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CATO

Name: CATO CORP (CATO) insider trading and ownership data
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CATO CORP

WHOLESALE & RETAIL · RETAIL-WOMEN'S CLOTHING STORES · CIK 0000018255

SEC FILINGS☆ WATCH

INSIDER NET · 180D

open-market buys minus sells, Form 4 codes P and S

INSIDER BUYERS · 180D

CONGRESS BUYERS · 1Y

FUNDS ADDED · QTR

13F, latest reported quarter

REVENUE GROWTH

+0.7%

XBRL, annual

NET MARGIN

-0.9%

SEVEN FACTS, RANKED AGAINST THE SECTOR · RANK IS NOT A FORECAST

INSIDERS

no Form 4 purchases or sales on file

CONGRESS

no member of Congress has reported trading it

FUNDS

16 funds added or opened last quarter

below 79% of Wholesale & Retail

REVENUE

+0.7% year over year

below 61% of Wholesale & Retail

MARGIN

-0.9% net margin

below 66% of Wholesale & Retail

BUYBACKS

$422.0K repurchased, FY to 2026-08-01

below 93% of Wholesale & Retail

SHORT

2.9 days to cover · settled 2026-07-31

The year, with the filings on it

Total return indexed to 100 over the last 12 months · every marker is a federal filing, placed at its date — hover any marker for the detail

TOTAL 12M RETURN -40.2%

-40.2%12M

INDEXED RETURN, DIVIDEND-ADJUSTED — NOT A PRICE CHART · LARGE TRADES DRAWN FIRST WHEN A NAME FILES HEAVILY

Live price

Daily candles from TradingView, on their licence — no filings are marked on this one

WHY THIS NAME IS ON THE DESK

The complete filing record, in one place.

The record shows 16 funds added last quarter. Every figure is a federal filing, dated the day it became public.

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Same sector, ranked by filing activity

Sector from the SEC's own SIC classification

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Insider transactions

Form 4 purchases and sales (codes P and S) — grants, option exercises and preferred conversions excluded

No insider purchases or sales are on record for CATO CORP in the period covered. Source: SEC Form 4 filings, as of 2026-09-04.

INSIDER

FILED

VALUE

PATRICK BAILEY W

Director

SELL

2023-11-17

2,800.0

$19.2K

PATRICK BAILEY W

Director

SELL

2023-11-17

200.0

$1.4K

CATO JOHN P D

CHAIRMAN/PRESIDENT/CEO

BUY

2022-11-25

3,000.0

$31.1K

PATRICK BAILEY W

Director

BUY

2021-11-22

3,000.0

$49.8K

4 TRANSACTIONS ON RECORD · THIN RECORD, READ IT AS SUCH

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Institutional holders

13F · holdings as of the latest quarter funds have reported

Aldebaran Capital, LLC

1,169,986.0 sh

$3.8M

Peapod Lane Capital LLC

778,940.0 sh

$2.5M

VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC

711,699.0 sh

$2.3M

RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC

561,950.0 sh

$1.8M

DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP

468,532.0 sh

$1.5M

SCHEDULE 13D/G

No 5%+ ownership filings

Nobody has crossed 5% with a filing obligation. Absence is a fact here, not missing data.

FORM 144

No planned-sale notices

No insider has notified an intent to sell. This is the panel to watch after a run-up.

Fund concentration

N-PORT · funds ranked by how much of THEMSELVES they put in this stock — the conviction number 13F cannot show

Ultra-Small Company Fund

$197.3K POSITION · AS OF 2026-03-31

0.2%

Ultra-Small Company Market Fund

$62.3K POSITION · AS OF 2026-03-31

0.1%

GMO U.S. Small Cap Value Fund

$6.6K POSITION · AS OF 2026-02-28

0.0%

EA Bridgeway Omni Small-Cap Value ETF

$141.5K POSITION · AS OF 2026-03-31

0.0%

iShares Micro-Cap ETF

$105.7K POSITION · AS OF 2026-03-31

0.0%

1290 VT Micro Cap Portfolio

$8.8K POSITION · AS OF 2026-03-31

0.0%

SEC N-PORT, MONTHLY WITH A ~60-DAY PUBLIC LAG · FUNDS ≥ $10M · % = SHARE OF THE FUND'S OWN BOOK

Executive pay vs shareholder return · John P. D. Cato

DEF 14A pay-versus-performance disclosure · both the headline pay and the SEC's mark-to-market figure, beside the return the company delivered and the return of the peer group it chose itself

CEO TOTAL

ACTUALLY PAID

OTHER NEOs AVG

TSR

PEER TSR

2025

$1.5M

$1.3M

$466.3K

-65%

+109%

2024

$2.4M

$1.9M

$556.7K

-61%

+73%

2023

$2.9M

$2.4M

$581.3K

-29%

+35%

2022

$3.2M

$2.4M

$495.2K

-4%

+21%

2021

$5.5M

$6.4M

$714.4K

+49%

+11%

TAGGED BY THE COMPANY UNDER SEC ITEM 402(v) · RETURN IS CUMULATIVE FROM THE START OF THE DISCLOSURE PERIOD · GREEN WHERE THE COMPANY BEAT ITS OWN PEER GROUP

Fundamentals

Annual figures from XBRL filings · pick a past date to see them exactly as the market knew them then — restatements and all

	2026-01	2025-02	2024-02	2023-01
REVENUE	$646.8M	$642.1M	$700.3M	$752.4M
OPERATING INCOME	$-12.7M	$-26.4M	$-17.9M	$-3.6M
NET INCOME	$-5.9M	$-18.1M	$-23.9M	$29.0K
EPS (DILUTED)	-0.31	-0.97	-1.17	0.00
OPERATING CASH FLOW	$-1.5M	$-19.7M	$477.0K	$13.4M
CASH	$16.8M	$20.3M	$23.9M	$20.0M
BUYBACKS	$995.0K	$3.9M	$2.6M	$15.2M
DIVIDENDS PAID	$0	$10.5M	$14.0M	$14.4M

SEC XBRL · FISCAL-YEAR PERIODS · AS KNOWN ON 2026-09-04 · NOBODY ELSE SHOWS FUNDAMENTALS AS OF A PAST DATE