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Central Garden & PET Co. CENT
17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
In brief
What this company does
Written from the business description in CENTRAL GARDEN & PET CO's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 26 November 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Growth
USD 3.1B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B
Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 3.1 · Net income 0.2
Compound annual growth
−2.1%
+3.0%
+6.6%
+4.9%
+2.3%
+6.2%
+17.7%
+8.8%
+4.4%
+3.0%
+14.8%
+9.0%
+35.5%
+21.3%
+23.8%
+5.9%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs
Revenue compounded at +3.0% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +6.2%, earnings per share at +3.0%.
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.
Profitability
5 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin
Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 8.0% · Net 5.2%
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 10.4%
Each USD of equity produced 10 cents of profit this year.
The 17-year record
17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.6 |
| Operating income $B | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| EBITDA $B | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Income tax $B | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | −0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Net income $B | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | −0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Free cash flow $B | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | −0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | −0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 2.55 | 1.62 | 1.88 | 2.24 | 2.75 | 2.20 | 1.61 | 2.32 | 1.52 | 0.87 | 0.64 | 0.18 | −0.04 | 0.44 | 0.50 | 0.70 | 0.94 |
| Dividend / sh $ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Payout % | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| ROE % | 10.4 | 7.2 | 9.0 | 11.9 | 13.2 | 11.6 | 9.5 | 15.6 | 13.3 | 8.4 | 6.5 | 1.8 | −0.4 | 4.6 | 5.7 | 8.6 | · |
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.
Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 83 reconciliationsAUDITED
Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 12 checks could not be computed.
EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityWholesale-Miscellaneous Nondurable Goods
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsSeptember 27
Data on record since2009