funeral home 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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Seeking Alpha writer says “SCI provides a buying opportunity”

By Funeral Director Daily / December 13, 2023 /

  This article from Seeking Alpha suggests that the largest funeral home and cemetery operator in North America, Service Corporation International (SCI) is a buying opportunity for investors.  To that end, the article makes these points: “Historically, SCI has delivered very strong financial performance and shareholder returns.” “. . .growth has been fueled by a…

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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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Death Care Index drops, now in negative position for the year

By Funeral Director Daily / October 9, 2023 /
WallStreet

  The 3rd Quarter of 2023 ended with the end of September and we thought it would be a good time to take a look at how the public companies in Death Care have held up over the course of the past quarter and past nine months.  From our point of view it looks like…

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Recent Death Care Index (DCI) rise reflects cautionary growth of the profession

By Funeral Director Daily / August 28, 2023 /

    We’ve just passed the time period where the companies that comprise the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) have publicly shared their results for the April thru June 2023 time period.  The five companies that comprise the index include Matthews International, Security National Financial Corporation, Carriage Services, Park Lawn Corporation, and Service…

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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 Index takes step backwards in 2022

By Funeral Director Daily / January 3, 2023 /

  It will come as no surprise to any of you who pay attention to the investments in your 401k or IRA accounts, but the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) took a step backwards in monetary value during the calendar year 2022.  The DCI now measures five companies with a business component in…

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Death Care Index mirrors NASDAQ on the year

By Funeral Director Daily / November 28, 2022 /
WallStreet

As we move into the final month of the calendar year it seems like no one has the financial markets figured out.  In a year of rising inflation and rising interest rates, raised with the intention of curbing the inflation, the stock market indices have looked confused as to whether the worst is past or…

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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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Seeking Alpha opines on Park Lawn Corporation

By Funeral Director Daily / June 15, 2022 /

Last Friday when Funeral Director Daily published an article entitled “Is it time to buy funeral home stocks” unknown to us Seeking Alpha author Mat Litalien was publishing an article about Park Lawn Corporation.  It was entitled “Death and Taxes” and gives a synopsis of Park Lawn Corporation and he concludes his article by saying…

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