Short interest in The Cato Corp (NYSE:CATO) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 471.32K to 462.39K. This put 2.69% 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 51.19K shares traded per day, it would take 9.03 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.