Episode 1405 • • 38:21 - 40:42
1405: No Shields, No Deals
Service Corporation International, Funeral Industry Earnings
Service Corporation International (SCI), a major funeral and cemetery provider, raised its 2021 earnings guidance due to higher-than-expected death volumes. The CEO attributed the growth to the Delta variant and "non-COVID excess deaths." The hosts suggest that financial reports from the death care industry are a more reliable metric of mortality trends than government data.