SERVICE CORP INTERNATIONAL

PART II

Financial Condition, Liquidity, and Capital Resources

Capital Allocation Considerations

We rely on cash flow from operations as a significant source of liquidity. Our cash flow from operating activities provided $942.8 million in 2025. In addition, as of December 31, 2025, we have $1,448.0 million in borrowing capacity under our revolving credit facility. As of December 31, 2025, we had $56.8 million in current maturities of long-term debt, which primarily consist of the current amounts due on our term loan, mortgage notes and other debt, and finance leases.

Our Bank Credit Facility requires us to maintain a certain leverage ratio with which we were in compliance at December 31, 2025. We target a leverage ratio of 3.5x to 4.0x.

Our financial covenant requirements and actual ratio as of December 31, 2025 are as follows:

We have the financial strength and flexibility to reward shareholders with dividends while maintaining a prudent capital structure and pursuing new opportunities for profitable growth.

Our unencumbered cash on hand, future operating cash flows, and the available capacity under our Bank Credit Facilities gives us adequate liquidity to meet our short-term needs as well as our long-term financial obligations. Due to cash balances residing in Canada and minimum operating cash requirements, a portion of our cash on hand is encumbered.

We consistently evaluate the best uses of our cash flow that will yield the highest value and return on capital. Our capital investment strategy is prioritized as follows:

Investing in Acquisitions and Building New Funeral Service and Cemetery Locations. We manage our footprint by focusing on strategic acquisitions and building new funeral service locations where the expected returns are attractive and exceed our weighted average cost of capital. We target businesses with favorable customer dynamics and/or where we can achieve the benefits of economies of scale. We continue to pursue strategic acquisitions and build new funeral service locations in areas that provide us with the potential for additional scale. In 2025, we invested $101.3 million in acquiring 22 funeral service locations and 2 cemeteries, which included 2 combination locations.

Return Excess Cash to Shareholders. In addition to any strategic acquisitions or new build opportunities, we continue to return cash to shareholders through dividends and our share repurchase program. Our quarterly dividend rate has steadily grown from $0.025 per common share in 2005 to $0.34 per common share at the end of 2025. We target a dividend payout ratio of 30% to 40% of after tax earnings excluding special items and intend to grow our cash dividend commensurate with the growth in our business. While we intend to pay regular quarterly cash dividends for the foreseeable future, all future dividends are subject to limitations in our debt covenants and final determination by our Board of Directors each quarter upon review of our financial performance. We also expect to continue to repurchase shares of our common stock in the open market or through privately negotiated transactions, subject to market conditions, debt covenants, and normal trading restrictions. There can be no assurance that we will buy our common stock under our repurchase program in the future. In 2025, we repurchased 5,864,563 shares of our common stock at an aggregate cost of $464.2 million, which is an average cost per share of $79.15. In 2024, we repurchased 3,439,551 shares of our common stock at an aggregate cost of $249.8 million, which is an average cost per share of $72.63. Subsequent to December 31, 2025, we repurchased 552,313 shares for $44.4 million at an average cost per share of $80.48.

Managing Debt. We continue to focus on maintaining optimal levels of liquidity and financial flexibility. Our recent $325.0 million increase in availability under our bank credit facility bolsters our flexible capital strategy and allows us to further manage our debt maturity profile by making open market debt repurchases when it is opportunistic to do so. We generate a relatively consistent annual cash flow stream that is generally resistant to down economic cycles. This cash flow stream and our significant liquidity allow us to substantially reduce our long-term debt maturities should we choose to do so. In November 2025, we entered into a new bank credit agreement due November 2030 consisting of a $750.0 million term loan, which is funded debt, and a revolving credit facility providing for borrowings of up to $1.75 billion. Proceeds from this new bank credit agreement were used to settle our existing Term Loan and Bank Credit Facility, which were both due January 2028. In addition to more favorable pricing, the new bank credit agreement provides us flexibility with incremental liquidity for capital investment, working capital, and other general corporate purposes.