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Cato (CATO) EBT Margin (2016 - 2025)

Cato (CATO) has 16 years of EBT Margin data on record, last reported at 4.09% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, EBT Margin rose 600.0% year-over-year to 4.09%; the TTM value through Nov 2025 reached 1.41%, up 82.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 2.48%, 53.0% down from the prior year.
  • EBT Margin reached 4.09% in Q4 2025 per CATO's latest filing, down from 3.7% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, EBT Margin topped out at 11.26% in Q2 2021 and bottomed at 10.09% in Q4 2024.
  • Average EBT Margin over 5 years is 0.38%, with a median of 0.89% recorded in 2023.
  • Peak YoY movement for EBT Margin: skyrocketed 4852bps in 2021, then tumbled -727bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of EBT Margin shows it stood at 1.68% in 2021, then tumbled by -417bps to 5.32% in 2022, then fell by -23bps to 6.54% in 2023, then crashed by -54bps to 10.09% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 59bps to 4.09% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for EBT Margin were 4.09% in Q4 2025, 3.7% in Q3 2025, and 2.49% in Q2 2025.