funeral business
There is no doubt that in any business the pricing of the product or service must work on at least two levels. The first level being that the price is appropriate enough to draw the customer to – or at least not drive the customer away – from the business. This would be known as…
Read MoreLast week Carriage Services announced that they will continue with their quarterly dividend of 7.5 cents per share. The dividend will be payable on March 1, 2018, to shareholders of record as of February 12, 2018. This amount of $0.075 per quarter translates into a dividend yield for Carriage Services on an annual basis of…
Read MoreIn an article from the Think Advisor which you can read here it was reported that Ogden, Utah based pre-need life insurer Great Western Life Insurance is going to be acquired by American Republic Insurance of Des Moines, Iowa. Great Western is a privately held life insurance company, specializing in Pre-Need funeral insurance started by…
Read MoreYesterday we gave you a recap of the death care public companies that make up the Death Care Index and their performance in 2017. We also promised that we would bring you some ideas that we have where those companies may be headed in the year ahead. Again, please couch your thoughts with the fact…
Read MorePropel Funeral Partners, the funeral home, cremation, and cemetery company that serves Australia and New Zealand is seeing their stock continue to rise since their initial public offering (IPO) in November. According to an article in the Motley Fool from December 27, 2017, the stock has moved from an IPO price of AUS $2.70 to…
Read MoreOver the last week I ran into an article in the Australian news about the funeral service provider Propel Funeral Partners. You can read the article for yourself here. Propel Funeral Partners has been in business for over five years but just last week took its stock public on the Australian Stock Exchange raising $131…
Read MoreU.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno, of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has dismissed a class action lawsuit against StoneMor Partners L.P. according to an article in the Delaware County Times. In this lawsuit, lead plaintiffs Judson Anderson was trying to show that investors were misled and/or materially harmed by statements StoneMor made between March…
Read MoreOn Tuesday, September 26, 2017, Zacks Investment Research issued an upgrade on the stock of funeral industry public company Carriage Services. You can read about that upgrade and more about Carriage Services in that news release here. [wpforms id=”436″ title=”true” description=”true”]
Read MoreI’m a buy and hold investor and enjoy learning about companies that over time will bring a nice positive return to my portfolio. I also like to learn as much as I can about companies and those in the death care industry give me added perspective — I always try to learn what they are…
Read MoreAn article that appeared on Seeking Alpha on September 2, 2017, concludes that StoneMor Partners will be forced to either eliminate or greatly reduce their quarterly dividend soon. StoneMor, a Master Limited Partnership built through funeral home and cemetery acquisitions has seen its stock plunge from about $26 per share in 2016 to a close…
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