Death Care Index
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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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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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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If you watched the stock market last week you would see that it bounced around a little bit. That happens all the time dependent on world events and the business environment, but also four times per year we get in a period where public companies report the business results for the past three month period. …
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Last week Vrishali Bagree of Zacks presented an article that appeared on Nasdaq.com. It was entitled “Rising demand keeps funeral industry going: Four stocks to watch”. You can read that article here. In essence the article tells that the Zacks Funeral Services industry is housed within the broader Zacks Consumer Staples sector. According to the…
Read MoreIt’s been a while since Funeral Director Daily has updated its proprietary Death Care Index or DCI. While not a scientific weighting of public company death care stocks it does give some semblance to what the investment community is thinking about the funeral, cemetery, crematory, and preneed services business community and the direction that they…
Read MoreIf you follow Wall Street and the American stock market you will know that we are in the period of the summer where public companies start to report their earnings as of June 30. For most of the companies who operate on a calendar year this is their 2nd Quarter results and gives investors a…
Read MoreFor those of you who follow the public companies in the death care industry we at Funeral Director Daily have initiated coverage of what we call the Death Care Index (DCI) for the last couple of years to help you get a context of how our industry is comparing to the market as a whole. …
Read MoreAfter Friday’s market close I thought it might be a good time to check up with what has happened in the Death Care industry since the beginning of the year. As you know the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) is made up of the value of one share of stock for eight…
Read MoreSecurity National Financial Corporation, a member of the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) of public companies recorded 3rd quarter 2018 after-tax earnings of $2.014 million as compared to last year’s 3rd quarter profits of $1.097 million. You can read the company’s complete press release here. The company which operates in the Life Insurance,…
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