Central Garden & Pet Company
General ticker "CENT" information:
- Sector: Consumer Staples
- Industry: Packaged Foods
- Capitalization: $2.2B (TTM average)
Central Garden & Pet Company follows the US Stock Market performance with the rate: 30.9%.
Estimated limits based on current volatility of 1.6%: low 42.88$, high 44.27$
Factors to consider:
- Total employees count: 6000 (-7.0%) as of 2025
- Top business risk factors: Economic downturns and volatility, Consumer spending decline, Customer concentration, Supply chain disruptions, Liquidity and credit risks
- Price in estimated range
- Earnings for 6 months up through Q2 exceed our estimates
Stock Forecast*
* forecast is subjective and experimental, should not be used for any investment decisions
Long term estimates were made for the period from 2025-09-27 to 2027-09-27
- 2025-09-27 to 2026-09-27 estimated range: [30.82$, 43.83$]
- 2026-09-27 to 2027-09-27 estimated range: [32.77$, 46.32$]
Financial Metrics affecting the CENT estimates:
- Positive: with PPE of 12.7 at the end of fiscal year the price was low
- Positive: Operating cash flow per share per price, % of 15.25 > 12.93
- Positive: 7.57 < Operating profit margin, % of 7.99
- Negative: Industry inventory ratio change (median), % of 0.53 > 0.28
- Negative: 42.57 < Shareholder equity ratio, % of 43.67 <= 64.23
- Negative: 0.74 < Interest expense per share per price, % of 2.65
- Negative: Investing cash flow per share per price, % of -2.06 <= -0.60
- Negative: Industry earnings per price (median), % of 0 <= 0
- Negative: Industry operating profit margin (median), % of -2.79 <= 2.87
- Positive: -0.03 < Industry operating cash flow per share per price (median), % of 3.03
- Positive: 1.77 < Return on assets ratio (scaled to [-100,100]) of 4.33
Short-term CENT quotes
Long-term CENT plot with estimates
Financial data
| YTD | 2023-09-30 | 2024-09-28 | 2025-09-27 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Revenue | $3,310.08MM | $3,200.46MM | $3,129.06MM |
| Operating Expenses | $3,099.44MM | $3,015.07MM | $2,879.02MM |
| Operating Income | $210.65MM | $185.39MM | $250.04MM |
| Non-Operating Income | $-48.20MM | $-42.96MM | $-33.29MM |
| Interest Expense | $57.02MM | $57.53MM | $57.70MM |
| Income(Loss) | $162.44MM | $142.43MM | $216.75MM |
| Taxes | $36.35MM | $33.11MM | $52.79MM |
| Net Income(Loss)* | $125.64MM | $107.98MM | $162.84MM |
| Stockholders Equity | $1,451.35MM | $1,555.65MM | $1,583.27MM |
| Inventory | $838.19MM | $757.94MM | $722.11MM |
| Assets | $3,378.65MM | $3,553.44MM | $3,625.64MM |
| Operating Cash Flow | $381.63MM | $394.89MM | $332.51MM |
| Capital expenditure | $53.97MM | $43.13MM | $41.42MM |
| Investing Cash Flow | $-34.58MM | $-105.19MM | $-44.89MM |
| Financing Cash Flow | $-37.55MM | $-25.44MM | $-156.64MM |
| Earnings Per Share** | $2.35 | $1.64 | $2.58 |
* Profit(Loss) attributable to entity.
** EPS are Split Adjusted, recent splits may be reflected with a delay.