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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/Sales

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As of 5 November 2026, Central Garden & Pet Company (CENTA) trades at a EV/Sales of 0.9×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.5× (January 2015) to 1.3× (May 2021); the current reading is higher than 58% of that period. That is below the Packaged Foods industry median of 1.0× and below the Consumer Defensive sector median of 1.0×.

EV/Sales, daily

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Annual newest first

Period EV/Sales Change
FY2025 0.7× (11.23%)
FY2024 0.8× (6.94%)
FY2023 0.8× (0.96%)
FY2022 0.8× (9.18%)
FY2021 0.9× 26.32%
FY2020 0.7× (0.37%)
FY2019 0.7× (14.41%)
FY2018 0.9× (20.77%)
FY2017 1.1× 32.03%
FY2016 0.8× 21.47%

Quarterly newest first

Period EV/Sales Change
Jun 2026 0.8× 4.61%
Mar 2026 0.8× 9.25%
Dec 2025 0.7× 5.53%
Sep 2025 0.7× (10.51%)
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.5× High 1.3×
Ten-year median 0.8×
Current reading's percentile 54

EV/Sales against peers

Company EV/Sales
HLF Herbalife Ltd compare 0.6×
CENTA Central Garden & Pet Company 0.9×
CENT Central Garden & Pet Company compare 1.0×
JJSF J & J Snack Foods Corp. compare 1.1×
NOMD Nomad Foods Limited compare 1.2×
POST Post Holdings, Inc. compare 1.3×
UTZ Utz Brands, Inc. compare 1.4×
MZTI The Marzetti Company compare 1.6×
FRPT Freshpet, Inc. compare 2.8×
Packaged Foods industry median 1.0×
Consumer Defensive sector median 1.0×
Market median 2.1×

What EV/Sales is

EV/Sales tells an investor how the value of a whole company, counting its debt and cash, compares with the sales it brings in.

((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)) ÷ Revenue (TTM)

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