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Yesterday I received an opinion article from Seeking Alpha entitled, “The Cornovirus’ Potential Impact on Service Corporation International’s Stock Price”. I will say that I do not have a personal opinion on this article but make it available simply because it is a public article on the virus and its potential impact on funeral services,…
Read MoreIt is kind of hard to believe but the State of Connecticut has yet to approve the idea of serving anything other than hot drinks and water in funeral homes. They are one of only two states – Pennsylvania being the other – that has not allowed this action. However, that may be changing as…
Read MoreYou will seldom see me inflict my political beliefs into Funeral Director Daily but it is hard at this time of the 2020 election cycle not to watch television and get some type of information on the political happenings. And, I won’t go into candidates or political parties, but the current divisiveness between capitalism and…
Read MoreAs we have done on several other Fridays, we thought we would just send your way a few articles that we thought might be of interest without any commentary and let you decide if you want to learn more about the items featured. Here is an article on an Ohio cemetery owned by StoneMor Partners…
Read MoreThe headline from a Motley Fool piece that you can read here states, “InvoCare delivers solid profit and dividend growth in FY2019”. Australia’s largest funeral and cremation provider recorded revenue growth of 4% for the year which led to a 19.6% increase in after tax operating earnings. For the year, InvoCare brought in revenue of…
Read MoreIn this article from the Los Angeles Times you can read about Assembly Bill 2592 (AB2592) that was recently introduced by Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia. AB2592 would, if passed and signed into law, allow for human composting in the state of California as an eco-friendly alternative to traditional burial or cremation. Human recomposition was passed into…
Read MoreEven before Robert Waltrip bought that second location in Houston in the early 1960’s there were lots of funeral homes that changed hands. And, I’m guessing that over the years about 99% of those business transactions, especially the transferring of a funeral home to a new owner in a small community, went off without a…
Read MoreJust last week we wrote of a Minnesota funeral director who had taken the time, effort, and expense to customize a casket to look like a school bus for one of the beloved citizens of his community. That person, who drove a school bus in the small community for 55 years, recently died and his…
Read MoreLast week funeral service and cemetery consolidator and operator Carriage Services, based in Houston, Texas, reported 4th Quarter and Year End results for 2019. They also provided commentary on how they believe that the company will move in the next three years. I will provide some factual information in this report but also my…
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