Service Corporation InternationalSCI
NYSE•Consumer Cyclical•Personal Services
Service Corporation International provides deathcare products and services in the United States and Canada. 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 related to funerals and cremations, including the use of funeral home facilities and motor vehicles, arranging and directing services, 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, online and video tributes, stationery products, casket and cremation memorialization products, and other ancillary merchandise. Further, the company's cemeteries provide cemetery property interment rights, such as developed lots, lawn crypts, mausoleum spaces, and cremation niches; custom inventory, including private mausoleums, family estates, and exclusive cremation memorialization options; and Cemetery merchandise and services, such as memorial cemetery markers and bases, outer burial containers, flowers and floral placement, other ancillary merchandise, graveside services, merchandise installation, and interments. It 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 brand names. Service Corporation International was incorporated in 1962 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Service Corporation Internation (SCI) reported trailing twelve months revenue of $4.33B as of March 2026, a 2.8% increase year-over-year. Quarterly revenue reached $1.10B, reflecting continued top-line momentum.
Service Corporation Internation generated $535.54M in TTM net income, with quarterly EBITDA of $300.50M. The operating margin contracted from 23.4% to 22.2%, suggesting rising cost pressures or pricing headwinds.
The spread between operating margin (22.2%) and net margin (12.4%) indicates moderate non-operating costs. Net margin has narrowed from 13.3% a year ago, reflecting increased costs or interest expense.
SCI trades at a P/E of 21.2x (in line with broad market averages) and a P/S of 2.6x. The price-to-book ratio of 7.2x indicates a significant premium over book value.
The company generated $253.90M in free cash flow over the trailing twelve months, a 9.0% increase year-over-year, indicating cash generation ability. The balance sheet shows $18.57B in total assets with $5.11B in long-term debt against $1.58B in stockholders equity for a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.2, a relatively leveraged position. Data based on the most recent quarterly reports.
Competitive analysis based on 21 quarters of fundamental data
Operating margins are stable at ~22.4%, suggesting durable pricing power and cost discipline.
Consistently high ROE averaging 32.8% suggests a durable competitive advantage and efficient capital allocation.
8 of the last 8 quarters generated positive FCF. The company generally funds itself but has occasional cash consumption quarters.
Revenue shows resilience with 7 of 7 quarters posting growth — demand is generally stable but has seen some soft patches.
Data-driven red flags and warnings across 21 quarters
Margins are stable or improving at ~22.4% — no sign of cost or pricing stress.
FCF covers net income by 1.2x on average — earnings are well-supported by cash generation.
D/E ratio is 3.2 — dangerously high. The company is heavily leveraged and vulnerable to rising rates or cash flow dips.
Revenue is stable or growing over recent quarters — demand appears durable.
Free cash flow is consistently positive — the business self-funds without external capital reliance.
Shares decreased 4.3% — net buybacks are reducing shares outstanding and boosting per-share value.
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