Service Corporation International (SCI)
Consumer Discretionary · Deathcare / funeral services and cemetery operations
North America's largest funeral and cemetery operator, with 1,985 facilities offering deathcare services and preneed contracts backed by a $17 billion backlog.
What Service Corporation International does
Service Corporation International (SCI) operates the largest network of funeral service locations and cemeteries in North America, with 1,485 funeral homes and 500 cemeteries across the United States and Canada. The company provides funeral and cremation services, cemetery interment rights, and related merchandise such as caskets, urns, and memorial products. SCI generates revenue both from atneed services (sales at time of death) and preneed contracts (arrangements sold in advance), with a preneed backlog of $17.0 billion at year-end 2025. The company leverages combination locations—funeral homes co-located with cemeteries—to achieve operational synergies and cost efficiencies.
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Fundamentals
- Price$76.63 as of 2026-07-09 close
- Market cap$10.6B as of 2026-07-10
- 1-year return-6.2% as of 2026-07-09 close
- P/E19.77 as of 2026-07-10
- Net margin+12.4% as of 2026-07-10
- Gross margin+26.2% as of 2026-07-10
- ROE+33.7% as of 2026-07-10
- Debt / equity3.26 as of 2026-07-10
- Revenue growth (YoY)+2.8% as of 2026-07-10
- Revenue CAGR (3y)+1.6% SEC XBRL
- Beta0.84 as of 2026-07-10
Dividend: yield +1.9%; 5-year non-decreasing per-share dividend streak (SEC XBRL).
Key risks (from latest filing)
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Fundamentals: Finnhub, as of 2026-07-10. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-07-09.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & Finnhub, shown with their as-of date.