Revenue
$644M
−1.1%YoY
Gross profit
$216M
+0.5%YoY33.6%margin
Free cash flow
$2M
0.3%margin
Trailing 12 months
Cato Corp
CATO
About Cato
The Cato Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty retailer of fashion apparel and accessories primarily in the southeastern United States. It operates through two segments, Retail and Credit. The company's stores and e-commerce websites offer a range of apparel and accessories, including dressy, career, and casual sportswear; and dresses, coats, shoes, lingerie, costume jewelry, and handbags, as well as men's wear, and lines for kids and infants. It operates its stores and e-commerce websites under the Cato, Cato Fashions, Cato Plus, It's Fashion, It's Fashion Metro, and Versona names. It also provides credit card services and layaway plans for customers. The Cato Corporation was incorporated in 1946 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Employees
- 6,700
- Business address
- CHARLOTTE, NC
- Fiscal year ends
- January 30
- Listed
- NYSE · CATO
Share price
Daily closing price. The header shows the latest close, the market cap at that close and the change over the selected range. Hover or tap the chart to read any day.
$2.39
−$1.95 (−44.93%)past year
- Market cap
- $48M
- At close
- Oct 6, 2026
Share price vs index
Cato's share price and the index, each as its percentage change since the first day of the selected range. The shading shows the gap: green while Cato is ahead, orange while it is behind. The values at the end are each one's change over the range.
Valuation
Market cap divided by trailing 12 months net income (P/E) and revenue (P/S), using the four quarters reported by each day. Turn a series off in the key and the chart rescales to the other.
Revenue mix
Revenue by segment
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Revenue reported by each segment. The figure at the top of each column is total revenue. Where a company reports eliminations between segments, the columns show segment revenue before them; hover a column for the eliminations and the reported total. Switch to % to see each segment's share.
Segment growth
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Each segment's revenue in the chosen period against the same period a year earlier (YoY), so seasonal swings cancel out, or against the quarter before (QoQ). A year is always compared with the year before. Hover or tap a line to bring it forward.
Income statement
Revenue, gross profit and net income
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Revenue, gross profit and net income on one scale, so their sizes can be compared period by period.
Income statement
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How revenue becomes net income in the chosen year or quarter. Solid bars are totals; hatched bars are the costs taken off between them.
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Operating leverage
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Revenue growth against operating expense growth, each against the same quarter a year earlier. While revenue grows faster than opex, each extra dollar of sales keeps more profit.
Cash flow
Operating and free cash flow
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Free cash flow is what is left of operating cash flow after capital expenditure. The gap between each pair of bars is that year's capex.
Cash flow statement
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Capital allocation
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Operating cash flow above zero; what it was spent on below: capital expenditure, dividends and buybacks.
Stock-based compensation
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Stock-based compensation reported in the cash flow statement each period. The line is that amount as a percentage of the same period's revenue.
Stock-based compensation% of revenue
Balance sheet
Assets, liabilities and equity
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The balance sheet at the end of the chosen year or quarter. What the company owns on the left, against what it owes and what belongs to shareholders on the right. Both columns add up to total assets.
War chest
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Cash and short-term investments held at each quarter end. The figure at the top of each column is the total.