Stewart Enterprises, (FRA:SWX) FCF Margin % : 11.15% (As of Oct. 2013)

Stewart Enterprises, Inc. was founded in 1910, and was incorporated as a Louisiana corporation in 1970 in the State of Louisiana. The Company is a provider of funeral and cemetery products and services in the death care industry in the United States. It owns and operates approximately 217 funeral homes and 141 cemeteries in 24 states within the United States and Puerto Rico. It sells cemetery property and funeral and cemetery products and services both at the time of need and on a preneed basis. The Company's funeral homes offer a complete range of funeral and cremation services and products both at the time of need and on a preneed basis. The Company's services and products include family consultation, removal and preparation of remains, the use of funeral home facilities for visitation, worship and funeral services, transportation services, flowers and caskets. Most of its funeral homes have a non-denominational chapel on the premises, which allows family visitation and religious services to take place at the same location. The Company's cemetery operations sell cemetery property and related merchandise, including lots, lawn crypts, family and community mausoleums, monuments, markers and burial vaults, and also provide burial site openings and closings and inscriptions. It also provides cremation memorialization options including columbariums, cremation niches and cremation gardens. Cemetery property and merchandise sales are made both at the time of need and on a preneed basis. The Company's funeral home and cemetery operations face competition in local markets that are served by numerous funeral home and cemetery firms. It also competes with monument dealers, casket retailers, low-cost funeral providers and crematories, and other non-traditional providers of services or products.