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Cato (CATO) FCF Payout Ratio (2016 - 2024)

Cato has reported FCF Payout Ratio over the past 15 years, most recently at 0.2 for Q4 2024.

  • For Q4 2024, FCF Payout Ratio fell 9.59% year-over-year to 0.2; the TTM value through Aug 2025 reached 0.39, up 51.12%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.52, 98.25% up from the prior year.
  • FCF Payout Ratio for Q4 2024 was 0.2 at Cato, up from 2.99 in the prior quarter.
  • Over five years, FCF Payout Ratio peaked at 1.06 in Q1 2020 and troughed at 2.99 in Q3 2024.
  • A 5-year average of 0.4 and a median of 0.15 in 2023 define the central range for FCF Payout Ratio.
  • Biggest five-year swings in FCF Payout Ratio: plummeted 31251.97% in 2021 and later surged 356.45% in 2022.
  • Year by year, FCF Payout Ratio stood at 0.0 in 2020, then plummeted by 31251.97% to 1.18 in 2021, then crashed by 82.14% to 2.15 in 2022, then skyrocketed by 91.7% to 0.18 in 2023, then dropped by 9.59% to 0.2 in 2024.
  • Business Quant data shows FCF Payout Ratio for CATO at 0.2 in Q4 2024, 2.99 in Q3 2024, and 0.68 in Q2 2024.