death care stocks

Investors prove wary of traditional funeral home stocks in 2023

By Funeral Director Daily / January 8, 2024 /

    In a year when the “Magnificent Seven” technology stocks led a robust rebound in the technology heavy NASDAQ stock index it appears that investors in traditional funeral home and cemetery public companies looked on with a wary eye as to how those companies would fare moving into the next stage of death care…

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Service Corporation 3Q: Regaining their revenue footing. . . .potential challenges ahead

By Funeral Director Daily / November 6, 2023 /

  Service Corporation International (SCI) reported their 3rd Quarter of 2023 financial results last week.  While their cumulative 6 -month report had revenues lagging behind the 2022 comparables, the 3Q 2023 report shows revenues increasing by 2.5% over the 3Q 2022 numbers — the 2nd consecutive quarter of increased revenue comparables.  SCI pulled in total…

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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 investors lose over $4 billion in market value Year to date

By Funeral Director Daily / October 3, 2022 /

Last Friday’s calendar marked the end of the 3rd quarter of 2022 and with it the end of a quarter, and fiscal year for some, of the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) companies.  It won’t be long and we will be hearing the financial reports from each of these companies and how they …

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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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SCI and other DCI stocks buck the Year-to-Date market trend

By Funeral Director Daily / April 18, 2022 /

The markets were closed on Good Friday and we thought that might be an appropriate time to take a look at how the stocks that comprise the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) have been doing in relation to each other and in relation to the stock market as a whole since the beginning…

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How some in the secular financial world see Death Care. . . interesting articles

By Funeral Director Daily / January 4, 2022 /

I like to stay abreast of what is happening in the world of finance.  And, even though I like to stay in my lane about what I know, over the years I probably bought a stock or two in a company where I didn’t really know the inside out of how the company made its…

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Retail death care stocks lead the run-up

By Funeral Director Daily / October 25, 2021 /

On Friday the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) set a new record high by closing at 35,677.  On January 1, 2021, the DJIA stood at 30,606 so that high on Friday indicates a 16.6% increase year to date for 2021.  That’s pretty impressive. . . . and the NASDAQ closed Friday up 19.1% year to…

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Death Care outpaces Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P for first third of 2021

By Funeral Director Daily / May 5, 2021 /

For the first time that I can remember since I have followed what is termed the Death Care Index (DCI), the DCI for a period of time has outpaced the standard measures of America’s public companies, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Nasdaq, and the S & P 500.  For the time period of January…

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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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