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

CATO POWR Grades

• CATO scores best on the Value dimension, with a Value rank ahead of 72.34% of US stocks.
• CATO's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
• CATO ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 17th percentile.

CATO Stock Summary

• CATO CORP's stock had its IPO on April 23, 1987, making it an older stock than 92.7% of US equities in our set.
• CATO's price/sales ratio is 0.28; that's higher than the P/S ratio of just 7.21% of US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for CATO comes in at 15.38% -- higher than that of 89.77% 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 FSTR, AKA, KBAL, FLXS, and PUYI.
• 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 84.21% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• Over the past 243 months, CATO's price/earnings ratio has gone down 71.4.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CATO.

CATO Growth Metrics

The 4 year price growth rate now stands at -53.03%.
• The 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at -163.23%.
• The year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at -82.94%.

CATO's revenue has moved down $151,899,000 over the prior 67 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
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.