Capital Senior Living Corporation Q1 2010 Earnings Call Transcript

Capital Senior Living Corporation (CSU)

Q1 2010 Earnings Call

May 6, 2010 11:00 a.m. ET

Executives

Larry Cohen - CEO

Ralph Beattie - EVP & CFO

Analysts

Dan Bernstein - Stifel Nicolaus

Presentation

Operator

Good day and welcome to the Capital Senior Living First Quarter 2010 Earnings Release Conference Call. Today’s conference is been recorded.

Compare to:
Previous Statements by CSU
» Capital Senior Living Corp. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
» Capital Senior Living Corporation Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
» Capital Senior Living Corporation F2Q08 (Qtr End 6/30/08) Earnings Call Transcript

The forward-looking statements in this release are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially including, but not without limitations to the company’s ability to find suitable acquisition properties at favorable terms, financing, licensing, business condition, risks of downturns in economic conditions generally, satisfaction of closing conditions such as those pertaining to licenser, availability of insurance at commercially reasonable rates and changes in accounting principles and interpretations among others, and other risk and factors identified from time to time in our reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Mr. Larry Cohen, Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead sir.

Larry Cohen

Thank you, good morning. I am pleased to welcome everyone to Capital Senior Living’s First Quarter 2010 Earnings Release Conference Call. The first quarter of the year is typically our most challenging period and this year was particularly impacted by harsh weather around the country.

Yet we achieved positive results through increases and average multi-rents and tight control of expenses. Our EBITDAR margin increased from the first quarter of 2009 and cash flow from operations was $0.15 per share. We are encouraged by improvement in move-ins and deposits in March and April and by the fact that new supply is practically non-existent as demand continues to grow.