Cato Corporation (The) (CATO): Price and Financial Metrics

CATO POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where CATO ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 84.19% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for CATO is in Quality, which has been heading up over the past 177 days.
• CATO ranks lowest in Momentum; there it ranks in the 33rd percentile.

CATO Stock Summary

• CATO's went public 36.45 years ago, making it older than 92.32% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.22, CATO CORP has a higher such ratio than merely 7.67% of stocks in our set.
• In terms of twelve month growth in earnings before interest and taxes, CATO CORP is reporting a growth rate of -135.84%; that's higher than just 10.52% of US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to CATO CORP are NUS, SSNT, GCO, CTRN, and JCTCF.
• CATO's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit CATO CORP's official web site, go to www.catofashions.com.

CATO Valuation Summary

• CATO's price/earnings ratio is -79.7; this is 631.33% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• CATO's price/sales ratio has moved down 0.5 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CATO.

CATO Growth Metrics

Its 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -42.28%.
• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at -53.03%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 15.56%.

Over the past 15 months, CATO's revenue has gone up $29,398,000.

The table below shows CATO's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	756.438	-0.324	-3.443
2022-06-30	752.025	-5.193	9.613
2022-03-31	762.907	14.523	25.879
2021-12-31	769.271	59.788	36.844
2021-09-30	748.462	74.765	35.035
2021-06-30	727.04	99.476	22.81

CATO's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• CATO has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 78.85% of graded US stocks.
• CATO's asset turnover comes in at 1.216 -- ranking 112th of 165 Retail stocks.
• ULTA, DBI, and BURL are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with CATO.

The table below shows CATO's key quality metrics over time.