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Carriage Services announces record 3rd Quarter Results, comments on acquisition environment

By Funeral Director Daily / November 2, 2021 /

Funeral home and cemetery consolidator Carriage Services reported on the financial results of their 3rd Quarter for 2021 and in doing so reported record 3rd Quarter revenue for a quarter of $95.0 million.  That is 12.6% higher than the $84.3 million of revenue recorded in the 3rd Quarter of 2020. Here’s what is said in…

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SCI’s 3Q Report continues solid run

By Funeral Director Daily / October 29, 2021 /

Service Corporation International (SCI), the largest funeral home and cemetery operator in North America reported their 3rd Quarter 2021 financial results on Wednesday.  You can see them for yourself here. Here’s some of what Tom Ryan, Service Corporation’s CEO said of the 3Q 2021 results, “Today we are reporting another strong quarter with earnings .…

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Zacks Research previews SCI earnings report

By Funeral Director Daily / October 26, 2021 /

We found this report, dated October 21, interesting from Zacks Equity Research.  Here’s an interesting couple of lines from the report. . .”SCI is likely to display year-over-year declines in the top and bottom lines, when it reports third-quarter 2021 numbers on Oct 27. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenues is pegged at $800 million,…

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Retail death care stocks lead the run-up

By Funeral Director Daily / October 25, 2021 /

On Friday the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) set a new record high by closing at 35,677.  On January 1, 2021, the DJIA stood at 30,606 so that high on Friday indicates a 16.6% increase year to date for 2021.  That’s pretty impressive. . . . and the NASDAQ closed Friday up 19.1% year to…

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Seeking Alpha adds commentary on SCI as an investment

By Funeral Director Daily / October 13, 2021 /

Recently we found this article written by Daniel Jones for Seeking Alpha.  In the article he brings out the pros and cons of an investment in Service Corporation International. One question that he asked in the article when considering that Service Corporation International has greatly increased its gross revenues is this, “On its face, all…

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The opportunity for the “Not so Big” funeral business across North America

By Funeral Director Daily / October 11, 2021 /

We commented on an article about what an author called “Big Funeral” in last Friday’s edition of Funeral Director Daily.  While I told you I didn’t agree with much of the article from Wired, I thought it was a pretty good read and, at least, one author’s not so great opinion of the death care…

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“Big Funeral” and some thoughts on “Universal Death Care”

By Funeral Director Daily / October 8, 2021 /

The funeral profession has long had its critics.  Those of us in the profession have to understand that and know that from time to time we are going to be broadsided by those critics’ calls for change. Recently this article entitled “How ‘Big Funeral’ made the afterlife so expensive” was published in Wired.  It’s a…

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Will Axar take StoneMor private?

By Funeral Director Daily / October 1, 2021 /

As you can see from this Yahoo Finance article, Axar Capital Management has sent StoneMor Inc. a letter expressing “an interest in pursuing discussions concerning strategic alternatives that may be beneficial to the Company and its various stakeholders.”  As you may know, and according to E-Trade, Axar Capital Management currently owns 88.6 million of the 118…

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Funeral Director Daily top read stories in the last month

By Funeral Director Daily / August 19, 2021 /

It is already past the 15th of the month when we highlight and replay for you our top read stories of the past 30 days.  While we hope you read all of Funeral Director Daily’s blog posts we also realize you are busy and certainly will miss some days.  Here are our most read posts…

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Carriage Services reports 2Q. . Cemetery business is the highlite

By Funeral Director Daily / August 3, 2021 /

It’s quarterly reporting time in the public business realm and the companies in the death care sector are no different than others with that requirement.  Last week we reported Service Corporation International’s (SCI) results and today we bring you highlights of Houston, Texas based operator, Carriage Services. You can access the Carriage Services 2nd Quarter…

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