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Cato (CATO) Net Margin (2016 - 2025)

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

  • For Q4 2025, Net Margin rose 622.0% year-over-year to 4.09%; the TTM value through Nov 2025 reached 1.46%, up 264.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 2.78%, 60.0% up from the prior year.
  • Net Margin reached 4.09% in Q4 2025 per CATO's latest filing, down from 3.7% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Net Margin topped out at 9.81% in Q2 2021 and bottomed at 13.26% in Q1 2024.
  • Average Net Margin over 5 years is 0.66%, with a median of 0.56% recorded in 2022.
  • Peak YoY movement for Net Margin: surged 3802bps in 2021, then tumbled -1158bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Net Margin shows it stood at 5.0% in 2021, then plummeted by -152bps to 2.6% in 2022, then crashed by -47bps to 3.82% in 2023, then crashed by -170bps to 10.3% in 2024, then soared by 60bps to 4.09% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Net Margin were 4.09% in Q4 2025, 3.7% in Q3 2025, and 2.49% in Q2 2025.