Central Garden & Pet Company has grown revenue −1.9% a year over three years and −0.98% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at 14%. Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate: −1.9% (Packaged Foods median +1.9%). Revenue growth, 5-year rate: −0.98%, growth has slowed since the five-year average. Earnings per share, 3-year rate: +14%, earnings outgrew revenue: margins or the share count worked for shareholders. Years of annual history on file: 17, FY2009 to FY2025, as filed.

CENTACentral Garden & Pet Company

Consumer Defensive

$35.02+12% 1Y

$35.02

$26.2752 weeks$40.66

Is it growing?

Good

Growing: earnings up +23% year on year and operating margin widening (+1.0 points).

2 good, 1 neutral

Revenue trend−1% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month revenue vs a year earlier, from the company's own filings. Five-year pace: −1% a year.

Earnings trend+23% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month earnings per share against a year earlier. Growing faster than revenue, so margins or the share count are helping.

Margin direction+1.0 points operating

Trailing-twelve-month operating margin, 7.1% now against 6.2% a year earlier.

All from SEC EDGAR, as of Jun 27, 2026.

Where this answer is blind. These are trailing numbers from the filings, not forecasts: an acquisition or a one-off year can flatter them, so check the quarters.

Is CENTA growing?

Central Garden & Pet Company has grown revenue −1.9% a year over three years and −0.98% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at 14%.

−1.9%

Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate · Packaged Foods median +1.9% · shrinking · compounded from trailing twelve-month revenue

Revenue growth, 5-year rate: −0.98%
Revenue growth, 5-year rate · −1.9% over three · growth has slowed since the five-year average
Earnings per share, 3-year rate: +14%
Earnings per share, 3-year rate · revenue −1.9% · earnings outgrew revenue: margins or the share count worked for shareholders
Years of annual history on file: 17
Years of annual history on file · FY2009 to FY2025, as filed