CENTACentral Garden & Pet Company

$39.08+45% 1Y

$39.08

$27.5352 weeks$40.66

Is the price fair?

Good

Undemanding: modest expectations priced in and cheap against its own history.

2 good, 1 without data

What the price assumes~−8% a yearderived · Jun 27, 2026

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.

Vs its own P/E rangecheaper than 77% of its own historyderived

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.

Central Garden & Pet Company trades at 14.5× earnings against 15.2× for the median Packaged Foods name, cheaper than its own group.

14.5

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.

Details›

What the market has paid for these earnings: 40 quarters of its own multiple × $2.70 of trailing earnings per share
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.