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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) Debt to equity

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Central Garden & Pet Company's debt to equity at the end of the quarter to 30 June 2026 was 0.7×, down 0.1× from fiscal 2025 (0.8×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.6× (fiscal 2017) to 1.0× (fiscal 2021); the current reading is higher than 55% of that period. That is above the Packaged Foods industry median of 0.2× and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 0.2×.

Debt to equity, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
FY2025 0.8× (1.60%)
FY2024 0.8× (6.58%)
FY2023 0.8× (8.00%)
FY2022 0.9× (8.27%)
FY2021 1.0× 50.48%
FY2020 0.6× (7.44%)
FY2019 0.7× (4.21%)
FY2018 0.7× 16.97%
FY2017 0.6× (12.87%)
FY2016 0.7× (9.09%)

Quarterly newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
Jun 2026 0.7× (5.38%)
Mar 2026 0.7× (4.59%)
Dec 2025 0.8× 0.61%
Sep 2025 0.8× 0.39%
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.6× High 1.0×
Ten-year median 0.8×
Current reading's percentile 55

Debt to equity against peers

Company Debt to equity
HLF Herbalife Ltd compare −4.8×
JJSF J & J Snack Foods Corp. compare 0.0×
MZTI The Marzetti Company compare 0.2×
FRPT Freshpet, Inc. compare 0.3×
UTZ Utz Brands, Inc. compare 0.6×
CENTA Central Garden & Pet Company compare 0.7×
CENT Central Garden & Pet Company 0.7×
NOMD Nomad Foods Limited compare 0.9×
POST Post Holdings, Inc. compare 2.5×
Packaged Foods industry median 0.2×
Consumer Defensive sector median 0.2×
Market median 0.1×

What Debt to equity is

Debt to Equity Ratio shows how much a company relies on borrowed money compared with the money its shareholders have in the business.

(Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt) ÷ Shareholders Equity (Total)

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