secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     CATO CORP (CATO)
CIK:        0000018255
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-11-24T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001562762-25-000275
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.65
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Cato narrows Q3 loss to $5.2M on 10% same-store sales growth
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- Net loss of $5.2M ($0.28 per share) vs $15.1M loss ($0.79) in prior year Q3.
- Sales up 6% to $153.7M; same-store sales increased 10%.
- Gross margin improved to 32.0% from 28.8%; SG&A down $0.9M to $57.0M.
- Year-to-date net income $5.0M ($0.25) vs loss of $4.0M ($0.24) in prior year.
- Store count 1,101 as of Nov 1, 2025, down 66 stores YoY; CEO cautious on Q4.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18255/000156276225000275/0001562762-25-000275-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18255/000156276225000275/cato-20251120.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001562762-25-000275

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