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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.

  • Quarterly results put FCF Payout Ratio at 0.2 for Q4 2024, down 9.59% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Aug 2025 was 0.39 (up 51.12% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.52, up 98.25%.
  • FCF Payout Ratio for Q4 2024 was 0.2 at Cato, up from 2.99 in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, FCF Payout Ratio for CATO hit a ceiling of 1.06 in Q1 2020 and a floor of 2.99 in Q3 2024.
  • Median FCF Payout Ratio over the past 5 years was 0.15 (2023), compared with a mean of 0.4.
  • Biggest five-year swings in FCF Payout Ratio: crashed 31251.97% in 2021 and later skyrocketed 356.45% in 2022.
  • Cato's FCF Payout Ratio stood at 0.0 in 2020, then crashed by 31251.97% to 1.18 in 2021, then tumbled by 82.14% to 2.15 in 2022, then soared by 91.7% to 0.18 in 2023, then fell by 9.59% to 0.2 in 2024.
  • The last three reported values for FCF Payout Ratio were 0.2 (Q4 2024), 2.99 (Q3 2024), and 0.68 (Q2 2024) per Business Quant data.