Is the business good?
How good a business is CENT?
Central Garden & Pet Company earns 9.3% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
9.3%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 0.35 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 8.2%
Operating margin · Packaged Foods median 8.2% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.65×
Cash conversion · 2.70× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −4.6%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 7.3% |
| FY2021 | 7.7% |
| FY2022 | 7.8% |
| FY2023 | 6.4% |
| FY2024 | 5.8% |
| FY2025 | 8.0% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 32%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 8.2%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 5.4%
- Free cash flow margin
- 8.9%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $3.16B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $282M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $171M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 9.3%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.