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SERVICE CORP INTERNATIONAL SCI
SERVICE CORP INTERNATIONAL (SCI) earns a Piotroski F-score of 7/9 (strong financial health), with an Altman Z″ in the distress zone. It pays a dividend yielding 1.75% (safety: safe). FY2025 revenue was $4.3B at a 12.6% net margin.
Quality score trend · recomputed for each fiscal year
Each year's score is computed from that year's filing — a rising Piotroski F or Altman Z″ means improving financial health, a fall is worth a look.
Beneish M-score: -2.53 — low (below −2.22 — no manipulation red flag) . A statistical screen for earnings manipulation, not proof — and it doesn't apply to most banks/insurers.
Analyst price target
Recent analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-31 | UBS | Buy (main) |
| 2026-05-01 | UBS | Buy (main) |
| 2026-05-01 | JP Morgan | Overweight (main) |
| 2026-04-02 | Oppenheimer | Outperform (main) |
| 2026-01-20 | JP Morgan | Overweight (init) |
| 2025-10-13 | UBS | Buy (main) |
Wall Street analyst consensus — a sentiment gauge, not our scoring.
Forward estimates · earnings calendar →
Consensus analyst estimates and scheduled dates — forward-looking, may change.
Smart money · insiders, last 12 months
Open-market insider purchases minus sells (SEC Form 4) — real buying with their own money is a bullish “smart money” signal; grants and option exercises are excluded.
How it ranks in Services · percentile among 982 companies
Percentile vs other Services companies we cover — e.g. “stronger than 90%” means only 10% score higher on that measure.
Piotroski F breakdown · 7/9 tests passed
- Positive return on assets
- Positive operating cash flow
- Rising ROA
- Cash flow exceeds net income
- Lower long-term debt
- Rising current ratio
- No share dilution
- Rising gross margin
- Rising asset turnover
Altman Z″ components · distress zone
| Component | Value |
|---|---|
| Working capital / assets | -0.018 |
| Retained earnings / assets | 0.027 |
| EBIT / assets | 0.052 |
| Equity / liabilities | 0.096 |
Sector peers · similar-size Services companies compare side by side →
| Ticker | Company | Piotroski F | Altman Z″ | P / E | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCI | SERVICE CORP INTERNATIONAL | 7/9 | 0.42 | 19.3 | +2.9% |
| HRB | H&R BLOCK INC | 7/9 | — | 7.8 | +4.2% |
| UNF | UNIFIRST CORP | 4/9 | 8.12 | 30.9 | +0.2% |
| YELP | YELP INC | 6/9 | 2.26 | 8.8 | +3.7% |
| WW | WW INTERNATIONAL, INC. | 3/9 | 7.04 | — | -11.6% |
| CSV | CARRIAGE SERVICES INC | 5/9 | 1.44 | 12 | +3.3% |
| EVI | EVI INDUSTRIES, INC. | 6/9 | 2.7 | 25.4 | +10.3% |
About SERVICE CORP INTERNATIONAL
Service Corporation International provides deathcare products and services in the United States and Canada. Its funeral service and cemetery operations comprise funeral service locations, cemeteries, funeral service/cemetery combination locations, crematoria, and other businesses. The company also provides professional services related to funerals and cremations, including the use of funeral home facilities and motor vehicles, arranging and directing services, removal, preparation, embalming, cremation, memorialization, and travel protection, as well as catering services. In addition, it offers funeral merchandise, including burial caskets and related accessories, urns and other cremation receptacles, outer burial containers, flowers, online and video tributes, stationery products, casket and cremation memorialization products, and other ancillary merchandise. Further, the company's cemeteries provide cemetery property interment rights, such as developed lots, lawn crypts, mausoleum spaces, and cremation niches; custom inventory, including private mausoleums, family estates, and exclusive cremation memorialization options; and Cemetery merchandise and services, such as memorial cemetery markers and bases, outer burial containers, flowers and floral placement, other ancillary merchandise, graveside services, merchandise installation, and interments. It offers its products and services under the Dignity Memorial, Dignity Planning, National Cremation Society, Advantage Funeral and Cremation Services, Funeraria del Angel, Making Everlasting Memories, Neptune Society, and Trident Society brand names. Service Corporation International was incorporated in 1962 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
FAQ
Is SCI financially healthy?
SERVICE CORP INTERNATIONAL's Piotroski F-score is 7/9 (8–9 is excellent, 0–3 weak), and its Altman Z″ distress score is in the distress zone.
Does SCI pay a dividend, and is it safe?
Yes. SERVICE CORP INTERNATIONAL pays a dividend yielding about 1.75% with a 33.8% payout ratio, rated “safe” for safety.
How profitable is SCI?
In FY2025, SERVICE CORP INTERNATIONAL had a net margin of 12.6% and a return on equity of 33.1%.
Is SCI overvalued or undervalued?
SERVICE CORP INTERNATIONAL trades at about 22.2× trailing earnings — near its 10-year norm (10-year range 13.1×–32.4×, median 21.0×). Stocktoria reports the data, not buy/sell advice.
What is the analyst price target for SCI?
The average Wall-Street price target for SERVICE CORP INTERNATIONAL is $100.33, about 18.9% above the recent price, from 6 analysts (consensus: strong buy).
Is SCI a good stock to buy?
Stocktoria doesn't give buy or sell advice, but here is the data on SERVICE CORP INTERNATIONAL: a Piotroski F-score of 7/9, an Altman Z″ in the distress zone, a P/E of about 19.3×, a dividend yield of 1.75%. Weigh these quality and valuation signals against your own goals.
Computed from company filings · US · as of 2025-12-31. Facts plus Stocktoria's own computed scores — not investment advice.