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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-019760"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000072333"
company_name: "NORDSTROM INC"
filed_at: "2025-03-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T16:21:40.449152+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nordstrom Q4 EPS $0.97 ($1.10 adj.), comparable sales +4.7%; CFO Cathy Smith to step down

## Summary
- Q4 net earnings $165M, EPS $0.97; adjusted EPS $1.10 excluding privatization fees and accelerated tech depreciation.
- Total company comparable sales +4.7% vs realigned 13-week quarter; Nordstrom banner +5.3%, Rack +3.5%.
- FY2024 net earnings $294M, EPS $1.74; adjusted EPS $2.17 on adjusted EBIT of $593M (4.1% of sales).
- CFO Cathy Smith to step down after Form 10-K filing; company has initiated a comprehensive search for a successor.
- Quarterly dividend of $0.19 per share declared, payable March 26, 2025 to holders of record March 11.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-019760
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000072333
- company_name: NORDSTROM INC
- filed_at: 2025-03-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72333/000121390025019760/0001213900-25-019760-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72333/000121390025019760/ea0232902-8k_nord.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-25-019760.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Catherine R. Smith departed as Chief Financial Officer at NORDSTROM INC.
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On February 27, 2025, Catherine R. Smith, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, informed the Company of her intention to step down from her role following the filing of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 1, 2025, anticipated to be within the next month.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72333/000121390025019760/0001213900-25-019760-index.htm

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