Central Garden & Pet Company (CENT)

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Central Garden & Pet Company's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Central Garden & Pet Company's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.8 billion in fiscal 2016 to $3.1 billion in fiscal 2025, up 6.1% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 6% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-09-27, Central Garden & Pet Company's diluted share count shrank about 2.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 20% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 7 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-09 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-09-27, Central Garden & Pet Company earned about 10 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 28 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 56 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 4.6% over the year (the filed statements).

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Central Garden & Pet Company's standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $3.1 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 32% by size; a net margin of 5.2% ranks in the top 23%; revenue growth of -2.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 40% (its annual reports).

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Central Garden & Pet Company's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Lahanas, Nicholas (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-02-07, 1.8 years (bottom 36% of its family); the 16 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 8.7 years (top 23%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 16 people in charge now (top 37%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Central Garden & Pet Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $882 million against debt of $1.2 billion leaves -8.5% of its assets as net cash, top 50% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 9.3% of revenue (top 14%); a gross margin of 31.9% (top 21%) (its annual report).

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Central Garden & Pet Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -2.1% a year over the last three filed years against 6.1% over all 10, slowing (bottom 34% of its family); the newest year grew -2.2% (bottom 40%); capital spending grew -28.8% a year (bottom 19%) (its annual reports). Central Garden & Pet Company tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

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Central Garden & Pet Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $3.1 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.2% below the $3.1 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 47% of its family); net income of $163 million against a prior three-year average of $129 million (top 25%); a net margin of 5.2% against 3.9% before (top 16%) (its annual reports).