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CATO REPORTS 4Q AND FULL YEAR LOSS
PRNewswire (Thu, 19-Mar 7:00 AM ET)
The Cato Corp seeks to offer quality fashion apparel and accessories at low prices every day, in junior/missy and plus sizes. The Cato concept's stores and e-commerce website feature a broad assortment of apparel and accessories, including dressy, career, and casual sportswear, dresses, coats, shoes, lingerie, costume jewelry, and handbags. Management believes the Company's success is dependent upon its ability to differentiate its stores from department stores, mass merchandise discount stores, and competing specialty stores. The key elements of the Company's business are: Merchandise Assortment, Value Pricing, Strip Shopping Center Location, Customer Service, Credit and Layaway Programs.
Cato Class A trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol CATO.
As of April 9, 2026, CATO stock price was flat at $3.10 with 214 million shares trading.
CATO has a beta of 1.39, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. CATO has a correlation of 0.14 to the broad based SPY ETF.
CATO has a market cap of $61.18 million. This is considered a Micro Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, CATO traded as high as $8.91 and as low as $2.19.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that CATO belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VXF, DFMC, DFAT, DFAC.
CATO has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +21.1%, while the SPY ETF gained +37.6%. In the last 3 month period, CATO fell short of the market, returning -3.7%, while SPY returned -1.8%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks CATO has outperformed the stock market by returning +12.7%, while SPY returned +2.9%.
CATO support price is $2.95 and resistance is $3.25 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that CATO shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
