Company: CULP
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000950170-25-035191
Chunk: 70

Company: CULP INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
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’s best interest to support future growth and the long-term interests of our shareholders. Accordingly, we did not make any dividend payments during the first nine months of fiscal 2025, fiscal 2024, and fiscal 2023.

Working Capital

Operating Working Capital

Operating working capital (the total of accounts receivable and inventories, less accounts payable-trade, less accounts payable-capital expenditures, and less deferred revenue) was $37.9 million as of January 26, 2025, compared with $39.0 million as of January 28, 2024, and $38.5 million as of April 28, 2024. Operating working capital turnover was 5.8 during the third quarter of fiscal 2025, compared with 5.9 during the third quarter of fiscal 2024 and 5.8 during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024.

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Accounts Receivable

Accounts receivable was $23.2 million as of January 26, 2025, a decrease of $527,000, or 2.2%, compared with $23.7 million as of January 28, 2024. This decrease in accounts receivable represents a decline in net sales of 13.5% during the third quarter of fiscal 2025 compared with the third quarter of fiscal 2024, as described in the section titled "Executive Summary-Net Sales". The decrease in accounts receivable due to the decline net sales was mostly offset by longer payment trends during the third quarter of fiscal 2025 compared with the third quarter of fiscal 2024, as we experienced a higher sales mix with customers with longer credit terms as well as a timing difference in cash receipts from certain significant customers associated with upholstery fabrics segment during the last week of the third quarter of fiscal 2024 relative to cash receipts during the third quarter of fiscal 2025. Accordingly, days’ sales outstanding increased to 39 days for the third quarter of fiscal 2025, compared with 33 days for the third quarter of fiscal 2024. 

Accounts receivable was $23.1 million as of January 26, 2025, an increase of $2.0 million, or 9.6%, compared with $21.1 million as of April 28, 2024. This trend was due to an increase in net sales during the third quarter of fiscal 2025, as compared to the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024. Net sales for the