Service Corporation International
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Service Corporation International
Service Corporation International is the largest provider of funeral and cemetery services in North America. It owns and operates funeral homes, cemeteries, and cremation services, helping families plan and carry out end-of-life arrangements. Its business is built around a simple need: when someone dies, families want a place and a team to handle the funeral, burial, cremation, memorial, and related paperwork. The company sells both at-need services for immediate arrangements and pre-need contracts that let customers plan and pay ahead of time. It makes money from service fees, merchandise such as caskets and urns, burial spaces, cremation services, and cemetery upkeep. SCI also earns recurring income from pre-arranged contracts that are funded over time and later fulfilled when the service is needed. What makes SCI different is its role as a local, highly regulated provider with a large network of physical locations that are hard to replace. Families usually choose a funeral home or cemetery close to where they live, so trust, convenience, and relationships matter a lot. SCI’s scale lets it offer a broad set of services across many communities while keeping control of the whole process from planning through final arrangements.
Service Corporation International is the largest provider of funeral and cemetery services in North America. It owns and operates funeral homes, cemeteries, and cremation services, helping families plan and carry out end-of-life arrangements. Its business is built around a simple need: when someone dies, families want a place and a team to handle the funeral, burial, cremation, memorial, and related paperwork.
The company sells both at-need services for immediate arrangements and pre-need contracts that let customers plan and pay ahead of time. It makes money from service fees, merchandise such as caskets and urns, burial spaces, cremation services, and cemetery upkeep. SCI also earns recurring income from pre-arranged contracts that are funded over time and later fulfilled when the service is needed.
What makes SCI different is its role as a local, highly regulated provider with a large network of physical locations that are hard to replace. Families usually choose a funeral home or cemetery close to where they live, so trust, convenience, and relationships matter a lot. SCI’s scale lets it offer a broad set of services across many communities while keeping control of the whole process from planning through final arrangements.
EPS: SCI reported second-quarter earnings per share of $0.90, up from $0.88 a year ago, helped by stronger cemetery results and lower G&A, but partly offset by weaker funeral profitability and financing items.
Sales momentum: Comparable preneed cemetery sales production rose 8% and comparable preneed funeral sales production rose 7%, showing continued strength in the company’s sales strategy.
Cash flow: Adjusted operating cash flow came in at about $239 million, up $71 million or 42% year over year, and management raised full-year cash flow guidance.
Outlook: Management kept the $4.20 midpoint of full-year earnings guidance and narrowed the range to $4.10 to $4.30, while saying second-half 2026 earnings should grow at a double-digit rate.
Margins: Funeral margins were pressured by lower volume, higher selling compensation tied to the shift toward insurance-funded preneed sales, and a one-time urn delivery timing issue, but management expects these pressures to ease in the second half.
Capital returns: SCI returned $172 million to shareholders in the quarter through buybacks and dividends, and said it still has more than $500 million of repurchase capacity.
Balance sheet: The company ended the quarter with about $1.6 billion of liquidity and net debt to EBITDA of 3.77x, near the midpoint of its target range.
