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Our Reports on Stocks in the Personal Services Industry

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Image Source: Mike Mozart Structure of the Personal Services Industry The personal services industry is composed of a variety of firms, including those catering to man’s inescapable certainties: death and taxes. The funeral home/cemetery industry is charaterized by a large number of local-owned, independent operators, and pricing competition is intense. Death service firms sell fixed-price pre-need funeral contracts, which add uncertainty to operations if future costs are higher than expected. Tax service firms face price competition from independent tax preparers and CPAs, and initiatives to simplify tax-return preparations could hurt future performance. We’re neutral on the group. We’ve optimized our coverage. For related reports, please click here.

Valuentum Economic Castleâ„¢ Rating Update

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Read: Keeping the Horse Before the Cart: Valuentum’s Economic Castle™ Rating The Economic Castle Focuses on the Magnitude of Economic Value Creation The Valuentum Economic Castle™ rating is an enhancement of the competitive advantage framework (commonly known as economic moat analysis) that has become widespread and ubiquitous within the investing world. Whereas an economic moat framework evaluates a firm on the basis of the sustainability and durability of its competitive advantages, Valuentum’s Economic Castle™ rating evaluates a firm on the basis of the firm’s future economic profit spread (return on invested capital less its weighted average cost of capital). The companies with the strongest Valuentum Economic Castle™ ratings are poised to generate the most economic value for shareholders in the … Read more

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Going forward, please use the ‘Symbol’ search box to download stock and dividend reports of companies you are interested in. The ‘Symbol’ search box can be found in our website header. Image shown from above. Use the active search box in the website header above. Learn more about your membership >>  Note: We have now discontinued this list. Please use the ‘Symbol’ search box in the website header for stock and dividend reports. Please read about our Valuentum Dividend Cushion score (ratio) here. Just having access to this valuable metric alone could save your income portfolio thousands of dollars! The past meets the future as we showcase the Valuentum Dividend Cushion scores of Dividend Aristocrats in this article (click here). The dividend reports below … Read more