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THE Cato Corporation CATO

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported
SEC FILINGS ONLY
Revenue · FY2025
$646.8M
▲ 0.7% vs FY2024
EPS · FY25
$-0.31
Dividend / sh · FY25
$0.00
Payout · FY25
-0%
ROE · FY25
-3.7%
Net margin · FY25
-0.9%
Dividend coverage
-1.9×
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Result
USD 646.8M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue Net income
0.40.81.20.6-0.02009201220152018202120242025
0.40.81.20.6-0.02016201920222025

The company lost 1 cents on every revenue dollar this year.

Per share
USD -0.31
Diluted EPS, FY2025
EPS Dividend
1230.00-0.312009201220152018202120242025
1230.00-0.312016201920222025

The dividend was paid in a year without profit.

Profitability
-3.7%
Return on equity, FY2025
ROE
5101520-3.7%2009201220152018202120242025
5101520-3.7%2016201920222025
Operating margin-2.0%
Net margin-0.9%
Return on assets-1.4%

Each USD of equity lost 4 cents this year.

Returned to shareholders
USD 995,000.00
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Dividends paid
Net buybacksUSD 995,000.00
Share of profit-16.8%
Consecutive raises

USD 995,000.00 in buybacks went back to shareholders in a year without profit.

Growth
+2.7% a year
revenue, compounded over five years
CAGR
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs
Revenue
−4.9%
+2.7%
−4.4%
−2.4%
Returned to shareholders
−67.7%
−48.5%
−30.8%
−19.6%

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where the series crosses a loss.

Share base
Shares outstanding, FY2025
Change, 5 years
Change, 10 years

A share split breaks the comparison across the period, so we leave it out.

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Balance sheet
USD 421.4M
total assets, end of FY2025
Total assetsUSD 421.4M
EquityUSD 157.3M
CashUSD 16.8M
Current ratio1.24×

Equity funds 37% of total assets.

History
17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
Metric
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
Revenue $B
0.6
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.8
0.6
0.8
0.8
0.8
0.9
1.0
1.0
0.9
0.9
0.9
0.9
0.9
Operating income $B
−0.0
−0.0
−0.0
−0.0
0.0
−0.1
0.0
0.0
0.0
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
EBITDA $B
−0.0
−0.0
−0.0
0.0
0.1
−0.1
0.1
0.0
0.0
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
Income tax $B
−0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
−0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Net income $B
−0.0
−0.0
−0.0
0.0
0.0
−0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.0
EPS, diluted $
−0.31
−0.97
−1.17
0.00
1.65
−2.01
1.46
1.23
0.34
1.72
2.39
2.15
1.86
2.11
2.21
2.00
1.53
Dividend / sh $
0.00
0.51
0.68
0.68
0.45
1.32
1.32
1.32
1.29
1.29
1.20
0.20
0.20
2.98
0.88
0.72
0.66
Payout %
−0
−58
−58
49548
27
−17
91
107
395
75
50
56
11
141
40
36
43
ROE %
−3.7
−10.2
−11.4
0.0
14.7
−16.9
11.3
9.5
2.4
11.9
16.9
15.7
14.8
17.3
18.5
17.6
·
Shares out B
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks figures not disclosed in the filing for that year.

How we verifyAUDITED
47 of 47
checks passed before publication
EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidity

Every figure was compared against the original statement: 0 failures and 0 presentation gaps.

What we don’t show

We’d rather say what’s missing than fill the gap with an estimate.

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