Service Corporation International provides deathcare products and services in the United States and Canada. The company operates through Funeral and Cemetery segments. Its funeral service and cemetery operations comprise funeral service locations, cemeteries, funeral service/cemetery combination locations, crematoria, and other businesses. The company also provides professional services relating to funerals and cremations, including the use of funeral facilities and motor vehicles; arranging and directing services; and removal, preparation, embalming, cremation, memorialization, and travel protection, as well as catering services. In addition, it offers funeral merchandise, including burial caskets and related accessories, urns and other cremation receptacles, outer burial containers, flowers, on-line and video tributes, stationery products, casket and cremation memorialization products, and other ancillary merchandise. Further, the company's cemeteries provide cemetery property interment rights, including developed lots, lawn crypts, mausoleum spaces, niches, and other cremation memorialization and interment options; and sells cemetery merchandise and services, including memorial markers and bases, outer burial containers, flowers and floral placements, graveside services, merchandise installations, and interments, as well as offers preneed cemetery merchandise and services. Service Corporation International offers its products and services under the Dignity Memorial, Dignity Planning, National Cremation Society, Advantage Funeral and Cremation Services, Funeraria del Angel, Making Everlasting Memories, Neptune Society, and Trident Society brands. As of December 31, 2017, it owned and operated 1,488 funeral service locations; and 473 cemeteries, including 281 funeral service/cemetery combination locations covering 45 states, 8 Canadian provinces, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Industry, Sector and Symbol
Stock Exchange NYSE
Industry Personal services
Sub-IndustryN/A
SectorConsumer Staples
Current SymbolNYSE:SCI
Previous Symbol
CUSIPN/A
Phone713-522-5141
Debt
Debt-to-Equity Ratio2.38
Current Ratio0.54
Quick Ratio0.49
Price-To-Earnings
Trailing P/E Ratio28.48
Forward P/E Ratio24.34
P/E Growth1.97
Sales & Book Value
Annual Sales$3.10 billion
Price / Sales2.59
Cash Flow$2.9273 per share
Price / Cash15.13
Book Value$8.23 per share
Price / Book5.38
Profitability
EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$1.55
Net Income$546.66 million
Net Margins15.76%
Return on Equity22.47%
Return on Assets2.58%
Miscellaneous
Employees23,428
Outstanding Shares180,950,000
Market Cap$8.08 billion
OptionableOptionable
