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Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2025
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] |
BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES | BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES The Company Carriage Services, Inc. (“Carriage,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is a leading provider of funeral and cemetery services and merchandise in the United States. Our operations are reported in two business segments: Funeral Home Operations, which currently accounts for approximately 70% of our total revenue and Cemetery Operations, which currently accounts for approximately 30% of our total revenue. At March 31, 2025, we operated 160 funeral homes in 25 states and 28 cemeteries in 10 states. Our funeral home operations are principally service businesses that generate revenue from sales of burial and cremation services and related merchandise, such as caskets and urns. Funeral services include consultation, the removal and preparation of remains, the sale of caskets and related funeral merchandise, the use of funeral home facilities for visitation and memorial services and transportation services. We provide funeral services and products on both an “atneed” (time of death) and “preneed” (planned prior to death) basis. Our cemetery operations generate revenue primarily through sales of cemetery interment rights (primarily grave sites, lawn crypts, mausoleum spaces and niches), related cemetery merchandise (such as memorial markers, outer burial containers and monuments) and services (interments, inurnments and installation of cemetery merchandise). We provide cemetery services and products on both an atneed and preneed basis. Principles of Consolidation and Interim Condensed Disclosures Our unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements include the Company and its subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated. Our interim Consolidated Financial Statements are unaudited, but include all adjustments, which consist of normal, recurring accruals, that are necessary for a fair presentation of our financial position and results of operations as of and for the interim periods presented. There have been no material changes in our accounting policies previously disclosed in Part II, Item 8 “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” in Note 1 in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024. In addition, our unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in a manner consistent with the accounting principles described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 unless otherwise disclosed herein, and should be read in conjunction therewith. Use of Estimates The preparation of our Consolidated Financial Statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue and expenses. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our critical estimates and judgments, which include those related to the impairment of goodwill and the fair value measurements used in business combinations. These policies are considered critical because they may result in fluctuations in our reported results from period to period due to the significant judgments, estimates and assumptions about complex and inherently uncertain matters and because the use of different judgments, assumptions or estimates could have a material impact on our financial condition or results of operations. Actual results may differ from these estimates and such estimates may change if the underlying conditions or assumptions change. Historical performance should not be viewed as indicative of future performance because there can be no assurance the margins, operating income and net earnings, as a percentage of revenue, will be consistent from period to period. Cash and Cash Equivalents We consider all highly liquid investments purchased with an original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents. Inventory Inventory consists primarily of caskets, outer burial containers and cemetery monuments and markers and is recorded at the lower of its cost basis or net realizable value. Inventory is relieved using specific identification in fulfillment of performance obligations on our contracts. Held for Sale At March 31, 2025, the assets and liabilities of non-core funeral home and cemetery businesses expected to be sold within the next twelve months, which have met the criteria for such classification, have been classified as held for sale. The table below presents the carrying amounts of the assets and liabilities included as part of the expected sale (in thousands):
| March 31, 2025 |  | December 31, 2024 |
Accounts receivable, net | $ | 36 |  |  | $ | 833 |  |
Inventories | 52 |  |  | 302 |  |
Prepaid and other current assets | 3 |  |  | — |  |
Current assets held for sale | $ | 91 |  |  | $ | 1,135 |  |
Preneed cemetery trust investments | $ | 1,059 |  |  | $ | 4,876 |  |
Preneed funeral trust investments | 405 |  |  | 2,197 |  |
Preneed cemetery receivables, net | 3 |  |  | 1,671 |  |
Receivables from funeral preneed trusts, net | 27 |  |  | — |  |
Property, plant and equipment, net | 1,554 |  |  | 4,898 |  |
Cemetery property, net | 128 |  |  | 3,362 |  |
Intangible and other non-current assets, net | 223 |  |  | 215 |  |
Operating lease right-of-use assets | 74 |  |  | — |  |
Cemetery perpetual care trust investments | 322 |  |  | 2,234 |  |
Non-current assets held for sale | $ | 3,795 |  |  | $ | 19,453 |  |
Current portion of operating lease obligations | $ | 22 |  |  | $ | — |  |
Accounts payable | 18 |  |  | 94 |  |
Accrued and other liabilities | 114 |  |  | 146 |  |
Current liabilities held for sale | $ | 154 |  |  | $ | 240 |  |
Obligations under operating leases, net of current portion | $ | 53 |  |  | $ | — |  |
Deferred preneed cemetery revenue | 97 |  |  | 3,517 |  |
Deferred preneed funeral revenue | 27 |  |  | 1,018 |  |
Deferred preneed cemetery receipts held in trust | 1,059 |  |  | 4,876 |  |
Deferred preneed funeral receipts held in trust | 405 |  |  | 2,197 |  |
Care trusts’ corpus | 322 |  |  | 2,234 |  |
Long-term liabilities held for sale | $ | 1,963 |  |  | $ | 13,842 |  |
Property, Plant and Equipment Property, plant and equipment is comprised of the following (in thousands):
| March 31, 2025 |  | December 31, 2024 |
Land | $ | 85,462 |  |  | $ | 86,609 |  |
Buildings and improvements | 264,733 |  |  | 265,231 |  |
Furniture, equipment and vehicles | 70,863 |  |  | 72,052 |  |
Property, plant and equipment, at cost | 421,058 |  |  | 423,892 |  |
Less: accumulated depreciation | (146,082) |  |  | (145,990) |  |
Property, plant and equipment, net | $ | 274,976 |  |  | $ | 277,902 |  |
Less: Held for sale | (1,554) |  |  | (4,898) |  |
Property, plant and equipment, net | $ | 273,422 |  |  | $ | 273,004 |  |
During the three months ended March 31, 2025, we sold two funeral homes and three cemeteries that had a carrying value of property, plant and equipment of $3.4 million, which was included in the gain on sale and recorded in Net (gain) loss on divestitures, disposals and impairment charges on our Consolidated Statements of Operations, more fully described in Note 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements. Additionally, during the three months ended March 31, 2025, we sold real property for $2.9 million, with a carrying value of $0.9 million, resulting in a $2.0 million gain on the sale, which was recorded in Net (gain) loss on divestitures, disposals and impairment charges on our Consolidated Statements of Operations. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, we sold six funeral homes and one cemetery that had a carrying value of property, plant and equipment of $3.1 million, which was included in the loss on sale and recorded in Net (gain) loss on divestitures, disposals and impairment charges on our Consolidated Statements of Operations. Our growth and maintenance capital expenditures totaled $1.6 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024. In addition, we recorded depreciation expense of $3.5 million and $3.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Cemetery Property Cemetery property was $109.4 million and $112.9 million, net of accumulated amortization of $71.4 million and $72.6 million at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. When cemetery property is sold, the value of the cemetery property (interment right costs) is expensed as amortization using the specific identification method in the period in which the sale of the interment right is recognized as revenue. Our growth capital expenditures for cemetery property development totaled $1.6 million and $2.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. We recorded amortization expense for cemetery interment rights of $1.8 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024. During the three months ended March 31, 2025, we sold three cemeteries that had a carrying value of cemetery property of $3.3 million, which was included in the gain on sale and recorded in Net (gain) loss on divestitures, disposals and impairment charges on our Consolidated Statements of Operations, more fully described in Note 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, we sold one cemetery that had a carrying value of cemetery property of $0.8 million, which was included in the loss on sale and recorded in Net (gain) loss on divestitures, disposals and impairment charges on our Consolidated Statements of Operations. Income Taxes Income tax expense was $5.3 million and $3.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Our operating tax rate before discrete items was 31.2% and 32.8% for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Subsequent Events We have evaluated events and transactions during the period subsequent to March 31, 2025 through the date the financial statements were issued for potential recognition or disclosure in the accompanying consolidated financial statements covered by this report.

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