Is the price fair?
What CENTA's price assumes
Central Garden & Pet Company trades at 12.7× earnings against 13.3× for the median Packaged Foods name, cheaper than its own group.
12.7
Trailing P/E · Packaged Foods median 13.3 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 0.64
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 12%
Free cash flow yield · Packaged Foods median 10%
- Growth the price implies
- −5.7%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −5.7% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +58% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 1.22
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 9.84
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 0.81
- Consumer Defensive median P/E116 names
- 20.0
- Packaged Foods median P/E28 names
- 13.3
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $282M
- Market capitalisation
- $2.44B
- 3-year revenue growth
- −1.0%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +58%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $34.77 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $35.95 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $43.45 |
| 52-week range | $26.27 – $40.66 |
| Today | $35.30 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.