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Cato (CATO) FCF Margin (2016 - 2025)

Cato (CATO) has 16 years of FCF Margin data on record, last reported at 9.62% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, FCF Margin rose 667.0% year-over-year to 9.62%; the TTM value through Nov 2025 reached 1.13%, up 210.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 4.25%, 418.0% down from the prior year.
  • FCF Margin reached 9.62% in Q4 2025 per CATO's latest filing, down from 7.06% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, FCF Margin topped out at 20.8% in Q2 2021 and bottomed at 16.29% in Q4 2024.
  • Average FCF Margin over 5 years is 0.41%, with a median of 0.88% recorded in 2024.
  • Peak YoY movement for FCF Margin: skyrocketed 9354bps in 2021, then plummeted -2263bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Margin shows it stood at 1.87% in 2021, then surged by 425bps to 6.07% in 2022, then tumbled by -222bps to 7.4% in 2023, then plummeted by -120bps to 16.29% in 2024, then soared by 41bps to 9.62% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for FCF Margin were 9.62% in Q4 2025, 7.06% in Q3 2025, and 1.67% in Q2 2025.