What is CATO CORP (CATO)'s fair-value range?

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How is CATO CORP (CATO)'s fair value calculated?

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What is CATO CORP (CATO)'s PE ratio versus its industry?

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Fair value · CATO CORP (CATO) · updated 2026-10-04 · from 10-K FY2026

CATO trades at $2.40. That price implies 68.9× EV/EBITDA and a 0.9% free-cash-flow yield.

Cboe · delayed 15 min · as of 03:43 ET

Are those assumptions reasonable? Use CATO’s filed growth history and the AI chat to decide, then set your own inputs below — the range you build is yours.

What the price implies

EV/EBITDA: 68.9×
FCF yield: 0.9%

Prices and market caps: Cboe delayed data, at least 15 minutes delayed. Not real-time. Fundamentals from company filings. This price: Cboe · delayed 15 min · as of 03:43 ET.

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The filing behind these numbers

CATO CORP

Revenue: $653.8M
Diluted EPS: $-0.31
Free cash flow: $-5.2M; operating cash flow − capital expenditure
Diluted shares: 18.8M; weighted average

10-K FY2026 · fiscal year ended 2026-01-31 · filed 2026-03-25 · accession 0001562762-26-000041

Trailing-twelve-month EPS also uses the quarterly 10-Qs through Q2 FY2027 (filed 2026-08-27).

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Fair Value Summary

Daily Price — CATO

$2.40 -47.6% (1Y)

Range implied by today’s price2 of 7 methods

$2.40 – $2.40

Price $2.40

Bear $2.40Base $2.40Bull $2.40

Range with preset inputs

No preset range for this company yet.

Every method that could be solved backwards opens on the assumption today’s price makes, so the top range sits on the price — that is arithmetic, not a view. Change any input and it becomes yours.

We don’t tell you what CATO is worth. Every tab OPENS on what today’s price implies for that method’s key assumption; you decide whether that assumption is reasonable — the growth matrix has CATO’s filed history and the AI chat will reason it through with you — and the range you build is yours. Our presets are filed history and reference settings, never a recommendation.

Discounted cash flow

N/A

Starting free cash flow is not positive; the model has nothing to grow.

Preset inputs — revenue-driven DCF from the latest filing

• Starting free cash flow is not positive; the model has nothing to grow.

Implied by today’s price

Starting free cash flow is not positive; the model has nothing to grow, so no growth rate reaches the price.

Not solvable from the price — Starting free cash flow is not positive; the model has nothing to grow, so no growth rate reaches the price. Showing preset inputs.

This method has no key input to read out of the price. The others below do, and you set them yourself: the growth matrix shows what CATO has actually filed, and the AI chat will reason it through with you.

Your inputs

Free cash flow grows at your stage-1 rate, then your stage-2 rate, then a terminal rate; everything is discounted at your WACC.

Stage-1 growth5.0%

Yearly free-cash-flow growth for the first stage. Starts below zero so a shrinking-cash-flow case — and the rate today’s price implies — can be set.

-20.0%60.0%

Stage-1 years5 yrs

How long stage-1 growth lasts.

1 yrs10 yrs

Stage-2 growth2.5%

Slower growth after stage 1, before the terminal phase.

-20.0%30.0%

Stage-2 years5 yrs

0 yrs10 yrs

Terminal growth2.5%

Growth forever after the two stages. Above ~3% is rarely justified.

0.0%5.0%

Discount rate (WACC)4.12%

The return you require. Default is the WACC EvidInvest computed for this company. Higher discount rate, lower value.

3.00%15.00%

Net debt ($M)Debt minus cash, from the balance sheet. Subtracted from enterprise value.

Starting FCF ($M)Latest free cash flow from the filing (operating cash flow minus capex).

Shares (M)Diluted shares, from the filing.

Year by year (two-stage model, $M)

PV explicit $-51M · PV terminal $-305M · EV $-356M · equity $-490M

Year	Stage	FCF	Present value
1	Stage 1	$-5M	$-5M
2	Stage 1	$-6M	$-5M
3	Stage 1	$-6M	$-5M
4	Stage 1	$-6M	$-5M
5	Stage 1	$-6M	$-5M
6	Stage 2	$-7M	$-5M
7	Stage 2	$-7M	$-5M
8	Stage 2	$-7M	$-5M
9	Stage 2	$-7M	$-5M
10	Stage 2	$-7M	$-5M

Inputs from the filing

Free cash flow: $1.6M; sum of the last four quarters
EBIT: $-12.7M; latest annual
Shares: 19.0M
Total debt: $150.4M
Cash: $16.8M
Net debt: $133.7M; debt − cash

10-K FY2026 · period ended 2026-01-31 · filed 2026-03-25 · accession 0001562762-26-000041 · sec.gov

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CATO trades at $2.40. That price implies 68.9× EV/EBITDA and a 0.9% free-cash-flow yield.

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