Cato (CATO) FCF Payout Ratio (2010 - 2024)

Cato's FCF Payout Ratio history runs 15 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 0.2 for Q4 2024.

• In Q4 2024, FCF Payout Ratio rose 85.81% year-over-year to 0.2; the TTM figure through Aug 2025 stood at 0.21 (up 85.6% YoY), while the FY2025 annual figure was 0.38, up 98.73% from the prior year.
• FCF Payout Ratio was 0.2 for Q4 2024 at Cato, up from 2.99 in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, FCF Payout Ratio ranged from a high of 1.06 in Q1 2020 to a low of 2.99 in Q3 2024.
• Historically, FCF Payout Ratio has averaged 0.44 across 5 years, with a median of 0.2 in 2024.
• The sharpest annual moves came in 2021 and 2022: FCF Payout Ratio plunged 31251.97% in 2021, then surged 356.45% in 2022.
• A 5-year view of FCF Payout Ratio shows it stood at 0.0 in 2020, then slumped by 31251.97% to 1.18 in 2021, then tumbled by 82.14% to 2.15 in 2022, then surged by 35.92% to 1.38 in 2023, then surged by 85.81% to 0.2 in 2024.
• The last three FCF Payout Ratio figures came in at 0.2 (Q4 2024), 2.99 (Q3 2024), and 0.68 (Q2 2024), per Business Quant data.