funeral stocks

SCI and other DCI stocks buck the Year-to-Date market trend

By Funeral Director Daily / April 18, 2022 /

The markets were closed on Good Friday and we thought that might be an appropriate time to take a look at how the stocks that comprise the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) have been doing in relation to each other and in relation to the stock market as a whole since the beginning…

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SCI as an investment

By Funeral Director Daily / April 6, 2022 /

Last week Seeking Alpha published a fact and opinion article on Service Corporation International (SCI) entitled “Service Corporation International:  An under the radar wealth generator”.  The article was one of the most in-depth pieces I have seen on SCI, its operations, and its potential as an investment. You can access the article here. From my…

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Death Care stocks not immune to recent downturn

By Funeral Director Daily / January 24, 2022 /

If you had any money in the stock market during 2021 it would have been hard not to grow your investment cache.  During the 2021 calendar year the three indices most commonly referred to as a bellwether of the markets, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Nasdaq, and the S & P 500 were up…

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Death Care Index rises 14.7% year to date

By Funeral Director Daily / July 6, 2021 /

As we move into the seventh month of the calendar year, we felt that it was a good time for a check up on the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI).  The DCI is a composite dollar amount of owning one share of stock in each of the seven public companies in the United…

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Checking in on the DCI. . . up over 10% year to date

By Funeral Director Daily / March 12, 2021 /

The last time we checked in on Funeral Director Daily’s proprietary Death Care Index (DCI) was in this article from January 4, 2021.  At that time we noted that the stock index of companies in the death care realm had a total return (capital appreciation plus dividend) of about 6.85% for the calendar year of…

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DCI rebounds. . . .Total return almost 7%

By Funeral Director Daily / January 4, 2021 /

I was very fortunate as a youngster because I was schooled on investments and the market by my father.  Giving me, what is now termed “financial literacy”, is one of the greatest gifts I have ever received.  As a matter of fact, as a board member of a Big Ten institution, I have pushed our…

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Funeral Nation TV, stock market thoughts, and advertising

By Funeral Director Daily / December 18, 2020 /

As we head into the week before the Christmas Holiday I reprise my role as a guest of hosts Jeff Harbeson and Ryan Thogmartin on their Funeral Nation program. . . this time Episode #210.  The hosts have me back quarterly to discuss death care companies in the public stock markets. . . where I…

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DCI indicates “Death Care” stocks left behind. . . appearance on Funeral Nation

By Funeral Director Daily / August 31, 2020 /

With today being the last day in the business calendar of the first eight months of the year and April to June reports all in, I thought it might be a good time to find out where the Death Care Index is sitting in relation to the stock market in general.  The Death Care Index,…

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Investors still reluctant with death care stocks

By Funeral Director Daily / June 22, 2020 /

I happened to see that at the close of the markets Friday that funeral home and cemetery operator and consolidator Park Lawn Corporation’s stock closed down over 9% from the previous day.  I looked for news on the company but could not find anything in the public world that would cause a precipitous drop in…

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Public funeral home companies and 2019

By Funeral Director Daily / January 13, 2020 /

I will preface this article to say that it is being written on Friday, January 10.  Because of that all prices quoted come from the end of the day on Thursday, January 9.  I will also say I am not a stock security analyst and all opinions are mine alone.  Finally, I do own stock…

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