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 14.5 vs a 16.0 median over 40 quarters (−9% 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 14.5× earnings against 15.2× for the median Packaged Foods name, cheaper than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Packaged Foods median 15.2 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 0.79
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q2
- Free cash flow yield
- 14%
Free cash flow yield · Packaged Foods median 7.8%
- Growth the price implies
- −8.1%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −8.1% 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
- 1.39
- EV / EBITas of 2026-Q2
- 10.5
- EV / salesas of 2026-Q2
- 0.85
- Consumer Defensive median P/E140 names
- 21.7
- Packaged Foods median P/E37 names
- 15.2
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $346M
- Market capitalisation64.1 million shares, counted Jul 29, 2026
- $2.51B
- 3-year revenue growth
- −1.9%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +17%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $39.27 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $43.12 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $45.78 |
| 52-week range | $27.53 – $40.66 |
| Today | $39.08 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
What is it worth?
Today's price against what its own multiples, its cash flow and your growth assumption say it is worth.
Against its own past
Its multiples now against their own history, and how much of the price move came from earnings rather than the multiple.