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Cato (CATO) EBIT Margin (2016 - 2025)

Cato (CATO) has 16 years of EBIT Margin data on record, last reported at 71.34% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, EBIT Margin rose 918.0% year-over-year to 71.34%; the TTM value through Nov 2025 reached 67.64%, up 65.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 69.64%, 212.0% down from the prior year.
  • EBIT Margin reached 71.34% in Q4 2025 per CATO's latest filing, down from 59.45% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, EBIT Margin topped out at 47.98% in Q3 2021 and bottomed at 80.7% in Q4 2022.
  • Average EBIT Margin over 5 years is 66.37%, with a median of 64.73% recorded in 2024.
  • Peak YoY movement for EBIT Margin: soared 7209bps in 2021, then tumbled -2185bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of EBIT Margin shows it stood at 58.84% in 2021, then crashed by -37bps to 80.7% in 2022, then rose by 9bps to 73.41% in 2023, then decreased by -10bps to 80.53% in 2024, then increased by 11bps to 71.34% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for EBIT Margin were 71.34% in Q4 2025, 59.45% in Q3 2025, and 61.72% in Q2 2025.