CENTCentral Garden & Pet Company

Consumer Defensive

$40.62+16% 1Y

$40.62

$28.9852 weeks$46.55

Is the price fair?

Excellent

Undemanding: modest expectations priced in, cheap against its own history, and cheap vs its sector.

3 good

What the price assumes~−7% a year

Priced for a decline (~−7% a year). Little growth is priced in even as revenue fell 2% a year over three years, potential value, or a value trap.

Vs its own P/E rangecheaper than 80% of its own historyderived

Cheap vs its own history: P/E 15.0 vs a 16.7 median over 40 quarters (−10% vs median).

Vs sector (EV/EBIT)11.9×

Sector median 16.6× across 78 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.

Unless marked, from derived, as of Jun 27, 2026.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

P/E (valuation)better than 71% of the market

FCF yieldtop 9% of the market

Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.

What CENT's price assumes

Central Garden & Pet Company trades at 15.0× earnings against 14.2× for the median Packaged Foods name, more expensive than its own group.

15.0

Trailing P/E · Packaged Foods median 14.2 · 1.06× the median: the market pays up for this one

Price / sales: 0.90
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 27, 2026
Free cash flow yield: 12%
Free cash flow yield · Packaged Foods median 8.7%
Growth the price implies: −6.6%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −6.6% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +17% a year over the last three.

Details›

Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jun 27, 2026: 1.60
EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Jun 27, 2026: 11.9
EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jun 27, 2026: 0.97
Consumer Defensive median P/E142 names: 20.2
Packaged Foods median P/E37 names: 14.2
Free cash flow, trailing twelve months: $346M
Market capitalisation: $2.78B
3-year revenue growth: −1.9%
3-year free cash flow growth: +17%

What the market has paid for these earnings: 40 quarters of its own multiple × $2.70 of trailing earnings per share
Method	Per share
Its own P/E history, lower quartile	$41.55
Its own P/E history, median	$45.01
Its own P/E history, upper quartile	$48.94
52-week range	$28.98 – $46.55
Today	$40.62

Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.

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Packaged Foods

Ranks #14 of 26 by RyuScore

Central Garden & Pet Company