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

Central Garden & Pet Company (CENTA) P/S ratio

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As of 5 November 2026, Central Garden & Pet Company (CENTA) trades at a P/S ratio of 0.8×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.3× (January 2015) to 1.0× (March 2021); the current reading is higher than 83% of that period. That is above the Packaged Foods industry median of 0.7× and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 0.8×.

P/S ratio, daily

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Annual newest first

Period P/S ratio Change
FY2025 0.6× (7.65%)
FY2024 0.6× 2.79%
FY2023 0.6× 15.17%
FY2022 0.5× (22.39%)
FY2021 0.7× (3.09%)
FY2020 0.7× 9.63%
FY2019 0.7× (14.35%)
FY2018 0.8× (15.83%)
FY2017 0.9× 38.00%
FY2016 0.7× 40.06%

Quarterly newest first

Period P/S ratio Change
Jun 2026 0.8× 22.77%
Mar 2026 0.6× 8.46%
Dec 2025 0.6× (2.57%)
Sep 2025 0.6× (4.20%)
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.3× High 1.0×
Ten-year median 0.7×
Current reading's percentile 82

P/S ratio against peers

Company P/S ratio
HLF Herbalife Ltd compare 0.3×
POST Post Holdings, Inc. compare 0.5×
NOMD Nomad Foods Limited compare 0.5×
CENTA Central Garden & Pet Company 0.8×
UTZ Utz Brands, Inc. compare 0.9×
CENT Central Garden & Pet Company compare 1.0×
JJSF J & J Snack Foods Corp. compare 1.1×
MZTI The Marzetti Company compare 1.5×
FRPT Freshpet, Inc. compare 2.6×
Packaged Foods industry median 0.7×
Consumer Defensive sector median 0.8×
Market median 1.9×

What P/S ratio is

Price to Sales Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of a company’s annual sales, whether or not it is profitable.

(Stock Price × Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)) ÷ Revenue (TTM)

The full definition of P/S ratio →

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