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As reported last week on Funeral Director Daily, Carriage Services has hired William Goetz as its new Chief Operating Officer. Late last week we learned that Goetz has came out of the chute by showing confidence in the company the he will lead. It was reported in this article that on Wednesday, December 11, 2019,…
Read MoreIf you follow Wall Street and the American stock market you will know that we are in the period of the summer where public companies start to report their earnings as of June 30. For most of the companies who operate on a calendar year this is their 2nd Quarter results and gives investors a…
Read MoreFor those of you who follow the public companies in the death care industry we at Funeral Director Daily have initiated coverage of what we call the Death Care Index (DCI) for the last couple of years to help you get a context of how our industry is comparing to the market as a whole. …
Read MoreI just saw this article over the weekend and thought I would send it out. It pertains to the stock of Australian death care leader InvoCare being shorted by many investors. Being “shorted” means, in basic terms, that many investors believe that the share price will go lower. I thought it interesting in light of…
Read MoreEarlier this week Service Corporation International posted their 2nd Quarter results, which you can see in a company press release here, and we told you that we would analyze them and report our impressions. There is nothing that surprises us with the SCI results, more so, they reinforce what we believe is the direction of…
Read MoreLast week cemetery and funeral home consolidator StoneMor Partners issued press releases regarding their company. In essence the releases shared the following information: Release of Preliminary Unaudited 2017 Full Year Financials The appointment of a new CEO for the company, Mr. Joe Redling The establishment of a committee to look into the possibility of changing…
Read MoreI’ve always been intrigued by the stock market. I can remember over 50 years ago talking to my dad about what he thought was the end-all when looking at companies to potentially invest in. For him it was the P/E ratio. Dad always wanted the stock to have a P/E ratio of 15 or less…
Read MoreDeath care conglomerate Matthews International, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, posted their 2nd quarter earnings report of Fiscal Year 2018 last week. Here’s what President and CEO Joseph C. Bartolacci said of the report, “The company’s results for the fiscal 2018 second quarter were in line with our internal expectation and we are on track to…
Read MoreI get a lot of feedback on Funeral Director Daily and I understand people follow the site for many reasons. One of the most common things I hear is that readers enjoy updates on what the public companies in the death care industry are doing. So, I’ve decided that when I find an article…
Read MoreDeath care stocks, StoneMor Partners and Carriage Services, both components of the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI), had postive movements last Friday which lifted their companies stock price and market capitalization. Carriage Services reported Year End earnings for 2017 last week and we at Funeral Director Daily commented that the company “keeps chugging…
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