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Central Garden & Pet Company (CENT) stock score

Consumer Defensive · Packaged Foods · United States

$40.58 ▲ +0.07% today

59.1
Dad Score, out of 100
middling

Central Garden & Pet Company (CENT) is a Packaged Foods company in the Consumer Defensive sector, listed in the United States. On DadFin's weekly run it scores 59.1 out of 100 on the Dad Score, a middling reading that places the business ahead of 59% of the 5,774 US and Canadian stocks DadFin fully scores. Inside Consumer Defensive it ranks #84 of 232. Its strongest axes are valuation, quality and risk; its weakest are growth and liquidity.

Scores from the run of Oct 4, 2026. The Dad Score answers one question: how good is this business, measured against its own sector. How it is built →

The eight axes

Valuation
Strong
Quality
Above average
Growth
Below average
Price action
Average
Risk
Strong
Conviction
Above average
Liquidity
Weak
Macro
Weak

Each axis is ranked inside the stock's own sector. Subscribers see the percentile and every input behind each bar.

Key numbers

P/E (trailing)14.7×
P/E (forward)13.0×
Dividend yield0.00%
Return on capital8.9%
Operating margin14.3%
Revenue growth (YoY)-2.2%
FCF yield10.4%
Net debt / EBITDA1.22×
Piotroski F-Score8 / 9
52-week change+27.6%
Market cap$2.5B
Next earningsNov 25, 2026

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Packaged Foods peers

StockCompanyDad ScoreBandMarket cap
JBSJBS N.V.66.6middling$38.4B
KHCThe Kraft Heinz Company32.7weak$26.3B
GISGeneral Mills, Inc.11.8poor$17.1B
SJMThe J. M. Smucker Company36.3weak$12.5B
MKCMcCormick & Company, Incorporated42.5middling$12.0B
HRLHormel Foods Corporation36.7weak$11.1B
MICCThe Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V.24.1weak$10.6B
DARDarling Ingredients Inc.79.1good$9.9B

Prices from DadFin's live feed (refreshed about every 15 minutes in the session); scores from the weekly run of Oct 4, 2026. Fundamentals as reported in the latest filings. Research, not investment advice.