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Service Corporation International provides deathcare products and services. Its funeral service and cemetery operations consist of funeral service locations, cemeteries, funeral service/cemetery combination locations, crematoria, and related businesses. The company provides various professional services relating to funerals and cremations, including the use of funeral facilities and motor vehicles, and preparation and embalming services. It also sells funeral related merchandise, including caskets, burial vaults, cremation receptacles, flowers, and other ancillary products and services at funeral service locations. The company's cemeteries provide cemetery property interment rights, including mausoleum spaces, lots, and lawn crypts, and sell cemetery related merchandise and services, including stone and bronze memorials, burial vaults, casket and cremation memorialization products, merchandise installations, and burial openings and closings. It also sells preneed funeral and cemetery products and services whereby a customer contractually agrees to the terms of certain products and services to be delivered and performed in the future. As of December 31, 2008, Service Corporation operated 1,314 funeral service locations and 369 cemeteries (including 208 combination locations) covering 43 states in the United States, 8 Canadian provinces, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Germany. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

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Key Statistics

Closing Price	11.16
Volume	706127
Volume Avg	830177
52 Week High	12.12
52 Week Low	8.37
PE	18.45
PE (group average)	40
EPS Year	0.61
EPS change Q/Q	6.67%
EPS change Q/Q Yr ago	33.33%
EPS change Q/Q next Q est	0%
EPS change Y/Y	-14.55%
REV change Q/Q	1.47%
REV change Q/Q Yr ago	9.19%
EPS next Q est	0.16
EPS next Y est	0.77
Divident Annual	0.20
Dividend Yield	1.79%