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

CATO POWR Grades

• CATO scores best on the Value dimension, with a Value rank ahead of 79.12% of US stocks.
• CATO's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• CATO's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 15.49% of US stocks).

CATO Stock Summary

• CATO CORP's stock had its IPO on April 23, 1987, making it an older stock than 92.38% of US equities in our set.
• CATO's price/sales ratio is 0.27; that's higher than the P/S ratio of merely 8.28% of US stocks.
• CATO CORP's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 19.65%, greater than the shareholder yield of 89.84% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to CATO CORP, a group of peers worth examining would be APT, BGSF, NUS, KFY, and FOSL.
• 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/sales ratio is 0.3; this is 57.14% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• Over the past 243 months, CATO's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 23.3.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CATO.

CATO Growth Metrics

Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -36.39%.
• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at -52.74%.
• The 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -19.68%.

Over the past 33 months, CATO's revenue has gone down $74,865,000.

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
2022-06-30	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
2021-03-31	687.464	85.125	1.648

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.