Service Corporation International is a funeral services company with a 33% return on equity, 13.3% upside to the analyst target, and improving price momentum in a death cross recovery setup, but carries heavy debt at 3.3x debt-to-equity and has delivered below-average earnings relative to estimates with only 2 beats in the last 4 quarters.
Thesis pillars
- High Roe Despite Debt Leverage→Stable
- Heavy Debt Load Constraint→Stable
- Analyst Upside And Positive Sentiment↑Improving
- +1 more pillar — see the Why tab for full reasoning
Service Corporation Internation (SCI) Stock Analysis
Momentum Cont setup
Consumer Cyclical · Personal Services
Sell if holding. Analyst target reached at $82.33 — A.R:R 0.2:1 is below the 1.5:1 minimum. Reward from here is too thin for a buy — the engine flags exit. Additional concerns: Leverage penalty (D/E 3.3): -1.5.
Service Corporation International operates 1,485 funeral service locations and 500 cemeteries across 44 states, eight Canadian provinces, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico — North America's largest deathcare network with an estimated 18% market share by industry revenue.... Read more
Sell if holding. Analyst target reached at $82.33 — A.R:R 0.2:1 is below the 1.5:1 minimum. Reward from here is too thin for a buy — the engine flags exit. Additional concerns: Leverage penalty (D/E 3.3): -1.5. Chart setup: Trend continuation, RSI 64, MACD bullish. Score 5.2/10, high confidence.
Passes 6/9 gates (positive momentum, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on favorable risk/reward ratio and earnings proximity 4d<=7d. Suitability: moderate.
About Service Corporation Internation
About Service Corporation Internation
Service Corporation International's network at December 31, 2025 comprised 1,485 funeral service locations and 500 cemeteries — including 312 combination locations — spanning 44 U.S. states, eight Canadian provinces, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, capturing an estimated 18% of North American deathcare industry revenue. The preneed backlog reached $17.0 billion at year-end 2025, up from $16.0 billion a year earlier. SCI employed 17,869 full-time and 7,318 part-time associates at December 31, 2025.
SCI generates revenue through at-need sales (funeral services and cemetery interment rights purchased at the time of death) and preneed sales (contracts prepaid in advance by consumers). The preneed program is supported by a field sales force of approximately 3,800 counselors operating across digital and traditional lead channels. Preneed contracts are funded through a combination of affiliated trust funds and third-party life insurance or annuity policies; the company's combined trust fund investment returns were 15.1% in 2025, 12.3% in 2024, and 16.3% in 2023. If all surety companies canceled or did not renew their bonds, SCI would be required to fund approximately $258.7 million into state-mandated trust accounts. The cemetery segment — carrying goodwill of $406.8 million at December 31, 2025 — relies more heavily on preneed sales and is therefore more sensitive to discretionary spending conditions than the funeral segment. SCI owned approximately 90% of its real estate and buildings, and 64.4% of comparable services performed in 2025 were cremation cases.
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The cremation share of comparable services rose to 64.4% in 2025 from 63.9% in 2024 and 63.1% in 2023, with average revenue per cremation below that for traditional burials. If memorialization product expansion cannot offset the revenue-per-case mix shift, the continuing upward trend in cremation may weigh on per-case revenue even as overall at-need volumes grow with the aging baby boomer cohort. The three largest states by total revenue — California, Texas, and Florida — expose a meaningful portion of the network to wildfire, hurricane, and flood risk, which could temporarily disrupt operations or increase costs in any given period.
See also: Consumer Cyclical · Personal Services
From Service Corporation Internation's most recent 10-K filing, extracted June 11, 2026.
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updated 2026-07-26Recent Developments — Service Corporation Internation
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- NEWS Service Corp. (SCI) Maintains FY26 EPS Guidance Between $4.05 an - GuruFocus — GuruFocus positive
- NEWS Service Corp. (SCI) Q1 Earnings Lag Estimates - Yahoo Finance — Yahoo Finance negative
- NEWS Service Corporation International (SCI) Releases Q1 2026 Earnings: Modest Revenue Gain, EPS Miss and Margin Compression — Quiver Quantitative negative
- NEWS Service International (NYSE:SCI) Reports Q1 CY2026 In Line With Expectations - StockStory — StockStory neutral
- NEWS Service Corp.: Q1 Earnings Snapshot - WKYC — WKYC neutral
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Sell if holding. Analyst target reached at $82.33 — A.R:R 0.2:1 is below the 1.5:1 minimum. Reward from here is too thin for a buy — the engine flags exit. Additional concerns: Leverage penalty (D/E 3.3): -1.5. Chart setup: Trend continuation, RSI 64, MACD bullish. Prior stop was $78.51. Score 5.2/10, high confidence.
Take-profit target: $83.81 (+1.8% upside). Prior stop was $78.51. Stop-loss: $78.51.
Analyst target reached - limited upside remaining; Leverage penalty (D/E 3.3): -1.5; Earnings in 4 days (event risk).
Service Corporation Internation trades at a P/E of 20.9 (forward 18.1). TrendMatrix value score: 5.9/10. Verdict: Sell.
11 analysts cover SCI with a consensus score of 4.2/5. Average price target: $96.
What does Service Corporation Internation do?Service Corporation International operates 1,485 funeral service locations and 500 cemeteries across 44 states, eight...
Service Corporation International operates 1,485 funeral service locations and 500 cemeteries across 44 states, eight Canadian provinces, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico — North America's largest deathcare network with an estimated 18% market share by industry revenue. Revenue comes from at-need and preneed sales of funeral services, cemetery property, and merchandise, backed by a preneed backlog of $17.0 billion at December 31, 2025.