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Service Corp. International (SCI) – Don’t Be So Quick to Call it Dead

Service Corp. International (NYSE: SCI) is 11.34% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $52.89 and a high of $81.32 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The SCI stock was last observed hovering at around $76.46 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.25%.

Currently trading at $76.21, the stock is 0.80% and -1.56% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.06 million and changing -0.33% at the moment leaves the stock 4.18% off its SMA200. SCI registered 40.92% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 6.74%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $77.421 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $73.1499.

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The stock witnessed a -2.69% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 1.99%, and is -0.72% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 1.62% over the week and 1.73% over the month.

Service Corp. International (SCI) has around 17612 employees, a market worth around $11.00B and $4.14B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 22.26 and Fwd P/E is 19.39. Profit margin for the company is 12.32%. Distance from 52-week low is 44.09% and -6.28% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (8.19%).

The EPS is expected to grow by 1.66% this year

704.0 institutions hold shares in Service Corp. International (SCI), with institutional investors hold 93.89% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 146.32M, and float is at 140.23M with Short Float at 5.77%. Institutions hold 91.15% of the Float.

The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 14.49 million shares valued at $1.03 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 9.9087 of the SCI Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BAILLIE GIFFORD & CO with 13.0 million shares valued at $924.64 million to account for 8.8875 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are BLACKROCK INC. which holds 12.83 million shares representing 8.7708 and valued at over $912.5 million, while SELECT EQUITY GROUP, L.P. holds 4.9497 of the shares totaling 7.24 million with a market value of $514.97 million.

Service Corp. International (SCI) Insider Activity

The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Tidwell Steven A, the company’s Sr.V.P. Sales & Marketing. SEC filings show that Tidwell Steven A sold 55,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Sep 13 ’24 at a price of $79.97 per share for a total of $4.4 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 54354.0 shares.

Still, SEC filings show that on Sep 05 ’24, COELHO TONY (Director) disposed off 4,750 shares at an average price of $78.17 for $0.37 million. The insider now directly holds 55,879 shares of Service Corp. International (SCI).

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