CENTACentral Garden & Pet Company
Is the price fair?
Undemanding: modest expectations priced in and cheap against its own history.
Priced for a decline (~−8% a year). Little growth is priced in even as revenue fell 2% a year over three years, potential value, or a value trap.
Cheap vs its own history: P/E 13.0 vs a 16.0 median over 40 quarters (−19% vs median).
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What CENTA's price assumes
Central Garden & Pet Company trades at 13.0× earnings against 14.2× for the median Packaged Foods name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Packaged Foods median 14.2 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 0.78
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q2
- Free cash flow yield
- 14%
Free cash flow yield · Packaged Foods median 8.7%
- Growth the price implies
- −8.5%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −8.5% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +17% a year over the last three.
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- Price / bookas of 2026-Q2
- 1.38
- EV / EBITas of 2026-Q2
- 10.5
- EV / salesas of 2026-Q2
- 0.85
- Consumer Defensive median P/E141 names
- 20.2
- Packaged Foods median P/E37 names
- 14.2
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $346M
- Market capitalisation
- $2.44B
- 3-year revenue growth
- −1.9%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +17%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $39.16 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $43.12 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $45.78 |
| 52-week range | $26.27 – $40.66 |
| Today | $35.02 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.