeral Director Daily / December 3, 2020 /

We checked into Funeral Director Daily’s proprietary Death Care Index (DCI) after the markets closed on Monday, the last day of November.  That check-in allowed us to take a look at the eight stocks that make up the DCI and see where they were individually and as a group and how that group compared to…

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