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Central Garden & Pet Co
Central Garden & Pet Co (CENTA) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Packaged Foods, part of the Consumer Defensive sector. It is headquartered in Walnut Creek, United States and has 6,000 employees. The company is worth $2.43B and trades at 13.7x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 18.2x. Revenue was $3.13B in fiscal 2025, down 2.2% from the year before. Net income was $162.84M. The share price is 4.9% below its 52-week high of $40.80. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Two Sigma (Two Sigma Investments), at $22.64M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +4.4% over 5Y.
today you would have $979.71▼ -2.0%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
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| Year-end price | $29.19 | $33.05 | $35.23 | $28.64 | $38.28 | $29.06 | $23.49 | $25.00 | $30.17 | $24.72 | $10.88 | $7.64 | $5.40 | $8.38 | $6.66 | $7.90 | $7.95 | |
| P/E |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 7.7% a year plus a 0.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 18.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 17.8 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 7.7% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 11.4x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Consumer Defensive, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWLNewell Brands Inc | $5.73 | — | 1.0x | 4.89% | -8.59% | $2.44B |
| ANDEAndersons, Inc. | $65.10 | 12.7x | 1.7x | 1.23% | 12.16% | $2.21B |
| MHMcGraw Hill, Inc. | $13.98 | 29.1x | 3.4x | 0.00% | 17.30% | $2.67B |
| DAOYoudao, Inc. | $18.16 |
| 17.8x |
| 11.4x |
| 20.4x |
| 18.7x |
| 12.8x |
| 17.4x |
| 16.5x |
| 18.2x |
| 13.5x |
| 24.8x |
| 35.5x |
| 21.3x |
| 53.1x |
| — |
| 23.8x |
| 16.6x |
| 14.1x |
| 10.6x |
| P/S | 0.6x | 0.6x | 0.7x | 0.7x | 0.6x | 0.8x | 0.7x | 0.7x | 0.8x | 1.0x | 0.9x | 0.4x | 0.3x | 0.2x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.4x |
| P/B | 1.4x | 1.2x | 1.4x | 1.6x | 1.5x | 2.2x | 1.8x | 1.7x | 1.8x | 3.1x | 2.9x | 1.3x | 1.0x | 0.7x | 1.1x | 1.0x | 1.2x | 1.3x |
| EPS | $2.55 | $1.62 | $1.88 | $2.24 | $2.20 | $1.76 | $1.29 | $1.86 | $1.22 | $0.70 | $0.51 | $0.14 | -$0.03 | $0.35 | $0.40 | $0.56 | $0.75 |
| Profit margin | 3.80% | 5.20% | 3.37% | 3.80% | 4.56% | 4.59% | 4.48% | 3.89% | 5.58% | 3.84% | 2.43% | 1.94% | 0.55% | -0.12% | 1.25% | 1.74% | 3.01% | 4.09% |
| ROE | 8.66% | 10.29% | 6.94% | 8.66% | 11.41% | 12.42% | 11.21% | 9.32% | 12.98% | 12.40% | 8.05% | 6.33% | 1.82% | -0.41% | 4.56% | 6.20% | 8.64% | 12.05% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+57.2% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 0.00% |
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| $2.19B |
| PRDOPERDOCEO EDUCATION Corp | $33.82 | 12.3x | 2.0x | 2.01% | 17.55% | $2.12B |
| TRTootsie Roll Industries Inc | $37.19 | 29.5x | 2.9x | 0.97% | 10.34% | $2.8B |