SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL
At today's price, SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL (SCI) is priced for -3.2% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
- The counterintuitive read: at about 16x company-wide operating income the price sits below what even a 5%-a-year decline in operating profit would warrant, yet the business is growing. The market is pricing in contraction at the largest, highest-margin deathcare operator. - Return on equity is about 33.8% on a 30.1% operating margin, with a roughly $16.8 billion preneed revenue backlog that is not on the balance sheet. The franchise economics are far better than the multiple implies. - The off
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538 institutional managers reported holding SCI in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 91% of the company; the top 10 hold 51%. 60 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, Baillie Gifford, among others. On the short side, 7.0M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 5% of shares outstanding (3.1 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
SCI has cut its share count 17.5% over the past five years, spending $2.43B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting), raised 12 years straight; the current rate is $1.30 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $490.93M in dividends and $1.15B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at SCI over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 18 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
SCI's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-03 | -3.9% | -15.5% |
| 2023-11-03 | +11.7% | +14.4% |
| 2024-02-14 | +3.7% | -2.9% |
| 2024-05-03 | -2.9% | +3.1% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
SCI's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-12 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-05-08 (items 5.03, 9.01); 2026-05-08 (items 5.07); 2026-05-06 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-29 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 28, 2026
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