Is it safe?
Can CENTA take a bad year?
Central Garden & Pet Company carries $539M of net debt at 1.57× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$539M
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.57×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.30× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Debt / equity
- 0.72×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 31%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.19B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $653M
- Net debt
- $539M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $343M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $259M
- Debt / equity
- 0.72×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.48×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 31%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −50%
- Below its 52-week high
- −6.2%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.