THE CATO CORPORATION (CATO)

2.61USD -1.51% (-0.04)

Over 6M: -12.1%

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Candles and bars need the day’s open, high and low, and need room to be drawn in: past about a year of trading a body is thinner than a hairline, so those three offer the longest window that fits instead.

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Financials Quarterly

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Revenue Gross Profit Operating Income Cost of Revenue Operating Cash Flow Free Cash Flow Net Income

A share count and earnings a share are not here: neither is money, so neither can share this axis. Both have their own panel on All charts.

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Q1 '17 — Gross Profit: 124M Q2 '17 — Gross Profit: 89.8M Q3 '17 — Gross Profit: 75.6M Q4 '17 — Gross Profit: 65.1M Q1 '18 — Gross Profit: 94M Q2 '18 — Gross Profit: 65.7M Q3 '18 — Gross Profit: 65.8M Q1 '19 — Gross Profit: 71.5M Q2 '19 — Gross Profit: 96M Q3 '19 — Gross Profit: 79.1M Q4 '19 — Gross Profit: 67M Q1 '20 — Gross Profit: 65M Q2 '20 — Gross Profit: 94.3M Q3 '20 — Gross Profit: 82.2M Q4 '20 — Gross Profit: 72.9M Q1 '21 — Gross Profit: 67.1M Q2 '21 — Gross Profit: 17.1M Q3 '21 — Gross Profit: 35.4M Q3 '21 — Gross Profit: 41.4M Q4 '21 — Gross Profit: 48M 0 25M 50M 75M 100M 125M
Q2 '17 Q1 '18 Q1 '19 Q4 '19 Q3 '20 Q2 '21 Q4 '21
Gross Profit

Figures as at 2026-05-02, reported in USD. The newest fact in the filings is dated 2026-05-02, 121 days ago. Nothing on this page is advice.

How it scores

Five questions, each answered by the measures under it. Every figure is the company's own; the bar beside it is where that figure sits among the companies read here — the top fifth, the bottom fifth, or somewhere between. Not among all listed companies, and for a valuation multiple the low end is the good end.

Quality

How much of the revenue is really kept — and what did it take to earn it?

2.5
SBC / sales 0.31%
OE margin -0.48%
Oper. margin -1.1%
ROIC -6.6%
Accruals -0.6%
Gross margin 34.5%
FCF margin -0.17%
Profit margin 0.014%
ROA 0.021%
ROE 0.055%
OCF margin 0.42%
ROCE -2.6%
OCF / EBIT —

5 of 17 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Valuation

What does the price ask for what the company earns, owns and pays out?

4.8
EV/OE 10.0×
EV/Sales -0.048×
P/B 0.3×
P/C 0.61×
FCF yield -2.2%
P/E 543.9×
Div. yield —
EV/EBIT —
EV/GP —
Fwd P/E —
PEG —

2 of 12 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Durability

How predictable is the revenue, and how much of it is already committed?

3.2
RPO / sales 0.011×
Segment HHI 0.99 HHI
RPO growth —

4 of 7 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Resilience

Can the balance sheet absorb a bad year?

4.0
ND/EBITDA -2.6
Interest cover -62.2×
Cash runway 74.2 yr
Debt / Eq 0.0×
Debt payback 0.0 yr
Payout 0.0%
F-score 6.8 pts
Quick ratio 0.74×
Cash / Debt —

3 of 12 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

Growth

Is the business getting bigger, and is it getting more profitable?

3.4
Sales/sh Y/Y +4.3%
Sales Q/Q +0.51%
Div. growth -100.0%
EBIT CAGR —
EBIT Y/Y —
EPS CAGR 4Y —
EPS Y/Y —
EPS next Y —

4 of 13 counted in the score. The rest are measures this model does not include here, or figures these filings do not carry — switch any of them on and the score changes.

A measure absent from a block could not be computed from this company's filings. It is left out rather than scored as though it were bad, and the dimension is averaged over what remains. A score is measured against a fixed scale this model states; the bar is measured against the other companies, so the two can disagree — and where they do, that disagreement is the more interesting figure.