Park Lawn Corporation
The American stock market closed on Thursday, March 28, 2024, for the last time in the calendar of the 2024 First Quarter. If you look at the results so far for the overall market for these first 3 months you would have to say that the results of the 1st Quarter as to the…
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While I was researching this morning’s article on the most recent financial performance of Propel Funeral Partners I was made aware that the people of Seeking Alpha had written some opinion pieces on North American Death Care companies within the past month. Without any opinion or other action I present them to the…
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Back in 2017 when I served on the board of the University of Minnesota I had a hand in the hiring of new Head Football Coach P.J. Fleck. Coach Fleck is still there and has had some success coaching in the Big Ten. Outside of the improvement of our team, I have…
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Park Lawn Corporation (PLC), a publicly-held funeral home and cemetery operator reported their 2023 4th Quarter and 2023 Full-Year financial results last week. In those results, which you can see here, the company reported revenues for both the 4th Quarter and Full-Year of 2023 increasing from the comparable quarter and year. They…
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A press release dated Tuesday, February 20, 2024, announced that the Park Lawn Corporation had acquired two stand-alone funeral homes and a stand-alone cemetery in the state of Colorado. You can read the press release here. Park Lawn Corporation announced that “it has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets…
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I think it says something about a person when their death notice is the top read story of the month on Funeral Director Daily. I think it says that that person was respected, well known, appreciated, and simply a big figure in the death care business in America. That’s what happened with Funeral Director…
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We learned last week that a transaction announced in October 2023 had been closed prior to the New Year. The transaction that you can read about in this press release from Park Lawn Corporation included the sale of 72 cemeteries and 11 funeral homes, and one crematory from Park Lawn Corporation to Everystory…
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Earlier this week I mentioned in an article that I believe that 2024 could see major merger and acquisition moves in the Death Care space. First of all, I opined that there is a lot of private equity dollars sitting on the sidelines and I coupled that with the fact that I seem to…
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If you are an investor — and with IRA’s and 401K plans virtually everyone is in today’s world — the month of November 2023 gave you reason for optimism. After a couple of sluggish years of investor equity growth there now seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel with…
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Last week Park Lawn Corporation reported their 3rd Quarter 2023 financial results. Much like we found with Carriage Services, we found that Park Lawn Corporation (PLC) was able to increase total revenues but struggled to turn those increased revenues into greater Net Income for the quarter. PLC reported a quarterly revenue increase…
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