Dixie Group

A $7 million company is carrying $47 million of long-term debt while keeping just 0.8% of sales as operating profit.

If you own Dixie, you own a tiny carpet maker with luxury brands and almost no margin for error.

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consumer small cap updated mar 13, 2026
$0.45
market cap ~$7M · 52-week range $0–$1
xvary composite: 25 / 100 · weak
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what it is
Dixie makes and sells high-end carpets and rugs for homes, hotels, hospitals, and commercial buildings.
how it gets paid
Last year Dixie made $265M in revenue. residential carpet was the main engine at $106M, or 40% of sales.
what just happened
One headline period printed ~$194M revenue with EPS at -$0.32—that does not reconcile as a single quarter of the ~$265M fiscal year in the table below; use the annual bridge for mix and read the headline as a specific quarter/period, not FY.
At a glance
C balance sheet — red flag territory — real financial stress
15/100 earnings predictability — expect surprises
1.5% return on capital — nothing to write home about
-$0.83 fy2024 eps est
~$230M fy2026 rev est
xvary composite: 25/100 — weak
What they do
Dixie makes and sells high-end carpets and rugs for homes, hotels, hospitals, and commercial buildings.
This is a niche brand play, not a scale monster. Dixie sells into the high-end market through brands like Fabrica, Masland, and Dixie Home, and it reaches buyers from homes to hotels with 951 employees. If your customer cares more about design and specification than the cheapest square foot, a known brand gets you in the room.
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How they make money
$265M annual revenue
residential carpet
$106M
residential rugs
$32M
commercial specified
$87M
international sales
$27M
manufacturing services
$13M
The products that matter
manufactures and sells residential flooring
Residential Carpet
~$83.7M in one feed print · $15.5M gross profit (same period)
The rev-rows line below is full-year residential carpet at $106M—this card’s ~$83.7M is a different period carve-out from the feed, not the same roll-up. The point stands: sales exist; durable earnings barely do.
core business
Key numbers
88%
debt to capital
Debt to capital → how much of the business is financed by borrowing → so what: creditors are carrying most of the structure.
0.8%
operating margin
Operating margin → profit left after running the business → so what: Dixie keeps less than 1 cent from each sales dollar before interest and taxes.
-$0.83
2024 EPS
EPS → profit per share → so what: the company lost $0.83 per share for fiscal 2024.
$47M
long-term debt
Long-term debt → money owed beyond one year → so what: the debt load is about 6.7x the company's roughly $7 million market value.
Financial health
C
strength
  • balance sheet grade C — very weak — significant financial distress
  • risk rank 5 — safer than 5% of stocks
  • price stability 5 / 100
  • long-term debt $47M (88% of capital)
C — balance sheet grade and long-term debt are flagged. this stock carries more risk than average.
Total return vs. market

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What just happened
missed estimates
Headline revenue of ~$194M paired with EPS at -$0.32—still a loss story.
That ~$194M print does not foot as one quarter of the ~$265M FY revenue in the segment table; treat it as the cited reporting period, not the full year. Gross margin was 27.0%, yet the business still did not convert sales into earnings.
$194M
revenue
-$0.32
eps
27.0%
gross margin
the number that mattered
The key number was 27.0% gross margin, because even that was not enough to stop a loss.
source: company earnings report, 2026

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What could go wrong

the #1 risk is Nasdaq minimum bid-price compliance. If that issue ends in delisting, your problem is not just price — it is liquidity.

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high
delisting would change how you exit
The company has already warned that losing its Nasdaq listing would make the shares harder to trade. For a stock at $0.45 with a $7M market cap, reduced liquidity is a direct hit to investor confidence.
impact: the trading venue itself becomes part of the downside. That is rare, and it matters.
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high
$47M of long-term debt leaves little room
Long-term debt equals 88% of capital while the equity value is about $7M. That gap tells you creditors matter more than common shareholders if operating results stay weak.
impact: if the turnaround slips, equity absorbs the pain first.
med
thin margins mean small misses get expensive fast
A 0.8% operating margin and a -0.99% net margin leave almost no buffer. Revenue already fell 4.1% from last year, so the business is trying to fix profitability while demand is moving the wrong way.
impact: another weak quarter keeps the turnaround in theory instead of in the numbers.
with $47M of long-term debt, a $7M market cap, revenue down 4.1%, and a 5/100 price stability score, you do not need a disaster for the equity to get squeezed again.
source: institutional data · regulatory filings · risk analysis
Pay attention to
listing risk
Nasdaq compliance updates
This is the first thing to monitor. If the company clears the bid-price issue, one layer of risk comes off the table. If it does not, your liquidity risk rises with it.
calendar
next earnings release
The next report needs to do more than repeat the profit improvement plan. You want evidence that sales pressure is easing or that costs are finally moving down.
metric
operating margin above 0.8%
0.8% is too thin to support a real rerating. If you do not see margin improvement, the low sales multiple stays a trap instead of a bargain.
trend
revenue direction
Annual revenue already fell 4.1% from last year. If that decline keeps running while debt stays high, management is trying to cut its way out of a shrinking business.
Analyst rankings
earnings predictability
15 / 100
in human-speak, the earnings line is unstable enough that one quarter can change the story fast.
risk rank
5
that means it is safer than only a small slice of public stocks. you are being paid in uncertainty, not reliability.
xvary composite
25 / 100
the stock screens as weak because the valuation looks cheap while the business and balance sheet both look fragile.
source: institutional data
Institutional activity

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source: institutional data
Price targets
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