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Cato Corp

CATO

4.380USD

-0.120-2.67%

Close 09/19, 16:00（ET）Quotes delayed by 15 min

86.40MMarket Cap

LossP/E TTM

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Cato Corp

4.380

-0.120-2.67%

Overview Company Financials Analysis

TradingKey Stock Score

Overall Financial Health

Valuation Dimensions

Earnings Forecast

Price Momentum

Institutional Confidence

Risk Assessment

Peer Comparison

TradingKey Stock Score

Currency: USD Updated: 2025-09-19

Key Insights

The company's fundamentals are relatively very healthy. Its valuation is considered fairly valued,and institutional recognition is very high. Despite a very weak market performance, the company shows strong fundamentals and technicals. The stock price is trading sideways between the support and resistance levels, making it suitable for range-bound swing trading.

Score

Industry at a Glance

Industry Ranking

72 / 95

Overall Ranking

299 / 4720

Industry

Specialty Retailers

Support & Resistance

No Data

Score Analysis

Current score

Previous score

Analyst Rating

Based on 0 analysts

Current Rating

Target Price

Upside Space

Data disclaimer: Analyst ratings and target prices are provided by LSEG for informational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice.

Company Highlights

StrengthsRisks

The Cato Corporation is a fashion specialty retailer. The Company operates through two segments: the operation of a fashion specialty stores segment (Retail Segment) and a credit card segment (Credit Segment). The Company's merchandise lines include dressy, career, and casual sportswear, dresses, coats, shoes, lingerie, costume jewelry, handbags, men's wear and lines for kids and infants. The apparel specialty stores operate under the names Cato, Cato Fashions, Cato Plus, Its Fashion, Its Fashion Metro and Versona, including e-commerce websites. The Versona brand stores and e-commerce Website offer quality fashion apparel items, jewelry and accessories at values every day. The Company offers its own credit cards to its customers and all credit authorizations, payment processing and collection efforts are performed by a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. It operates approximately 1,178 fashion specialty stores in 31 states, principally in the southeastern United States.

Fairly Valued

The company’s latest PE is -3.27, at a medium 3-year percentile range.

Institutional Selling

The latest institutional holdings are 9.72M shares, decreasing 18.13% quarter-over-quarter.

Held by The Vanguard

Star Investor The Vanguard holds 822.16K shares of this stock.

Higher Market Activity

The company has more investor interest, with a 20-day turnover ratio of 0.73.

Financial Health

Currency: USD Updated: 2025-09-19

The company's current financial score is 7.97, which is higher than the Specialty Retailers industry's average of 7.20. Its financial status is robust, and its operating efficiency is average. Its latest quarterly revenue reached 176.51M, representing a year-over-year increase of 4.67%, while its net profit experienced a year-over-year increase of 6162.50%.

Score

Industry at a Glance

Previous score

7.97

Change

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Financials

8.63

Key Metrics

Cash and cash equivalents

Total assets

Total liabilities

Free cash flow

No Data

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Quality of Earnings

6.69

Key Metrics

Total revenue

Operating profit

Total assets

SG&A

No Data

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Operational Efficiency

7.33

Key Metrics

Cash flow from operating activities

Income after tax

No Data

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Growth Potential

8.39

Key Metrics

Cash flow from operating activities

Total revenue

No Data

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Shareholder Returns

8.84

Key Metrics

Free cash flow

No Data

Company Valuation

Currency: USD Updated: 2025-09-19

The company’s current valuation score is 4.00, which is lower than the Specialty Retailers industry's average of 5.03. Its current P/E ratio is -3.36, which is -9.85% below the recent high of -3.03 and -933.85% above the recent low of -34.77.

Score

Industry at a Glance

Previous score

4.00

Change

Valuation Dimensions

P/E

P/B

P/S

P/CF

Industry Ranking 72/95

No Data

Earnings Forecast

Currency: USD Updated: 2025-09-19

There is no earnings forecast score for this company; the Specialty Retailers industry's average is 7.17.

Score

Industry at a Glance

Previous score

0.00

Change

Support & Resistance

No Data

No Data

Financial Forecasting

EPS

Revenue

Net Profit

EBIT

No Data

Data disclaimer: Analyst ratings and target prices are provided by LSEG for informational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice.

Price Momentum

Currency: USD Updated: 2025-09-19

The company’s current price momentum score is 9.15, which is higher than the Specialty Retailers industry's average of 7.54. Sideways: Currently, the stock price is trading between the resistance level at 5.24 and the support level at 3.44, making it suitable for range-bound swing trading.

Score

Industry at a Glance

Previous score

9.15

Change

-0.36

Support & Resistance

No Data

Indicators

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This feature includes nine of the commonly used technical indicators: MACD, RSI, KDJ, StochRSI, ATR, CCI, WR, TRIX and MA. You may also adjust the timeframe depending on your needs.

Please note that technical analysis is only part of investment reference, and there is no absolute standard for using numerical values to assess direction. The results are for reference only, and we are not responsible for the accuracy of the indicator calculations and summaries.

Indicators

Sell(4)

Neutral(3)

Buy(0)

Indicators

Value

Direction

MACD(12,26,9)

-0.079

Neutral

RSI(14)

59.100

Neutral

STOCH(KDJ)(9,3,3)

30.062

Sell

ATR(14)

0.276

Low Volatility

CCI(14)

-56.058

Neutral

Williams %R

68.153

Sell

TRIX(12,20)

1.557

Sell

StochRSI(14)

0.000

Sell

Moving Average

Sell(2)

Neutral(0)

Buy(4)

Indicators

Value

Direction

MA5

4.530

Sell

MA10

4.550

Sell

MA20

4.332

Buy

MA50

3.492

Buy

MA100

3.109

Buy

MA200

3.186

Buy

Institutional Confidence

Currency: USD Updated: 2025-09-19

The company’s current institutional recognition score is 5.00, which is lower than the Specialty Retailers industry's average of 8.35. The latest institutional shareholding proportion is 54.09%, representing a quarter-over-quarter decrease of 2.70%. The largest institutional shareholder is The Vanguard, holding a total of 822.16K shares, representing 4.58% of shares outstanding, with 2.22% increase in holdings.

Score

Industry at a Glance

Previous score

5.00

Change

Institutional Shareholding

No Data

Shareholder Activity

Name

Shares Held

Chg %

Agarwal (Amit Mohan)

1.43M

Cato (John P Derham)

1.40M

+0.03%

Aldebaran Capital, LLC

1.06M

-1.51%

The Vanguard Group, Inc.

Star Investors

840.65K

Dimensional Fund Advisors, L.P.

827.96K

-6.93%

Peapod Lane Capital LLC

656.69K

+13.49%

Renaissance Technologies LLC

Star Investors

560.50K

-0.51%

BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A.

389.64K

-0.49%

Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership

294.90K

RBF Capital, LLC

202.60K

Risk Assessment

Currency: USD Updated: 2025-09-19

The company’s current risk assessment score is 3.12, which is lower than the Specialty Retailers industry's average of 4.05. The company's beta value is 0.88. This indicates that the stock tends to underperform the index during upward trending markets but experiences smaller declines during downward trending markets.