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Central Garden & PET Co Stock: price and insider trades · United States
No insider purchase over the last 90 days. The latest was filed 23 Aug 2021.
Central Garden & PET Co: what insiders have been doing
Central Garden & PET Co, classified in the Food & Agriculture sector, is a listed company. Its insiders report their share dealings to SEC (Form 4). Between 18 October 2025 and 18 October 2026, 18 insiders published 49 filings.
The flow runs one way only: 5 sales worth €780k, from 5 insiders, and no purchase. Metz Christopher T filed the largest sale, €266k, on 2 December 2025.
Typically, a trade is published a median of 2 days after it takes place. The legal deadline for a Form 4 is two business days after the transaction. Sales are harder to read than purchases, since they often meet personal needs such as tax or diversification.
Compared with its exchange (5,810 companies, median 19 filings), a count of 49 filings is above the norm. Our records for Central Garden & PET Co go back to 2016, with 1 purchase and 37 sales on the open market in total. In its latest annual report filed with the SEC (10-K, fiscal year ended 27 September 2025), the company reported revenue of 3.13 bn USD and net income of 162.8 m USD.
For comparison within the same sector, see the insider buying recorded at Village Farms International, Inc. and Orkla ASA. This summary is built from SEC (Form 4) disclosures alone and does not predict where the share price will go.
Insider Decl.
255
Thresholds
n/a
Buy Volume
€85,732
1 ops. · all time
Sell Volume
€13M
37 ops. · all time
Who traded when
BuySaleWilliam E. Brown4 sales
John D. Walker III3 sales
John Edward Hanson2 sales
John Ranelli2 sales
Christopher T. Metz1 sale
Dougher Brendan1 sale
Since the insiders bought
- -6.5%Entry US$34.37 · Close at T+365 US$32.12
Entry is the close on the day after publication, the first price a reader could act on. Prices in the listing currency. Past moves are not a forecast.
This score ranks the purchase within its own market. A position size is suggested only on the venues of the backtested strategy universe; elsewhere, signals stay on watch. Not investment advice.
Fundamental score
Ranked 8,035 of 24,148 companies
59.9
score / 100
Value73
Quality47
FCF yld13%
Earn yld7.2%
EV/EBITDA10.3x
ROE10.0%
Gross mgn32%
Net mgn5.2%
Debt/EBITDA4.0x
Pillars2/3
Transparent value + quality ranking, distinct from the insider signal.
Financial data
as of FY 2025FY ended September 2025 · cache
US$35.53
Analyst consensus
4 analysts1.80/5
US$39.00Target US$46.25(+30%)US$50.00
Income statement
RevenueUS$3.1B
Gross profitUS$997.3M32% margin
EBITDAUS$359.3M11% margin
Net incomeUS$162.8M5.4% margin
Valuation
PER (trailing)13.2x
PER (forward)11.6x
P/Book1.3x
Beta0.59
Balance sheet & cash
Market capUS$2.2B
Total debtUS$1.4B
Free Cash FlowUS$291.1M
Debt / Equity81%
Profitability & ownership
ROE10.0%
ROA4.3%
% insiders3.6%
% institutions97.4%
Last declaration on 28 September 2026
Declarations255 total
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8,531 shares0Class A Common StockSEC:0001193125-26-344697:0
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8,518 sharesClass A Common StockSEC:0001193125-26-285693:0
8,051 sharesClass A Common StockSEC:0001193125-26-285693:1
8,518 sharesClass A Common StockSEC:0001193125-26-274112:0
8,200 sharesClass A Common StockSEC:0001193125-26-274112:1
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3,734 shares0Class A Common StockSEC:0001193125-26-122212:0
3,668 shares@ US$34.49689.4% of flowClass A Common StockSEC:0001193125-26-064561:0
2,050 shares0Common StockSEC:0001193125-26-054644:0
5,000 shares@ US$34.75216.2% of flowClass A Common StockSEC:0001193125-26-054547:0
3,584 shares0Class A Common StockSEC:0001193125-26-051894:0
3,584 shares0Class A Common StockSEC:0001193125-26-051448:0
7,813 shares0Class A Common StockSEC:0001193125-26-051429:0
7,813 shares0Class A Common StockSEC:0001193125-26-051386:0
3,584 shares0Class A Common StockSEC:0001193125-26-051311:0
3,584 shares0Class A Common StockSEC:0001193125-26-049131:0
25 of 255 declarations
About Central Garden & PET Co
Central Garden & Pet Co (ticker: CENTA) is a U.S.-listed company traded on the NASDAQ market in the United States. Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, the company is a long-established consumer goods business focused on the pet and garden categories. Its roots go back to its early distribution origins in the garden supply business, and over time it has expanded through a mix of organic growth and acquisitions into a diversified branded-products platform.
The group operates through two core segments: Pet and Garden. In Pet, Central sells a broad assortment of products for dogs, cats, birds, fish, and small animals, including treats, specialty nutrition, grooming and hygiene products, accessories, aquatics products, and animal-health-related items. In Garden, it offers seeds, lawn and garden care, weed and pest control products, tools, outdoor maintenance solutions, and related landscaping and irrigation products. This breadth allows the company to serve mass retail, specialty pet stores, garden centers, home-improvement channels, and select professional customers.
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From a competitive standpoint, Central Garden & Pet has meaningful scale within its niches, a portfolio of established brands, and distribution reach across consumer and professional channels. Its competitive edge comes less from a single blockbuster brand and more from category breadth, channel access, and operational execution. Management has recently emphasized a multi-year “Cost and Simplicity” agenda aimed at simplifying operations, improving sourcing and manufacturing efficiency, and supporting margin expansion.
Recent company updates point to improving profitability despite a still-competitive retail environment. In its latest reported fiscal 2026 quarterly results, Central highlighted higher sales, expanded margins, and earnings growth, while reaffirming an outlook for fiscal 2026 non-GAAP diluted EPS of at least $2.70. The company also discussed portfolio optimization, facility closures in the Garden segment, and continued discipline around capital allocation and share repurchases. For French-speaking investors, Central Garden & Pet is best viewed as a U.S. consumer staple-like growth platform with cyclical exposure to home-and-garden spending and pet discretionary demand, underpinned by a sizable branded portfolio and ongoing efficiency initiatives.
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