Short interest in The Cato Corp (NYSE:CATO) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 462.39K to 463.20K. This put 2.7% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Cato gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Cato's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 98.35K shares traded per day, it would take 4.71 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.