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Central Garden & Pet Company

CENT Consumer Defensive Packaged Foods

Central Garden & Pet Company’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended September 2025) was $3.1 billion, down 2.23% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
−8.17%
EPS
−4.58%
Free cash flow
+25.1%
Total debt
+0.15%

Quarter to June 2026, against a year earlier

47.89 0.49 −1.01%
Market cap
$2.7B
P/E
17.7×
Fwd P/E
16.3×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
8/9
Altman Z
2.56
Beneish M
−2.73
Dividend safety
n/a
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Central Garden & Pet Company (CENT) Book value per share

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Central Garden & Pet Company's book value per share at the end of fiscal 2025 was 25.1×, up 5.98% from 23.7× in fiscal 2024. At the end of the quarter to 30 June 2026 it was 28.4×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 8.3× (fiscal 2015) to 25.1× (fiscal 2025) — the current reading is the highest in ten years. Central Garden & Pet Company ranks 10th of 68 Packaged Foods companies by book value per share.

Book value per share, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Book value per share Change
FY2025 25.1× 5.98%
FY2024 23.7× 6.85%
FY2023 22.2× 10.56%
FY2022 20.1× 10.51%
FY2021 18.2× 13.73%
FY2020 16.0× 13.71%
FY2019 14.0× (4.76%)
FY2018 14.7× 45.25%
FY2017 10.1× 11.99%
FY2016 9.1× 8.62%

Quarterly newest first

Period Book value per share Change
Jun 2026 28.4× 5.60%
Mar 2026 26.9× 4.90%
Dec 2025 25.7× 2.16%
Sep 2025 25.1× (2.11%)
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 8.3× High 25.1×
Ten-year median 16.0×
Current reading's percentile 100

Book value per share against peers

Company Book value per share
POST Post Holdings, Inc. compare 68.5×
JJSF J & J Snack Foods Corp. compare 47.7×
MZTI The Marzetti Company compare 38.6×
CENT Central Garden & Pet Company 28.4×
CENTA Central Garden & Pet Company compare 28.4×
FRPT Freshpet, Inc. compare 25.4×
NOMD Nomad Foods Limited compare 20.9×
UTZ Utz Brands, Inc. compare 14.8×
HLF Herbalife Ltd compare −3.8×

What Book value per share is

BV per Share tells an investor how much of a company’s accounting net worth stands behind each share.

(Shareholders Equity (Total) ÷ Shares (Basic, Weighted))

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