---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001562762-25-000052"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CATO"
cik: "0000018255"
company_name: "CATO CORP"
filed_at: "2025-03-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T06:51:30.538872+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cato Q4 net loss $14.1M ($0.74 EPS); full-year loss $18.1M; sales down 10%

## Summary
- Q4 net loss $14.1M ($0.74 diluted EPS) vs loss $23.4M ($1.14) in prior year Q4.
- Full-year fiscal 2024 net loss $18.1M ($0.97 EPS) vs loss $23.9M ($1.17) in 2023.
- Q4 sales $155.3M, down 10% from $172.1M; same-store sales down 0.8% on comparable 13-week basis.
- Gross margin declined to 28.0% in Q4 from 31.0% due to markdowns, higher distribution/freight costs.
- Eliminated ~40 corporate positions in Feb 2025; plans to open up to 15 stores, close up to 50 in 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001562762-25-000052
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CATO
- cik: 0000018255
- company_name: CATO CORP
- filed_at: 2025-03-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18255/000156276225000052/0001562762-25-000052-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18255/000156276225000052/cato-20250320.htm

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