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Cato Corporation (The) (CATO) Company Bio

The Cato Corporation operates as a specialty retailer of fashion apparel and accessories in the Southeastern United States. The company was founded in 1946 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

CATO Price Forecast Based on DCF Valuation

The table below illustrates the output of a discounted cash flow forecast using a variety of scenarios for Cato Corp. To summarize, we found that Cato Corp ranked in the 48st percentile in terms of potential gain offered. We should note, though, that the most conservative analysis suggests this stock will yield negative results -- and thus may be a potential short opportunity. In terms of the factors that were most noteworthy in this DCF analysis for CATO, they are:

• Its compound free cash flow growth rate, as measured over the past 5.48 years, is -0.05% -- higher than only 22.08% of stocks in our DCF forecasting set.
• CATO's estimated cost of debt, based largely on its market capitalization and its interest coverage ratio, is 3%; for context, that number is higher than 40.05% of tickers in our DCF set.
• Relative to other stocks in its sector (Consumer Cyclical), Cato Corp has a reliance on debt greater than merely 13.83% of them.

ADNT, NVR, BLMN, GIII, and GT can be thought of as valuation peers to CATO, in the sense that they are in the Consumer Cyclical sector and have a similar price forecast based on DCF valuation.