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Is defensive Dignity too cheap?

08/02/2019 · Dignity (DTY) 

Investment Ideas UK

Pallbearers carrying a coffin into a car

The threat of rising competition and a regulatory enquiry has taken the shine off Dignity's defensiveness. But although we agree that a correction was overdue given the group’s historically high valuation and rising pressures, we now think the sell-off has now been overdone.


No-one has ever said “good thank you” in response to the question “how was the funeral” – burials are not a time for positive adjectives. But I recently went to a particularly bleak crematorium. It was cold, dark and smelt strongly of cats. It was owned by Dignity (LON: DTY).

A rise in low quality crematoria, so obviously lacking investment, is why the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) recently launched an investigation into the UK’s…

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