Central Garden & Pet Company (CENT)

Last Closing Price: 40.70 (2024-04-25)

Company Description

Central Garden & Pet Company is a leading innovator, marketer and producer of quality branded products for the lawn & garden and pet supplies markets. Unique packaging, point-of-sale displays, logistic capabilities & efficient customer service are behind its growth. Its clients are PetSmart, PETCO, Walmart, Home Depot & Lowe's. It offers products to mass merchants, home improvement centers, lawn and garden nurseries, grocery stores, specialty pet stores, veterinarians' municipalities, & other individual animal buyers. It produces both branded products & private-label products along with distributing third-party brands. The Pet Segment offers food and accessories for dogs, cats, birds, small animals, fishes, horses and livestock under popular brands. The Garden Segment offers both proprietary and nonproprietary grass seeds, herbicides, insecticides, pesticides, decorative outdoor lifestyle & lighting products and markets them under brands i.e. AMDRO, Pennington, Sevin, Bell Nursery, Ironite, etc.

Financials, Fundamental Metrics & Ratios
Revenue (Most Recent Fiscal Year) $3.31B
Net Income (Most Recent Fiscal Year) $125.64M
PE Ratio (Current Year Earnings Estimate) 17.69
PE Ratio (Trailing 12 Months) 19.00
PEG Ratio (Long Term Growth Estimate) --
Price to Sales Ratio (Trailing 12 Months) 0.85
Price to Book Ratio (Most Recent Quarterly Book Value per Share) 1.94
Price to Cash Ratio (Most Recent Annual Cash Flow per Share) 12.29
Pre-Tax Margin (Trailing 12 Months) 5.24%
Net Margin (Trailing 12 Months) 4.06%
Return on Equity (Trailing 12 Months) 10.32%
Return on Assets (Trailing 12 Months) 4.35%
Current Ratio (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) 3.47
Quick Ratio (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) 1.55
Debt to Common Equity (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) 0.82
Inventory Turnover (Trailing 12 Months) 2.61
Book Value per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) $21.65
Earnings per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Quarter) $0.01
Earnings per Share (Most Recent Fiscal Year) $2.07
Diluted Earnings per Share (Trailing 12 Months) $2.02
Stock
Exchange NASDAQ
Sector Consumer Defensive
Industry Packaged Foods
Common Shares Outstanding 67.22M
Free Float 60.82M
Market Capitalization $2.82B
Average Volume (Last 20 Days) 0.09M
Beta (Past 60 Months) 0.72
Percentage Held By Insiders (Latest Annual Proxy Report) 9.53%
Percentage Held By Institutions (Latest 13F Reports) 16.13%
Annual Dividend (Based on Last Quarter) $0.00
Dividend Yield (Based on Last Quarter) 0.00%