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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) EV/EBITDA

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As of 5 November 2026, Central Garden & Pet Company (CENT) trades at a EV/EBITDA of 9.3×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 6.0× (July 2015) to 13.4× (June 2018); the current reading is higher than 41% of that period. That is above the Packaged Foods industry median of 8.3× and in line with the Consumer Defensive sector median of 9.5×.

EV/EBITDA, daily

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Annual newest first

Period EV/EBITDA Change
FY2025 6.9× (28.08%)
FY2024 9.7× (1.51%)
FY2023 9.8× 16.53%
FY2022 8.4× (15.67%)
FY2021 10.0× 17.82%
FY2020 8.5× (4.97%)
FY2019 8.9× (5.55%)
FY2018 9.4× (17.35%)
FY2017 11.4× 26.92%
FY2016 9.0× 6.78%

Quarterly newest first

Period EV/EBITDA Change
Jun 2026 8.7× 8.00%
Mar 2026 8.0× 7.64%
Dec 2025 7.5× 7.27%
Sep 2025 6.9× (14.23%)
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 6.0× High 13.4×
Ten-year median 9.6×
Current reading's percentile 41

EV/EBITDA against peers

Company EV/EBITDA
HLF Herbalife Ltd compare 4.9×
POST Post Holdings, Inc. compare 7.9×
CENTA Central Garden & Pet Company compare 8.1×
NOMD Nomad Foods Limited compare 8.3×
CENT Central Garden & Pet Company 9.3×
MZTI The Marzetti Company compare 10.6×
JJSF J & J Snack Foods Corp. compare 12.5×
FRPT Freshpet, Inc. compare 17.0×
UTZ Utz Brands, Inc. compare 20.8×
Packaged Foods industry median 8.3×
Consumer Defensive sector median 9.5×
Market median 10.9×

What EV/EBITDA is

Enterprise Value over EBITDA tells an investor how the market values a whole company, with debt added and cash taken off, against its operating earnings.

((Stock Price × Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)) + (Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter)) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)) ÷ EBITDA (TTM)

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