The Cato (The Cato) Net Cash per Share

The Cato Annual Data
	Trend	Jan15	Jan16	Jan17	Jan18	Jan19	Jan20	Jan21	Jan22	Jan23	Jan24
Net Cash per Share							-6.43	-8.89	-9.90	-9.66	-9.31

The Cato Quarterly Data
	Apr19	Jul19	Oct19	Jan20	Apr20	Jul20	Oct20	Jan21	Apr21	Jul21	Oct21	Jan22	Apr22	Jul22	Oct22	Jan23	Apr23	Jul23	Oct23	Jan24
Net Cash per Share																-9.66	-8.91	-7.23	-7.36	-9.31

For the Apparel Retail subindustry, The Cato's Price-to-Net-Cash, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Net-Cash data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, The Cato's Price-to-Net-Cash distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where The Cato's Price-to-Net-Cash falls into.

The Cato Net Cash per Share Calculation

In the calculation of a company's Net Cash per Share, assets other than cash and short term investments are considered to be worth nothing. But the company has to pay its debt and other liabilities in full. This is an extremely conservative way of valuation. Most companies have negative Net Cash per Share. But sometimes a company's price may be lower than its net-cash.

The Cato's Net Cash per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

The Cato's Net Cash per Share for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

The Cato  (NYSE:CATO) Net Cash per Share Explanation

Ben Graham invested in situations where the company's stock price was lower than its net-cash. He assigned some value to the company's other current asset. The value is called Net Current Asset Value (NCAV). One research study, covering the years 1970 through 1983 showed that portfolios picked at the beginning of each year, and held for one year, returned 29.4 percent, on average, over the 13-year period, compared to 11.5 percent for the S&P 500 Index. Other studies of Graham's strategy produced similar results.

You can find companies that are traded below their Net Current Asset Value (NCAV) with our Net-Net screener.

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