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

CATO POWR Grades

• CATO scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 98.12% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for CATO is in Growth, which has been heading up over the past 52 weeks.
• CATO's current lowest rank is in the Stability metric (where it is better than 36.13% of US stocks).

CATO Stock Summary

• Cato Corp's stock had its IPO on April 23, 1987, making it an older stock than 91.87% of US equities in our set.
• With a price/sales ratio of 0.5, Cato Corp has a higher such ratio than only 9.8% of stocks in our set.
• Over the past twelve months, CATO has reported earnings growth of -153.71%, putting it ahead of just 13.21% of US stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Cato Corp are OCC, DYNT, UFCS, FSTR, and GLRE.
• 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

• The 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at -56.82%.
• The 2 year price growth rate now stands at -55.45%.
• Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at -19.06%.

CATO's revenue has moved up $31,325,000 over the prior 15 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
2021-06-30	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
2020-03-31	695.715	-32.607	-13.776

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.