How Central Garden & Pet Company stacks up

CENT · against 149 other Consumer Defensive companies listed in US-listed

Valuation

68/ 100

Near the top of its peers.

Ranked #36 of 150 · scores higher than 76% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the valuation score

19 peers with a valuation score of 60–69, including CENT · Click a bar to see the companies

Why valuation scores 68?

Weighted metrics compared with all Consumer Defensive companies.

Mainly thanks to its free cash flow yield and earnings yield, which are stronger than most Consumer Defensive peers.

EBITDA yield is close to the peer norm. EBITDA yield: 10.9% vs peer median 8.7%
higher earnings for the price paid: stronger than 64% of peers. Earnings yield: 5.8% vs peer median 4.5%
more free cash flow for the price paid: stronger than 77% of peers. Free cash flow yield: 12.0% vs peer median 6.2%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = CENT, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	CENT	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Earnings yieldHigher is better · 146 reported	5.8%	3.7%	69%	30%
EBITDA yieldHigher is better · 151 reported	10.2%	9.0%	60%	50%
Free cash flow yieldHigher is better · 132 reported	11.9%	5.8%	86%	20%
Book yieldHigher is better · 145 reported	60.2%	39.9%	63%	Context only

Ranking by valuation score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around CENT

Rank	Company	Market cap	Valuation	Overall
1	Afya LimitedAFYA · US-listed	933M USD	97	84
2	Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc.NATR · US-listed	212M USD	93	72
2	Phoenix Education Partners, Inc.PXED · US-listed	843M USD	93	88
4	Smithfield Foods, Inc.SFD · US-listed	7.2B USD	92	72
5	BellRing Brands, Inc.BRBR · US-listed	1.1B USD	91	67
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33	American Public Education, Inc.APEI · US-listed	775M USD	69	65
33	The Campbell's CompanyCPB · US-listed	6.5B USD	69	37
33	Dole plcDOLE · US-listed	1.2B USD	69	38
36	Albertsons Companies, Inc.ACI · US-listed	6.4B USD	68	29
36	Central Garden & Pet CompanyCENT · US-listed	2.9B USD	68	57
38	McCormick & Company, IncorporatedMKC · US-listed	12.9B USD	67	62
38	Target CorporationTGT · US-listed	70.1B USD	67	47
40	Constellation Brands, Inc.STZ · US-listed	23.6B USD	66	48
40	Weis Markets, Inc.WMK · US-listed	1.8B USD	66	55

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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