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Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity

2021-03-29 compared with 2020-03-27 · 73 added, 27 removed, 44 unchanged (69% of the section changed)

Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of

Market for Registrant’s

Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters

and Issuer Purchases of

Equity Securities:

Market & Dividend Information

The Company’s Class A Common Stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the symbol CATO.

As of March 27, 2020, the approximate number of record holders of the Company’s Class A Common Stock was 5,000 and there were 2 record holders of the Company’s Class B Common Stock.

The Company’s

Class A Common Stock

trades on the

Stock Exchange (“NYSE”)

the symbol CATO.

As of March 29, 2021, the approximate number of record holders of the Company’s Class A Common

Stock was 5,000 and there were 2 record holders of the Company’s Class B Common Stock.

Stock Performance Graph

The following graph compares the yearly change in the Company’s cumulative total shareholder return on the Company’s Common Stock (which includes Class A Stock and Class B Stock) for each of the Company’s last five fiscal years with (i), the Dow Jones U.S.

Retailers, Apparel Index and (ii) the Russell 2000 Index.

THE CATO CORPORATION

The following

graph compares

the Company’s

cumulative total

return on the

Company’s Common Stock

(which includes Class

Class B Stock)

the Company’s

Retailers, Apparel

Russell 2000 Index.

STOCK PERFOMANCE TABLE

(BASE 100 – IN DOLLARS)

LAST TRADING DAY OF THE FISCAL YEAR

THE CATO CORPORATION

LAST TRADING DAY

OF THE FISCAL YEAR

DOW JONES U.S.

RETAILERS, APPL INDEX

The graph assumes an initial investment of $100 on January 30, 2015, the last trading day prior to the commencement of the Company’s 2015 fiscal year, and that all dividends were reinvested.

The graph assumes an initial investment of $100 on January 29, 2016,

the last trading day prior to the

commencement of the Company’s 2016 fiscal year, and that all dividends were reinvested.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

The following table summarizes the Company’s purchases of its common stock for the three months ended February 1, 2020:

The following table summarizes the Company’s purchases of its common stock for the three months

ended January 30, 2021:

Total Number of

11 unchanged sentences

December 2020

Prices include trading costs.

During the fourth quarter ended February 1, 2020, the Company repurchased and retired 335,100 shares under this program for approximately $5,390,314 or an average market price of $16.09 per share.

As of the fourth quarter ended February 1, 2020, the Company had 1,346,522 shares remaining in open authorizations.

There is no specified expiration date for the Company’s repurchase program.

Prices include

During the fourth quarter ended January 30,

2021, the Company repurchased and retired 320,707

shares under this program for

approximately

or an average market

price of $7.09 per

in the Company’s

the fourth quarter

ended January 30,

had 1,871,149 shares remaining

in open authorizations.

There is no specified expiration

the Company’s

Selected Financial Data

Certain selected financial data for the five fiscal years ended February 1, 2020 have been derived

from the Company’s audited financial statements.

The financial statements and Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm’s integrated audit reports for the most recent fiscal years are contained elsewhere in this report.

All data set forth below are qualified by reference to, and should be read in conjunction with, the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements (including the Notes thereto) and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” appearing elsewhere in this annual report.

Certain selected

financial data

from the Company’s

audited financial statements.

The financial statements

and Independent Registered

Public Accounting Firm’s integrated audit reports for the

most recent fiscal years are contained elsewhere

are qualified by

reference to,

in conjunction

Company’s Consolidated

Financial Statements

(including the

Notes thereto)

“Management’s Discussion

Condition and

Operations” appearing

elsewhere in this annual report.

Fiscal Year (1)

(Dollars in thousands, except per share data and selected operating data)

STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS DATA:

OF OPERATIONS DATA:

Other revenue

6 unchanged sentences

Interest and other income

Income before income taxes

Income tax expense

Basic earnings per share

Diluted earnings per share

Income (loss) before income taxes

tax expense (benefit)

Net income (loss)

Basic earnings (loss) per share

Diluted earnings (loss) per share

Cash dividends paid per share

3 unchanged sentences

Average sales per square foot of selling space

BALANCE SHEET DATA (at period end):

BALANCE SHEET DATA (at

Cash, cash equivalents, short-term

4 unchanged sentences

(1) The fiscal year 2017 contained 53 weeks versus 52 weeks for all other years shown.

(2) Calculated using actual sales volume for stores open for the full year and an estimated annual sales volume for new stores opened during the year.

(2) Calculated using actual sales volume for stores open for the full year and an estimated annual sales volume for new

stores opened

during the year.

(3) Calculated using Total Current Assets offset by Total Current Liabilities.

(4) In 2019, we adopted ASC 842, which required us to recognize lease assets and lease liabilities for most leases.

Years before 2019 have not been adjusted for this new accounting standard.

Years before 2019

have not been adjusted for this new accounting standard.

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Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity