funeral public companies

Security National Financial Reports Quarterly Results

By Funeral Director Daily / August 16, 2018 /

As we come to the end of the earnings reporting period for the public death care companies we give you the quarterly report for Security National Financial Corporation.  Security National is the Utah based public company that operates in three segments — insurance, cemeteries and funerals, and mortgages.  Funeral Director Daily is most focused on…

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Assurant Reports Higher Preneed Profits

By Funeral Director Daily / August 13, 2018 /

Assurant reported their 2nd Quarter results last week.  You can read their report here. The worldwide conglomerate operating in the insurance and warranty business has one of its three business segments that operates in what they call “Global Preneed”.  That is the part of the company that we at Funeral Director Daily like to review.…

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Carriage Services adds two locations in Mid-Atlantic Area

By Funeral Director Daily / July 17, 2018 /

Last week Carriage Services, a funeral service public company based in Houston, Texas, announced that they had acquired two funeral homes in the State of Virginia.  You can read the press release here. The release announces the acquisition of the Covenant Funeral Homes in Fredericksburg and Stafford, Virginia.  The release goes on to say that…

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Seeking Alpha article on SCI

By Funeral Director Daily / April 17, 2018 /

Funeral Director Daily:  As we do from time to time, I have included an article that was put out yesterday by Kenny Robinson of Seeking Alpha on Service Corporation International.  The article, that you can read here, is an in-depth investment piece that I put out with no opinion other than to say it is…

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SCI Presents at Raymond James Investor Conference

By Funeral Director Daily / March 8, 2018 /

  Death care industry company Service Corporation International recently presented at the Raymond James 39th Annual Institutional Investors Conference.  I’ve found a  slide deck about their company on Seeking Alpha that you can see here.  It was part of their power point presentation to institutional investors and is an interesting synopsis of the company as…

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StoneMor Shakes up Executive Suites

By Funeral Director Daily / March 5, 2018 /

On Friday StoneMor Partners issued a press release that you can read here.  In it they announced that current CEO Paul Grady would be leaving and would be replaced by Leo Pound, who has been a director of StoneMor since 2014 and was previously their acting Chief Operating Officer.  According to the release, Pound is…

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Security National Liquidates Apartment Complex

By Funeral Director Daily / February 28, 2018 /

Security National Life Insurance Company, a stock featured in the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI), announced in a press release yesterday that they have sold the Dry Creek Apartments, a 282 unit multifamily complex in Sandy, Utah.  You can read the release here. The company is involved in three business segments that really…

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Service Corporation Reports 4th Quarter and Year End

By Funeral Director Daily / February 15, 2018 /

Service Corporation International of Houston, Texas, the nation’s largest provider of deathcare services reported 4th Quarter and Year End 2017 results on Tuesday, February 13.  You can see the financials and read the commentary here. In a statement, Chief Executive Officer Tom Ryan commented, “We delivered a solid quarter as we close out 2017.  .…

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