Consumer Defensive
Live Price
Offline$44.91
+0.92% today
1Y Change
+27.66%
Window
Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 26, 2026
Coverage: 249 bars · Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 26, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Central Garden & Pet Company (CENT) is a Consumer Defensive stock with a market cap of $2.25B and listed on NASDAQ. The stock last traded around $44.91 and up 27.7% across the available one-year price window (Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 26, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -2.2%, EPS growth of +57.3%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue -2.2%, EPS +57.3%, free cash flow -17.2% with operating margin 7.7% and ROIC 5.8%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 14.2 and price/sales 0.7. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines CENT price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Consumer Defensive peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
Relative Read
CENT is 9.67 pts ahead over the shared 1Y window.
CENT had 20.30 pts deeper max drawdown than SPY.
CENT beat SPY in 1 of 2 calendar years shown and trailed in 1.
CENT
+27.66%
Normalized return
SPY
+17.99%
S&P 500
Excess Return
+9.67 pts
Relative to SPY
CENT Max Drawdown
-29.44%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
-9.13%
Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for CENT and SPY.
| Year | CENT | SPY | Excess | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | +40.56% | +6.71% | +33.86 pts | CENT |
| 2025 | -8.24% | +11.19% | -19.44 pts | SPY |
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$3.3B
-1.0% YoY
FY Net Income
$151.7M
-0.3% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$170.5M
+214.3% YoY
Revenue Growth
-2.2%
EPS Growth
+57.3%
Gross Margin
32.1%
Net Margin
5.0%
Income statement
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 3.1B | 3.2B | 3.3B | 3.3B | 3.3B |
| Gross Profit | 973M | 944M | 947M | 992M | 971M |
| Operating Income | 265M | 185M | 211M | 260M | 257M |
| EBITDA | 359M | 291M | 307M | 387M | 367M |
| Net Income | 163M | 108M | 126M | 152M | 152M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 882M | 754M | 489M | 177M | 426M |
| Total Assets | 3.6B | 3.6B | 3.4B | 3.3B | 3.1B |
| Total Liabilities | 2.0B | 2.0B | 1.9B | 1.9B | 1.9B |
| Shareholder Equity | 1.6B | 1.6B | 1.5B | 1.3B | 1.2B |
| Total Debt | 1.4B | 1.4B | 1.4B | 1.4B | 1.4B |
| Net Debt | 558M | 667M | 886M | 1.2B | 930M |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
251M
+837.1% YoY
Capital Expenditures
80M
+30.3% YoY
Free Cash Flow
171M
+214.3% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
32.1%
Operating Margin
7.7%
Net Margin
5.0%
ROE
9.9%
Debt / Equity
1.02x
Next Step
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