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CENTACentral Garden & Pet Company A
Consumer Discretionary · Consumer Specialties · Mid
$39.10+0.75%
As of 23 Oct 2026Mkt cap $2.3B
Stage 13
WATCH
Fundamentals
45.7/75
Technical
8.3/15
Independent
54.0/90
GCAE viewbusiness is credible but technical recovery is not yet actionable
Price
- 1M
- +14.4%
- 3M
- +2.2%
- 6M
- +12.5%
- 1Y
- +38.0%
Financials & valuation
Cached filing evidence · as of 2026-10-02
Valuation
- P/E
- 14.6xHist median 14.8x
- Forward P/E
- —No validated forward-estimate source
- Price / FCF
- 7.2x
- FCF yield
- 13.9%
Quality
- ROIC
- 8.7%
- Operating margin
- 6.4%
- FCF margin
- 9.3%
- Current ratio
- 3.7x
Growth
- Revenue growth
- −2.2%Latest FY YoY
- Revenue CAGR
- −1.3%
- EPS CAGR
- −30.6%
- FCF CAGR
- +14.3%
Capital
- Share-count trend
- −2.2%3Y annualised
- Net debt
- $558M1.7x OCF
Annual trend
- CAGR 2021–2025
- −1.3%
- Latest · 2025
- $3B
- YoY
- −2.2%
GCAE Research
- Quality Research
- PRE-AI
- Acceleration Radar
- NOT FLAGGED
- THE ONE
- NOT FLAGGED
- Final / Opportunity
- NOT FLAGGED
Key takeaway
business is credible but technical recovery is not yet actionable
Unresolved question
No reliable unresolved question is available from the current committed evidence.
Watch next
- Next earnings · 2026-11-25
More details & evidence
Production decision
- Stage 13
- WATCH
- Technical state
- approaching-support
- Rotation
- tailwind
- Evidence
- fresh
Presentation freshness
- Stage 11 market
- 2026-10-23 · Massive
- Financial cache
- 2026-10-02
- Quality Research
- CURRENT
- THE ONE
- NOT FLAGGED
Authority
- Company page
- Presentation only
- Scores
- Frozen GCAE production outputs
- Research
- Research-only lanes; no score override
- Private portfolio
- Not loaded