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Fair Value Measurements
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
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Fair Value Measurements

NOTE C - FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS

 

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a statement that defines fair value and establishes a framework for measuring fair value. This framework provides a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to quoted market prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurement) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurement). The three levels of fair value hierarchy are described as follows:

Level 1 - Quoted market prices in active markets for identical assets and liabilities,

 

Level 2 - Inputs other than level 1 inputs that are either directly or indirectly observable, and

 

Level 3 - Unobservable inputs developed using the company’s estimates and assumptions, which reflect those a market participant would use.

 

A financial instrument's level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of any input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The following is a description of the valuation methodologies used for instruments measured at fair value, including the general classification of such instruments pursuant to the valuation hierarchy. There have been no changes in the methodologies used during the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.

 

Registered Investment Companies

 

Valued at the daily closing price as reported by the fund. The funds held by the Plan are open-end mutual funds that are registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These funds are required to publish their daily net asset value (“NAV”) and to transact at that price. The mutual funds held by the Plan are deemed to be actively traded and therefore are classified within Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.

 

Pooled Separate Accounts

 

The Plan's investments in pooled separate accounts (PSAs) are offered through variable annuity contracts issued by Empower. Each PSA invests exclusively in a corresponding T. Rowe Price Retirement Series target-date portfolio. These portfolios are diversified across a broad mix of T. Rowe Price equity and fixed-income mutual funds, including U.S. equity, international equity, fixed income, inflation-protected securities, and short-term investments. Asset allocations follow a through-retirement glidepath, becoming more conservative as the target retirement date approaches and continuing to adjust beyond the target year.

 

The PSAs are measured at fair value and are classified within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy since their valuation is based on observable inputs, including the NAV of the underlying T. Rowe Price Retirement Series mutual funds and observable market pricing for the securities held within those funds. The PSAs do not have quoted prices for identical assets in active markets and therefore do not qualify for Level 1 classification. No significant unobservable inputs are used in determining fair value; accordingly, Level 3 classification is not applicable.

 

The PSAs offered through Empower do not have lock-up periods, gates or withdrawal restrictions, redemption fees, and advance notice requirements. The Plan is not subject to any contractual restrictions that would limit its ability to redeem PSA interests at fair value.

 

Common and Collective Trust Fund

 

This investment is valued using the NAV as a practical expedient and is not classified within the fair value hierarchy. There are no participant redemption restrictions for this investment; the redemption notice period is applicable only to the Plan.

 

The following tables present information for which the NAV per share practical expedient was used:

 

 

 

Net Asset Value used as a practical expedient as of December 31, 2025:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Redemption

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unfunded

 

Frequency

 

Redemption

Description

 

Fair Value

 

 

Commitments

 

(If Currently Eligible)

 

Notice Period

Invesco Stable Value Trust Fund

 

$

2,973,527

 

 

N/A

 

Daily

 

12 months

 

 

 

Net Asset Value used as a practical expedient as of December 31, 2024:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Redemption

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unfunded

 

Frequency

 

Redemption

Description

 

Fair Value

 

 

Commitments

 

(If Currently Eligible)

 

Notice Period

Invesco Stable Value Trust Fund

 

$

3,472,715

 

 

N/A

 

Daily

 

12 months

 

Culp, Inc. Common Stock

 

This investment is valued at the closing price reported on the New York Stock Exchange, which is the active market the individual security is traded. This investment is classified within Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy.

 

The Plan held 207,640 shares and 196,376 shares of the Company’s common stock as of December 31, 2025, and 2024, respectively. The cost basis of these shares of the Company’s common stock was $1,970,986 and $1,253,261 as of December 31, 2025, and 2024, respectively.

 

Money Market Fund

 

This investment is a public investment vehicle valued using $1 for the NAV. The money market fund is classified within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy.

 

The methods described above may produce a fair value calculation that may not be indicative of net realizable value or reflective of future fair values. Furthermore, while the Plan believes its valuation methods are appropriate and consistent with other market participants, the use of different methodologies or assumptions to determine the fair value of certain financial instruments could result in a different fair value measurement at the reporting date.

 

 

 

The following tables present information about assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis:

 

Fair value measurements as of December 31, 2025, using:

 

 

Quoted prices

 

 

Significant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

in active

 

 

other

 

 

Significant

 

 

 

 

 

markets for

 

 

observable

 

 

unobservable

 

 

 

 

 

identical assets

 

 

inputs

 

 

inputs

 

 

 

 

Description

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

 

Investments at Fair Value

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Registered investment companies

$

38,357,555

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

38,357,555

 

Culp, Inc. common stock

 

739,327

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

739,327

 

Pooled Separate Accounts - T. Rowe Price
    Retirement Series

 

 

 

 

7,364,105

 

 

 

 

 

 

7,364,105

 

Money market fund

 

 

 

 

32,578

 

 

 

 

 

 

32,578

 

Total investments in the fair value hierarchy

$

39,096,882

 

 

$

7,396,683

 

 

$

 

 

$

46,493,565

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investments at net asset value, as a practical expedient:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common and collective trust fund

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,973,527

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total investments at fair value



 

 



 

 



 

 

$

49,467,092

 

 

 

 

 

Fair value measurements as of December 31, 2024, using:

 

 

Quoted prices

 

 

Significant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

in active

 

 

other

 

 

Significant

 

 

 

 

 

markets for

 

 

observable

 

 

unobservable

 

 

 

 

 

identical assets

 

 

inputs

 

 

inputs

 

 

 

 

Description

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

 

Investments at Fair Value

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Registered investment companies

$

40,077,354

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

40,077,354

 

Culp, Inc. common stock

 

1,153,883

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,153,883

 

Money market fund

 

 

 

 

43,493

 

 

 

 

 

 

43,493

 

Total investments in the fair value hierarchy

$

41,231,237

 

 

$

43,493

 

 

$

 

 

$

41,274,730

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investments at net asset value, as a practical expedient:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common and collective trust fund

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3,472,715

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total investments at fair value



 

 



 

 



 

 

$

44,747,445