Is the price fair?
What CENT's price assumes
Central Garden & Pet Company trades at 15.9× earnings against 13.7× for the median Packaged Foods name, more expensive than its own group.
15.9
Trailing P/E · Packaged Foods median 13.7 · 1.16× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 0.72
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 10%
Free cash flow yield · Packaged Foods median 10%
- Growth the price implies
- −4.3%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −4.3% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +58% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 1.39
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 10.9
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 0.89
- Consumer Defensive median P/E115 names
- 21.5
- Packaged Foods median P/E28 names
- 13.7
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $282M
- Market capitalisation
- $2.70B
- 3-year revenue growth
- −1.0%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +58%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $36.61 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $38.19 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $49.21 |
| 52-week range | $28.98 – $46.55 |
| Today | $44.18 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.