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Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
 3 Months Ended
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, 2025December 31, 2024
Accounts receivable, net$36 $833 
Inventories52 302 
Prepaid and other current assets3 — 
Current assets held for sale$91 $1,135 
Preneed cemetery trust investments$1,059 $4,876 
Preneed funeral trust investments405 2,197 
Preneed cemetery receivables, net3 1,671 
Receivables from funeral preneed trusts, net27 — 
Property, plant and equipment, net1,554 4,898 
Cemetery property, net 128 3,362 
Intangible and other non-current assets, net223 215 
Operating lease right-of-use assets74 — 
Cemetery perpetual care trust investments322 2,234 
Non-current assets held for sale$3,795 $19,453 
Current portion of operating lease obligations $22 $— 
Accounts payable18 94 
Accrued and other liabilities114 146 
Current liabilities held for sale$154 $240 
Obligations under operating leases, net of current portion$53 $— 
Deferred preneed cemetery revenue97 3,517 
Deferred preneed funeral revenue27 1,018 
Deferred preneed cemetery receipts held in trust1,059 4,876 
Deferred preneed funeral receipts held in trust405 2,197 
Care trusts’ corpus322 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, 2025December 31, 2024
Land$85,462 $86,609 
Buildings and improvements264,733 265,231 
Furniture, equipment and vehicles70,863 72,052 
Property, plant and equipment, at cost421,058 423,892 
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.