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Central Garden & Pet Company (CENT)

US · Consumer Defensive · Packaged Foods

$44.07+1.43%
Last close · 2026-08-04

Latest quarter · ended 2026-03-31

Revenue
$906.2M
Revenue YoY
+8.7%
Net profit
$79.4M
Profit YoY
+24.8%
EPS
$1.29
EPS estimate
$1.10
Net margin
8.8%

EPS came in at 1.29 against a street estimate of 1.10 — a beat of 17.3%.

Key statistics

Market cap
$2.69B
P/E
15.7
Forward P/E
13.0
P/B
1.63
Book value
$26.43
EPS (TTM)
$2.75
52-week high
$45.78
52-week low
$28.77
50-day MA
$42.20
200-day MA
$36.67
Beta
0.52

Analyst view

Analysts rate Central Garden & Pet Company a buy (4 buy, 3 hold, 0 sell out of 7) with an average price target of $47.50.

Shareholding

Insiders
15.97%
Institutions
95.23%

Largest institutional holders

FundStake
BlackRock Inc2.57%
Vanguard Group Inc1.83%
Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC1.28%
Dimensional Fund Advisors, Inc.1.04%
Vanguard Portfolio Management, LLC0.87%
Vanguard Capital Management, LLC0.76%
Geode Capital Management, LLC0.73%
State Street Corp0.62%

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Data updated 2026-08-05.