Cato Corporation (The) (CATO): Price and Financial Metrics
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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.
Stock | Date | P/S | P/B | P/E | EV/EBIT |
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CATO | 2023-01-17 | 0.3 | 0.9 | -61.3 | -1726.6 |
CATO | 2023-01-13 | 0.3 | 0.9 | -62.4 | -1745.3 |
CATO | 2023-01-12 | 0.3 | 0.9 | -63.2 | -1760.4 |
CATO | 2023-01-11 | 0.3 | 0.9 | -63.3 | -1762.5 |
CATO | 2023-01-10 | 0.3 | 0.9 | -61.5 | -1729.7 |
CATO | 2023-01-09 | 0.3 | 0.9 | -60.1 | -1703.6 |
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%.

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 |
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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.
Period | Asset Turnover | Gross Margin | ROIC |
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2021-07-31 | 1.216 | 0.373 | 0.034 |
2021-05-01 | 1.147 | 0.312 | -0.020 |
2021-01-30 | 0.951 | 0.247 | -0.119 |
2020-10-31 | 0.972 | 0.264 | -0.102 |
2020-08-01 | 1.012 | 0.296 | -0.071 |
2020-05-02 | 1.056 | 0.344 | -0.031 |
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CATO Price/Volume Stats
Current price | $10.12 | 52-week high | $18.00 |
Prev. close | $10.18 | 52-week low | $8.40 |
Day low | $9.99 | Volume | 47,400 |
Day high | $10.23 | Avg. volume | 93,578 |
50-day MA | $9.80 | Dividend yield | 6.68% |
200-day MA | $11.31 | Market Cap | 214.35M |
Cato Corporation (The) (CATO) Company Bio
The Cato Corporation operates as a specialty retailer of fashion apparel and accessories in the Southeastern United States. The company was founded in 1946 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Latest CATO News From Around the Web
Below are the latest news stories about CATO CORP that investors may wish to consider to help them evaluate CATO as an investment opportunity.
With 56% ownership of the shares, The Cato Corporation (NYSE:CATO) is heavily dominated by institutional ownersIf you want to know who really controls The Cato Corporation ( NYSE:CATO ), then you'll have to look at the makeup of... |
Allegro Microsystems and CubeSmart Set to Join S&P MidCap 400; Others to Join S&P SmallCap 600S&P Dow Jones Indices ("S&P DJI") will make the following changes to the S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600 indices effective prior to the open of trading on Monday, December 19 to coincide with the quarterly rebalance: |
Cato (NYSE:CATO) Is Due To Pay A Dividend Of $0.17The board of The Cato Corporation ( NYSE:CATO ) has announced that it will pay a dividend on the 3rd of January, with... |
Cato Third Quarter 2023 Earnings: US$0.21 loss per share (vs US$0.39 profit in 3Q 2022)Cato ( NYSE:CATO ) Third Quarter 2023 Results Key Financial Results Revenue: US$176.6m (up 2.6% from 3Q 2022). Net... |
THE CATO CORPORATION ANNOUNCES REGULAR QUARTERLY DIVIDENDThe Board of Directors of The Cato Corporation (NYSE: CATO) declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.17 per share. The dividend will be payable on January 3, 2023 to shareholders of record on December 23, 2022. |
CATO Price Returns
1-mo | 7.32% |
3-mo | -13.44% |
6-mo | -16.28% |
1-year | -33.38% |
3-year | -30.19% |
5-year | 6.78% |
YTD | 8.47% |
2022 | -42.20% |
2021 | 84.02% |
2020 | -43.53% |
2019 | 32.97% |
2018 | -2.99% |
CATO Dividends
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