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DEBT AND FINANCING ARRANGEMENTS | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2025
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
DEBT AND FINANCING ARRANGEMENTS | DEBT AND FINANCING ARRANGEMENTS: Long-term debt at September 30, 2025 and 2024 consisted of the following:
| 2025 |  | 2024
Revolving credit facilities | $ | 385,007 |  |  | $ | 444,011 |
2027 Senior Secured Notes | 296,110 |  |  | 294,751 |
Other borrowings | 7,151 |  |  | 15,602 |
Finance lease obligations | 22,564 |  |  | 22,103 |
Total debt | 710,832 |  |  | 776,467 |
Less current maturities | (7,230) |  |  | (6,853) |
Long-term debt | $ | 703,602 |  |  | $ | 769,614 |
The Company has a domestic credit facility with a syndicate of financial institutions that was amended and restated in September 2024. The amended and restated loan agreement includes a $750,000 senior secured revolving credit facility, which matures in January 2029, subject to the terms and conditions of the amended facility. The obligations under the domestic credit facility are secured by a first priority lien on substantially all of the assets of the Company and certain of its domestic subsidiaries. A portion of the revolving credit facility (not to exceed $350,000) can be drawn in foreign currencies. Borrowings under the revolving credit facility bear interest at Secured Overnight Financing Rate ("SOFR"), plus a 0.10% per annum rate spread adjustment, plus a factor ranging from 1.00% to 2.00% (1.25% at September 30, 2025) based on the Company's leverage ratio. The leverage ratio is defined as total indebtedness divided by EBITDA (earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization) as defined within the domestic credit facility agreement. The Company is required to pay an annual commitment fee ranging from 0.15% to 0.30% (based on the Company's leverage ratio) of the unused portion of the revolving credit facility. The Company incurred debt issuance costs in connection with the amended and restated agreement. Unamortized costs were $3,918 and $4,961 at September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The domestic credit facility requires the Company to maintain certain leverage and interest coverage ratios. A portion of the facility (not to exceed $75,000) is available for the issuance of trade and standby letters of credit. Outstanding U.S. dollar denominated borrowings on the revolving credit facility at September 30, 2025 and 2024 were $384,233 and $410,527, respectively. There were no outstanding Euro denominated borrowings on the revolving credit facility at September 30, 2025. Outstanding Euro denominated borrowings on the revolving credit facility at September 30, 2024 were €30.0 million ($33,485). The weighted-average interest rate on outstanding borrowings for the domestic credit facility (including the effects of interest rate swaps and Euro denominated borrowings) at September 30, 2025 and 2024 was 3.99% and 4.59%, respectively. The Company has $300,000 aggregate principal amount of 8.625% senior secured second lien notes due October 1, 2027 (the "2027 Senior Secured Notes"). The 2027 Senior Secured Notes bear interest at a rate of 8.625% per annum with interest payable semi-annually in arrears on April 1 and October 1 of each year. The Company's obligations under the 2027 Senior Secured Notes are secured by a second priority lien on substantially all of the assets of the Company and certain of its domestic subsidiaries. The Company is subject to certain covenants and other restrictions including cross default provisions in connection with the 2027 Senior Secured Notes. The Company incurred direct financing fees and costs in connection with the 2027 Senior Secured Notes. Unamortized costs related to the Company’s notes were $3,890 and $5,249 at September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The Company and certain of its domestic subsidiaries sell, on a continuous basis without recourse, their trade receivables to Matthews Receivables Funding Corporation, LLC (“Matthews RFC”), a wholly-owned bankruptcy-remote subsidiary of the Company. Matthews RFC has a receivables purchase agreement (“RPA”) to sell up to $75,000 of receivables to certain purchasers (the “Purchasers”) on a recurring basis in exchange for cash (referred to as “capital” within the RPA) equal to the gross receivables transferred. The parties intend that the transfers of receivables to the Purchasers constitute purchases and sales of receivables. Matthews RFC has guaranteed to each Purchaser the prompt payment of sold receivables, and has granted a security interest in its assets for the benefit of the Purchasers. Under the RPA, each Purchaser’s share of capital accrues yield at a floating rate plus an applicable margin. The Company is the master servicer under the RPA, and is responsible for administering and collecting receivables. The RPA matures in April 2027. The proceeds of the RPA are classified as operating activities in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. Cash received from collections of sold receivables may be used to fund additional purchases of receivables on a revolving basis, or to reduce all or any portion of the outstanding capital of the Purchasers. The fair value of the sold receivables approximated book value due to their credit quality and short-term nature, and as a result, no gain or loss on sale of receivables was recorded. As of September 30, 2025 and 2024, the amount sold to the Purchasers was $65,600 and $96,300, respectively, which was derecognized from the Consolidated Balance Sheets. As collateral against sold receivables, Matthews RFC maintains a certain level of unsold receivables, which was $63,720 and $58,183 as of September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The following table sets forth a summary of receivables sold as part of the RPA:
|  | For the Year Ended September 30,
|  | 2025 |  | 2024
Gross receivables sold |  | $ | 281,988 |  |  | $ | 379,094 |
Cash collections reinvested |  | (312,688) |  |  | (384,594) |
Net cash (reinvested) received |  | $ | (30,700) |  |  | $ | (5,500) |
The Company, through its U.K. subsidiary, previously participated in a non-recourse factoring arrangement. In connection with this arrangement, the Company periodically sold trade receivables to a third-party purchaser in exchange for cash. These transfers of financial assets were recorded at the time the Company surrendered control of the assets. As these transfers qualified as true sales under the applicable accounting guidance, the receivables were de-recognized from the Company's Consolidated Balance Sheets upon transfer. As a result of the sale of the Company's interest in the SGK Business, this arrangement no longer exists for the Company at September 30, 2025. The principal amount of receivables sold under this arrangement was $45,813 and $70,236 during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The discounts on the trade receivables sold are included within administrative expense in the Consolidated Statements of Income. The proceeds from the sale of receivables are classified as operating activities in the Company's Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. As of September 30, 2024, the amount of factored receivables that remained outstanding was $15,665. See Note 23, "Acquisitions and Divestitures" for further information with respect to the sale of the Company's interest in the SGK Business. The Company facilitates a voluntary supply chain finance program (the "Program") to provide certain suppliers with the opportunity to sell receivables due from the Company to participating financial institutions at the sole discretion of both the suppliers and the financial institutions. The Company is not a party to the agreements between the suppliers and the financial institutions and has no economic interest in a supplier's decision to sell a receivable. The range of payment terms negotiated with a supplier is consistent, irrespective of whether a supplier participates in the Program. All outstanding payments owed under the Program are recorded within trade accounts payable in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. The Company accounts for all payments made under the Program as a reduction to operating cash flows in changes in working capital within the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. The amounts owed to a participating financial institution under the Program and included in trade accounts payable were $6,136 and $3,014 at September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The following table summarizes the Program activities for the year ended September 30, 2025.
| For the Year Ended
| September 30, 2025 |  |
Outstanding Program payables at September 30, 2024 | $ | 3,014 |  |  |
Obligations added | 43,579 |  |  |
Obligations settled | (40,457) |  |  |
Outstanding Program payables at September 30, 2025 | $ | 6,136 |  |  |
The Company, through certain of its European subsidiaries, has a credit facility with a European bank, which is guaranteed by Matthews. The maximum amount of borrowings available under this facility is €6.0 million ($7,043). The facility also provides €14.0 million ($16,433) for bank guarantees. This facility has no stated maturity date and is available until terminated. Outstanding borrowings under the credit facility totaled at €659,000 ($774) at September 30, 2025. There were no outstanding borrowings under the credit facility at September 30, 2024. The weighted-average interest rate on outstanding borrowings under this facility was 4.16% at September 30, 2025. Other borrowings totaled $7,151 and $15,602 at September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The weighted-average interest rate on these borrowings was 2.40% and 2.66% at September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. As of September 30, 2025 and 2024, the fair value of the Company's long-term debt, including current maturities, which is classified as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy, approximated the carrying value included in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. The Company was in compliance with all of its debt covenants as of September 30, 2025. On March 11, 2025, in connection with the filing of an automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 pursuant to which the Company re-registered 3,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock, the Company entered into an Equity Distribution Agreement for an At-The-Market equity offering program ("ATM Program") where the Company may issue and sell, from time to time, up to 1,250,000 shares of its Class A Common Stock under the shelf registration. The Company did not sell any shares of its Class A Common Stock under its ATM program during fiscal 2025. As of September 30, 2025, the Company had 1,250,000 shares remaining for sale under the ATM Program. The Company has no near-term intention to utilize the ATM Program. Aggregate maturities by fiscal year of long-term debt, including other borrowings, is as follows:
2026 | $ | — |  |
2027 | 3,004 |  |
2028 | 296,110 |  |
2029 | 384,233 |  |
2030 | — |  |
Thereafter | 4,921 |  |
| 688,268 |  |
Finance lease obligations | 22,564 |  | (a)
| $ | 710,832 |  |
(a) Aggregate maturities of finance lease obligations can be found in Note 11, "Leases."

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