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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) Gross margin

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Central Garden & Pet Company's gross margin over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 32.5%, up 0.7 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (31.9%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 28.6% (fiscal 2023) to 31.9% (fiscal 2025) — the current reading is the highest in ten years. That is above the Packaged Foods industry median of 28.4% and below the Consumer Defensive sector median of 34.6%.

Gross margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
FY2025 31.9% 2.38
FY2024 29.5% 0.89
FY2023 28.6% (1.12)
FY2022 29.7% 0.33
FY2021 29.4% (0.16)
FY2020 29.6% 0.01
FY2019 29.5% (0.95)
FY2018 30.5% (0.31)
FY2017 30.8% 0.56
FY2016 30.2% 0.67

Quarterly newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
Jun 2026 35.9% 2.86
Mar 2026 33.1% 2.19
Dec 2025 30.9% 1.89
Sep 2025 29.0% (5.57)
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 28.6% High 31.9%
Ten-year median 29.6%
Current reading's percentile 100

Gross margin against peers

Company Gross margin
HLF Herbalife Ltd compare 77.6%
FRPT Freshpet, Inc. compare 42.6%
CENT Central Garden & Pet Company 32.5%
CENTA Central Garden & Pet Company compare 32.5%
JJSF J & J Snack Foods Corp. compare 31.3%
POST Post Holdings, Inc. compare 28.8%
NOMD Nomad Foods Limited compare 26.9%
UTZ Utz Brands, Inc. compare 25.4%
MZTI The Marzetti Company compare 24.5%
Packaged Foods industry median 28.4%
Consumer Defensive sector median 34.6%
Market median 45.1%

What Gross margin is

Gross Margin tells an investor how much of each sale a company keeps after paying the direct costs of making or buying what it sells.

Gross Profit ÷ Revenue

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