funeral business
In a report from last week, MarketBeat made comments about the stock of Carriage Services. You can read the article here where MarketBeat states that one analyst rates Carriage Services a “Sell”, one analyst reports Carriage Services a “Hold”, and three analysts rate the company a “Buy”. The report also points out, over the past…
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There are a lot of reasons that people may look to get the year 2020 in their rearview mirror. However, when you look individually at the performance of the public companies in the death care realm for the calendar year, my guess is that almost all of them would be happy to repeat the year’s…
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Today’s is one of those articles that I enjoy writing. . . pure speculation on my part and if I am wrong with my thought process no one really knows until later in the year when this article has been all but forgotten. Funeral Director Daily is taking today to take a speculative look into…
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There is an old saying about location, location, location. However, if you are in the sales business you know you have to have the proper inventory also. We have a lot of subscribers in the cemetery business at Funeral Director Daily. Some of these subscribers work for the big companies like Service Corporation, Park Lawn,…
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I read this article from Yahoo Finance today entitled “The Economic Chart of the Year“. It is an interesting short read and you will learn something from reading it. Like I always try to do. . . I tried to reflect on how my actions have contributed to the articles conclusion and also tried to…
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Louisiana funeral director George Charlet has summed up the cautions surrounding this year of COVID-19 deaths when he was faced with the idea of his mother going to a funeral. He commented on that idea by saying, “I just kind of wish people used more caution and took advantage of writing a condolence letter. It’s…
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From my point of view, the new management and leadership team at StoneMor, Inc. has been executing with all the right decisions to get the Pennsylvania funeral home and cemetery based operator moving forward in a profitable direction. They have made tough decisions in contracting out cemetery labor, removing it from a direct employee relationship…
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The Associated Press recently reported in this article that the United States will, for the first time ever, pass the 3 million mark in actual deaths recorded in a single calendar year. And, in what is not a surprise to anybody in the country in this COVID-19 year, the number of deaths will be an…
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With the Christmas holiday coming up this weekend Funeral Director Daily will not be publishing on Thursday or Friday of this week. As usual, there is plenty in our industry to tell you about, but with the limited days and multiple stories we thought we would just use this afternoon to give you some teasers…
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Vale Cemetery of Schenectady, New York, was recently given the American Cemetery Excellence Award (ACE Award) as presented by American Cemetery and Cremation magazine. While the magazine calls it the ACE Award, I like to just refer to it as the “Cemetery of the Year” award because the magazine awards only one cemetery annually. According…
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