How do you interpret operating segments — provision for doubtful accounts?

An increase suggests rising credit risk or deteriorating customer payment performance, while a decrease indicates improved collection efficiency or stronger customer credit quality.

How does operating segments — provision for doubtful accounts compare across companies?

Standard across most service-oriented companies; peers in equipment rental typically report this as a percentage of total revenue.

U-Haul Holding UHAL.B Operating Segments — Provision For Doubtful Accounts

Discontinued — last reported Q1 '18

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BALLOperating Segments — Provision For Doubtful Accounts

$17M+152%

BRK.ARailroad Utilities And Energy — Allowance For Doubtful Accounts Premiums And Other Receivables

$92M-20.7%

HBANOperating Segments — Provision For Loan And Lease Losses

$56M+124%

SWKProvision for Doubtful Accounts, Including Divestiture

$4.6M-17.1%

WMProvision For Doubtful Accounts And Other Credit Losses

$29M+52.6%

DVAOperating Segments — Health Care Organization Patient Service Revenue Provisionfor Bad Debts

-$25.2M-124%

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$1.3B+3.1%

Gross profit$1.4B+3.5%

Operating income$33.7M-77.7%

Net income$37.0M-45.0%

EPS (diluted)$0.11-76.7%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$1.1B+13.3%

Total debt$8.1B+11.5%

Total equity$7.6B+1.5%

Total assets$21.5B+5.0%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$404.0M+103%

CapEx$551.7M-6.3%

Free cash flow-$147.7M+62.2%

Valuation

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Market cap$11.82B-26.2%

Enterprise value$18.83B-13.6%

P/S2×-0.8×

Profitability

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Gross margin95.9%-0.1pp

Operating margin8.5%-4.9pp

Net margin7.9%-3.8pp

FCF margin-22.5%-5.8pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity6.1%-3.8pp

Debt / equity1.1×+0.1×

Where this comes from

Reported directly by U-Haul Holding in its filing.

Tagged under the XBRL concept us-gaap:ProvisionForDoubtfulAccounts.

The official record: U-Haul Holding’s 10-Q, filed August 8, 2018, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

Questions, answered.

What does operating segments — provision for doubtful accounts mean?: The estimated cost of customer accounts that are expected to go unpaid.
How do you interpret operating segments — provision for doubtful accounts?: An increase suggests rising credit risk or deteriorating customer payment performance, while a decrease indicates improved collection efficiency or stronger customer credit quality.
How does operating segments — provision for doubtful accounts compare across companies?: Standard across most service-oriented companies; peers in equipment rental typically report this as a percentage of total revenue.