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Cato Corp. – ‘10-Q’ for 10/31/20 – ‘EX-101.PRE’

On:  Tuesday, 11/24/20, at 4:52pm ET   ·   For:  10/31/20   ·   Accession #:  18255-20-42   ·   File #:  1-31340

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

11/24/20  Cato Corp.                        10-Q       10/31/20   62:7.2M

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML    949K 
 2: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02 -- exhibit311        HTML     40K 
 3: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02 -- exhibit312        HTML     39K 
 4: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02 -- exhibit321        HTML     23K 
 5: EX-32.2     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02 -- exhibit322        HTML     22K 
12: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     73K 
13: R2          Condensed Consolidated Income Statements Of Income  HTML     83K 
                and Comprehensive Income                                         
14: R3          Condensed Consolidated Income Statements Of Income  HTML     21K 
                and Comprehensive Income (Parenthetical)                         
15: R4          Consolidated Balance Sheets                         HTML    107K 
16: R5          Consolidated Balance Sheets (Parentheticals)        HTML     35K 
17: R6          Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows               HTML    100K 
18: R7          Consolidated Statement of Stockholders' Equity      HTML     77K 
19: R8          Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity     HTML     34K 
                (Parentheticals)                                                 
20: R9          General - Notes to Financial Statements             HTML     31K 
21: R10         Earnings Per Share - Notes to Financial Statements  HTML     70K 
22: R11         Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income              HTML    142K 
23: R12         Financing Arrangements - Notes to Financial         HTML     21K 
                Statements                                                       
24: R13         Reportable Segment Information - Notes to           HTML    100K 
                Financial Statements                                             
25: R14         Stock Based Compensation - Notes to Financial       HTML     44K 
                Statements                                                       
26: R15         Fair Value Measurements - Notes to Financial        HTML    185K 
                Statements                                                       
27: R16         Recent Accounting Pronouncements - Notes to         HTML     20K 
                Financial Statements                                             
28: R17         Income Tax - Notes to the Financial Statements      HTML     24K 
29: R18         Income Taxes                                        HTML     24K 
30: R19         Commitments and Contingencies - Notes to the        HTML     22K 
                Financial Statements                                             
31: R20         Revenue Recognition Footnote                        HTML     32K 
32: R21         Leases - Notes to the Financial Statements          HTML     80K 
33: R22         Earnings Per Share - (Tables)                       HTML     67K 
34: R23         Changes in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income   HTML    141K 
                (Tables)                                                         
35: R24         Reportable Segment Information - (Tables)           HTML     93K 
36: R25         Sechedule Of Restricted Stock Outstanding -         HTML     28K 
                (Tables)                                                         
37: R26         Stock Option Changes - (Tables)                     HTML     30K 
38: R27         Fair Value Measurements - Assets at Fairvalue -     HTML    142K 
                (Tables)                                                         
39: R28         Fair Value Measurments - Level 3 Roll (Tables)      HTML     58K 
40: R29         Revenue Recognition (Tables)                        HTML     26K 
41: R30         Leases - (Tables)                                   HTML     83K 
42: R31         General - Notes to Financial Statements -           HTML     35K 
                (Details)                                                        
43: R32         Earnings Per Share - (Details)                      HTML     53K 
44: R33         Changes in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income   HTML     38K 
                (Details)                                                        
45: R34         Changes in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income   HTML     27K 
                Components - (Details)                                           
46: R35         Financing Arrangements - (Details)                  HTML     21K 
47: R36         Reportable Segment Information - (Details)          HTML     48K 
48: R37         Direct Expenses of Credit Segment in SGA -          HTML     27K 
                (Details)                                                        
49: R38         Stock Based Compensation - Plans - (Details)        HTML     25K 
50: R39         Sechedule Of Restricted Stock Outstanding -         HTML     44K 
                (Details)                                                        
51: R40         Stock Based Compensation Additional - (Details)     HTML     35K 
52: R41         Fair Value Measurements - Assets at Fairvalue -     HTML     84K 
                (Details)                                                        
53: R42         Fair Value Measurements - Level 3 Roll - (Details)  HTML     42K 
54: R43         Income Tax (Details)                                HTML     19K 
55: R44         Effective Tax Rate (Details)                        HTML     19K 
56: R45         Revenue Recognition Disclosure Table - (Details)    HTML     22K 
57: R46         Revenue Recognition Cato Credit Card - (Details)    HTML     20K 
58: R47         Leases - (Details)                                  HTML     54K 
60: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML    106K 
11: XML         XBRL Instance -- cato20qtr3q_htm                     XML   2.04M 
59: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     66K 
 7: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- cato-20201031_cal               XML    164K 
 8: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- cato-20201031_def                XML    377K 
 9: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- cato-20201031_lab                     XML    936K 
10: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- cato-20201031_pre              XML    779K 
 6: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- cato-20201031                         XSD    113K 
61: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks              279±   402K 
62: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0000018255-20-000042-xbrl      Zip    153K

‘EX-101.PRE’   —   XBRL Presentations — cato-20201031_pre

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