Central Garden & Pet Company

CENTA·NasdaqGS·Consumer Defensive
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41.50+1.63 (+4.09%)today
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Key statistics

Previous close39.87
Open40.77
Day range40.4741.93
52-week range27.4141.93
Off day high−1.01%
Off 52-week high−1.01%
Volume788.22K
Avg. volume (3M)330.82K
Market cap2.60B
EPS (TTM)2.70
Forward P/E13.43
P/E ratio (TTM)15.37
Dividend yield—
Beta (5Y)0.53
Shares outstanding51.34M
Short interest3.45% of float
Earnings dateAug 5, 2026 (est.)
Analyst target46.25
Profit margin5.39%

Against its peers

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CENTA SECARE.ST 8BI.F POST FLO FRPT
Market cap 2.60B 3.12B 1.73B 3.73B 1.51B 3.43B
P/E (TTM) 15.4 36.1 19.1 15.4 26.3 28.3
Forward P/E 13.4 12.0 — 11.8 10.6 36.6
Price/book 1.5 0.4 2.0 1.2 1.1 2.9
Dividend yield — 1.47% 4.18% — 7.04% —
1-year change +40.34% −46.40% +110.61% −19.12% −39.06% +21.25%
Today +4.09% +2.74% −3.60% +2.08% +5.65% +2.43%

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The businesses closest to Central Garden & Pet's by what they do, from their descriptions, with the same industry weighted in.

Company Mkt cap Price Today
Swedencare AB (publ)SECARE.ST · Packaged Foods 3.12B 19.52 +2.74%
Health and Happiness (H&H) International Holdings Limited8BI.F · Packaged Foods 1.73B 2.6800 −3.60%
Post Holdings, Inc.POST · Packaged Foods 3.73B 84.85 +2.08%
Flowers Foods, Inc.FLO · Packaged Foods 1.51B 7.10 +5.65%
Freshpet, Inc.FRPT · Packaged Foods 3.43B 71.29 +2.43%
Darling Ingredients Inc.DAR · Packaged Foods 8.25B 52.30 −2.46%
Flex Foods LimitedFLEXFO.BO · Packaged Foods 632.96M 50.84 −3.29%
Feed One Co.,Ltd.2060.T · Packaged Foods 52.31B 1,367.00 +2.32%

Also based in Walnut Creek, California, then elsewhere in California.

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Mechanics BancorpMCHB · Walnut Creek, CA 3.33B 15.03 +1.90%
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NVIDIA CorporationNVDA · Santa Clara, CAOdds 4.83T 200.13 −3.17%
Apple Inc.AAPL · Cupertino, CAOdds 5.08T 349.51 +5.31%
Meta Platforms, Inc.META.BA · Menlo Park, CA 112.71T 44,080.00 +1.99%
Broadcom Inc.AVGOCL.SN · Palo Alto, CA 1,519.49T 318,310.00 0.00%
The Walt Disney CompanyDISN.BA · Burbank, CA 228.48T 16,540.00 +4.16%
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.AMD.BA · Santa Clara, CA 133.29T 81,650.00 +0.71%

The stocks whose daily moves over the past year went most closely with Central Garden & Pet's: the correlation of their daily returns, where 1 would be moving as one.

Company Mkt cap Price Today
First Merchants CorporationFRME · Correlation 0.50 2.63B 41.89 +2.07%
Nicolet Bankshares, Inc.NIC · Correlation 0.44 3.64B 175.24 +1.61%
City Holding CompanyCHCO · Correlation 0.43 2.03B 144.54 +1.11%
Mechanics BancorpMCHB · Correlation 0.40 3.33B 15.03 +1.90%
BayCom CorpBCML · Correlation 0.39 343.00M 31.41 +1.32%
BankUnited, Inc.BKU · Correlation 0.38 3.20B 44.96 +3.95%
PC Connection, Inc.CNXN · Correlation 0.37 2.22B 87.81 +0.31%
Flowers Foods, Inc.FLO · Correlation 0.35 1.51B 7.10 +5.65%

What visitors to Central Garden & Pet's page also look at.

Company Mkt cap Price Today
Central Garden & Pet CompanyCENT 3.03B 48.38 +4.38%
City Holding CompanyCHCO 2.03B 144.54 +1.11%
PC Connection, Inc.CNXN 2.22B 87.81 +0.31%
CorVel Corp.CRVL 4.41B 87.38 +5.74%
Seneca Foods Corp.SENEA 993.23M 146.70 −4.60%

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