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
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Central Garden & Pet Company (CENTA) Price to free cash flow
As of 5 November 2026, Central Garden & Pet Company (CENTA) trades at a price to free cash flow of 7.3×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.0× (March 2023) to 33.7× (July 2018); the current reading is higher than 37% of that period. That is below the Packaged Foods industry median of 9.0× and below the Consumer Defensive sector median of 15.1×.
Price to free cash flow, daily
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Annual newest first
| Period | Price to free cash flow | Change |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 6.4× | 9.12% |
| FY2024 | 5.9× | (7.42%) |
| FY2023 | 6.3× | — |
| FY2022 | 0.0× | — |
| FY2021 | 13.6× | 54.11% |
| FY2020 | 8.8× | (2.80%) |
| FY2019 | 9.1× | (59.48%) |
| FY2018 | 22.4× | (6.94%) |
| FY2017 | 24.1× | 153.18% |
| FY2016 | 9.5× | (6.19%) |
Quarterly newest first
| Period | Price to free cash flow | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | 6.9× | (2.17%) |
| Mar 2026 | 7.0× | 12.02% |
| Dec 2025 | 6.3× | (1.73%) |
| Sep 2025 | 6.4× | 3.06% |
| 42 more quarters | Free account |
Against its own ten years
Price to free cash flow against peers
| Company | Price to free cash flow |
|---|---|
| HLF Herbalife Ltd compare | 4.7× |
| NOMD Nomad Foods Limited compare | 6.0× |
| POST Post Holdings, Inc. compare | 6.5× |
| CENTA Central Garden & Pet Company | 7.3× |
| CENT Central Garden & Pet Company compare | 8.5× |
| MZTI The Marzetti Company compare | 14.4× |
| UTZ Utz Brands, Inc. compare | 16.6× |
| JJSF J & J Snack Foods Corp. compare | 18.4× |
| FRPT Freshpet, Inc. compare | 47.1× |
| Packaged Foods industry median | 9.0× |
| Consumer Defensive sector median | 15.1× |
| Market median | 14.1× |
What Price to free cash flow is
Price to Free Cash Flow Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of cash a company generates after its capital spending.
Stock Price ÷ ((Operating Cash Flow (TTM) + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) (TTM) + Intangible Assets Change (Net) (TTM)) ÷ (Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)))
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