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Central Garden & Pet Company

CENTA 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

41.06 0.44 −1.06%
Market cap
$2.7B
P/E
15.2×
Fwd P/E
—
Dividend yield
—
F-score
8/9
Altman Z
2.51
Beneish M
−2.73
Dividend safety
n/a
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Central Garden & Pet Company (CENTA) EV/FCF

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As of 5 November 2026, Central Garden & Pet Company (CENTA) trades at a EV/FCF of 7.8×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from −148× (May 2022) to 45.2× (April 2023); the current reading is higher than 21% of that period.

EV/FCF, daily

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Annual newest first

Period EV/FCF Change
FY2025 7.4× 4.87%
FY2024 7.1× (16.17%)
FY2023 8.4× —
FY2022 −18.8× —
FY2021 18.0× 100.87%
FY2020 8.9× (11.67%)
FY2019 10.1× (59.50%)
FY2018 25.0× (12.40%)
FY2017 28.6× 142.22%
FY2016 11.8× (18.64%)

Quarterly newest first

Period EV/FCF Change
Jun 2026 7.4× (16.66%)
Mar 2026 8.9× 12.84%
Dec 2025 7.9× 6.45%
Sep 2025 7.4× (3.73%)
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low −148× High 45.2×
Ten-year median 11.2×
Current reading's percentile 12

EV/FCF against peers

Company EV/FCF
CENTA Central Garden & Pet Company 7.8×
CENT Central Garden & Pet Company compare 9.0×
HLF Herbalife Ltd compare 9.2×
NOMD Nomad Foods Limited compare 14.5×
MZTI The Marzetti Company compare 15.3×
JJSF J & J Snack Foods Corp. compare 18.4×
POST Post Holdings, Inc. compare 19.1×
UTZ Utz Brands, Inc. compare 27.0×
FRPT Freshpet, Inc. compare 49.3×

What EV/FCF is

EV/Free CF shows how the value of a whole company, debt included, compares with the free cash its business produces.

((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)) ÷ (Operating Cash Flow (TTM) + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) (TTM) + Intangible Assets Change (Net) (TTM))

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