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Cato (CATO) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Cato (CATO) has 16 years of Return on Sales data on record, last reported at 0.04% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales rose 6.0% year-over-year to 0.04%; the TTM value through Nov 2025 reached 0.01%, up 3.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.03%, 1.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales reached 0.04% in Q4 2025 per CATO's latest filing, down from 0.04% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 0.1% in Q2 2021 and bottomed at 0.13% in Q1 2024.
  • Average Return on Sales over 5 years is 0.01%, with a median of 0.01% recorded in 2024.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: soared 38bps in 2021, then fell -12bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.05% in 2021, then plummeted by -152bps to 0.03% in 2022, then crashed by -47bps to 0.04% in 2023, then crashed by -170bps to 0.1% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 60bps to 0.04% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Sales were 0.04% in Q4 2025, 0.04% in Q3 2025, and 0.02% in Q2 2025.