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SCI, Carriage Services and StoneMor: Credit quality will remain stable in 2023 with continued demand, cost pass-throughs even as Covid deaths decrease

Rated companies' revenue growth will revert to pre-pandemic levels and profit margins will remain stable. The three companies have different financial strategies and liquidity profiles.
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Carriage Services Inc.

Carriage Services is a provider of funeral and cemetery services and merchandise. The company operates in two business segments: funeral home operations, which provide a range of services, including consultation, the removal and preparation of remains, the sale of caskets and related funeral merchandise, the use of funeral home facilities for visitation and services and transportation services; and cemetery operations, which include a range of products and services including interment services, the rights to interment in cemetery sites (primarily grave sites, mausoleum crypts and niches) and related cemetery merchandise, such as memorials and vaults.

Service Corporation International

Service Corporation International provides deathcare products and services. The company's funeral service and cemetery operations consist of funeral service locations, cemeteries, funeral service/cemetery combination locations, crematoria, and other related businesses. Funeral service locations provide services related to funerals and cremations, including the use of funeral home facilities and motor vehicles, arranging and directing services, removal, preparation, embalming, cremations, memorialization, and catering. The company's cemeteries provide cemetery property interment rights, such as developed lots, lawn crypts, mausoleum spaces, niches, and other cremation memorialization and interment options.

StoneMor Inc.

StoneMor is a provider of funeral and cemetery products and services in the death care industry. The company's segments include: Cemetery Operations, which include sales of cemetery interment rights, merchandise and services and the performance of cemetery maintenance and other services; and Funeral Homes Operations, which provides a range of services, including family consultation, final expense insurance products, the removal and preparation of remains, provision of caskets and related funeral merchandise, the use of funeral home facilities for visitation, worship and performance of funeral services and transportation services.

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