THE CATO CORPORATION: basic earnings per share

What this measure means

Reported earnings or loss per basic common share or unit. Inspect attribution, share classes and restatements before comparing periods. This is not a market return.

Exact concept: us-gaap:EarningsPerShareBasic. Each value covers an annual-duration reporting interval, shown with both start and end dates. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.

Coverage of this history

Selected reporting periods run from 2009-02-01 to 2026-01-31. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-19.

Reading these values

This selected numerical history matches Diluted earnings per share for the same reporting intervals and original units. The accounting definitions remain distinct. Equal values do not establish that the concepts are interchangeable or explain why they match; filing dates and accessions may differ. Compare the definitions and source filings before combining them.

Selected filing history

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• THE CATO CORPORATION: capital expenditure payments
• THE CATO CORPORATION: revenue
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• THE CATO CORPORATION: investing cash flow
• THE CATO CORPORATION: retained earnings or deficit
• THE CATO CORPORATION: basic weighted-average shares
• THE CATO CORPORATION: diluted weighted-average shares
• THE CATO CORPORATION: diluted earnings per share
• THE CATO CORPORATION: income tax expense or benefit
• THE CATO CORPORATION: net property, plant and equipment
• THE CATO CORPORATION: share-based compensation expense
• THE CATO CORPORATION: operating income or loss
• THE CATO CORPORATION: current assets
• THE CATO CORPORATION: interest expense
• THE CATO CORPORATION: current liabilities
• THE CATO CORPORATION: current accounts payable
• THE CATO CORPORATION: common-stock repurchase payments
• THE CATO CORPORATION: net inventory
• THE CATO CORPORATION: selling, general and administrative expense

Inspect the source

Entity

THE CATO CORPORATION / CIK 0000018255

Captured

2026-09-19T14:44:48.998Z

SEC response SHA-256

27fc6f288357a9cbe9f901c2ac6128d8da5dd214e606bb6d8b99051520ecf758

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Latest-filed annual-report facts per unit and reporting period at capture time. Duration facts cover 300 to 400 days. This selection can include restatements and is not a point-in-time backtest dataset. Missing concepts are omitted, never zero-filled. Values retain original units and are not currency converted. Extended concepts require compatible unit shapes and at least three reporting ends with changing values within one unit. Constant or incompatible added histories are omitted.

Public company accounting reference, not market prices, returns, an investment recommendation, or ALPHAC performance. Validate a separately constructed return series with the validation API; accounting values are not returns.

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A financial period ends before its results become public. Use the filing date as a minimum availability boundary, inspect amendments, and retain the original filing vintage when testing historical signals. This latest-filed selection can contain information unavailable at the time.

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import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0000018255.json") as response:
    record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
    print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))