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

CATO POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where CATO ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 92.7% of US stocks.
• CATO's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• CATO ranks lowest in Stability; there it ranks in the 41st percentile.

CATO Stock Summary

• Cato Corp's stock had its IPO on April 23, 1987, making it an older stock than 91.92% of US equities in our set.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.42, Cato Corp has a higher such ratio than merely 9.14% of stocks in our set.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, CATO is more volatile than only 10.96% of stocks we're observing.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Cato Corp are VIRC, SAMG, BGSF, OLLI, and HVT.
• 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

• In comparison to the median Consumer Cyclical stock, CATO's price/sales ratio is 57.14% lower, now standing at 0.6.
• Over the past 243 months, CATO's price/sales ratio has gone down 0.1.
• Over the past 243 months, CATO's price/sales ratio has gone down 0.1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CATO.

CATO Growth Metrics

Its 4 year price growth rate is now at -73.06%.
• The 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -241.74%.
• Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -162.69%.

CATO's revenue has moved down $108,960,000 over the prior 49 months.

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
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
2020-12-31	575.111	-30.71	-47.483
2020-09-30	610.572	-21.975	-42.419
2020-06-30	651.304	-40.014	-32.812

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.