funeral home public companies
Matthews International, a death care conglomerate with operations in crematory equipment, bronze memorialization products, and caskets, reported their 3rd Quarter 2018 fiscal year results yesterday. You can read their press release here. Their report can be summed up by increased total sales – albeit not to the extent that they had predicted, but a beat…
Read MoreIt is earnings time for public companies and today we are reporting on what Service Corporation International reported in their 1st Quarter report of 2018. You can see their complete press release, including financial information, here. In essence, Tom Ryan, SCI’s CEO, made the following statements: “. . .earnings per share growth of 9 cents…
Read MoreDignity, PLC, the British based conglomerate reported revenue for the 1st quarter of 2018 the other day. The company reported revenue of US$ 135 million for the quarter as compared to revenue of US$ 132 million for the 1st quarter of 2017. That is an increase of 2.2%. The increased revenue number is…
Read MoreSecurity National Financial Corporation, the Salt Lake City company that competes in the to the consumer funeral and cemetery business reported that their corporate “after tax” earnings from operations increased 15.8% year over year from 2017 and 2016. Those earnings came on a roughly 9% system wide decrease in revenues. Pre-tax earnings were less than…
Read MoreStoneMor Partners issued a press release last week that it will not file its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017 by its due date of April 2, 2018. They are seeking a waiver to extend the date by which the Form 10-K must be filed. You can read…
Read MoreIt was announced this week that Service Corporation International and the Archdiocese of New Orleans will collaborate on a plan to build a funeral home and cemetery on land owned by the Archdiocese in New Orleans. You can read the press release from Globe News Wire here. The combination unit, which will also have mausoleum…
Read MoreCarriage Services, an American death care industry consolidator, again teased investors with some good results coupled with some items that they could improve on when they reported their end of year 2017 results last week. In a press release from the company that you can read here, Chief Executive Officer Mel Payne stated, “After eight…
Read MoreWe’ve said before that 2017 was an unusual year for StoneMor Partners, LP in that they had some key executives leave or retire and, probably partly because of that and an accounting review, they delayed their reporting to the Security and Exchange Commission. They have been working hard and on January 26, 2018, the company…
Read MoreI read an article published on Friday by Samuel Leathers and featured on the site, Seeking Alpha. The crux of the article, which you can read here, is the author’s opinion that a better way to play the “Graying of America” demographic in the stock market than senior housing and the nursing home industry is…
Read MorePark Lawn Corporation, the funeral industry consolidator out of Toronto, Canada, announced yesterday in this press release that they have obtained additional credit facilities which will poise them for further growth. The company announced a $125 million facility with the National Bank of Canada as the lead lender and participation from the Bank of Montreal…
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