Is the business good?
How good a business is SCI?
Service Corporation International earns 12% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
12%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 2.8 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 30%
Operating margin · Personal Services median 19% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.07×
Cash conversion · 1.25× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −3.7%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 24% |
| FY2021 | 29% |
| FY2022 | 23% |
| FY2023 | 23% |
| FY2024 | 22% |
| FY2025 | 23% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 35%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 30%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 17%
- Free cash flow margin
- 18%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $3.22B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $575M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $536M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 12%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Personal Services
Ranks #2 of 6 by Smart Score