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Central Garden & PET Co. CENTA

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$3.1B
▼ 2.2% YoY
$162.8M
▲ 50.8% YoY
$291.1M
▼ 17.2% YoY

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Growth

USD 3.1B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 3.1 · Net income 0.2
2B3B
2009201220152018202120242025
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%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +3.0% a year over the five years to FY2025 — 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%
2%4%6%
200920172025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 10.4%
5%10%15%
200920172025
Three returns, three denominators.

Each USD of equity produced 10 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 155.1M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 291.1
150M300M-100M-200M
200920172025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends · · Net buybacks 155.1
100M200M-100M-200M
200920112013201520172019202120232025

USD 155.1M in buybacks — 95% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 3.6B
EquityUSD 1.6B
CashUSD 882.5M
Gross debtUSD 1.2B
Net debtUSD 309.2M
Current ratio3.67×

Net debt stands at 20% of equity.

The 17-year record

17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
CENTA, 17-year financial record
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B3.13.23.33.33.32.72.42.22.11.81.71.61.71.71.61.51.6
Operating income $B0.30.20.20.30.30.20.20.20.20.10.10.10.00.10.10.10.1
EBITDA $B0.30.30.30.30.30.30.20.20.20.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.2
Income tax $B0.10.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.0
Net income $B0.20.10.10.20.20.10.10.10.10.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.1
Free cash flow $B0.30.40.3−0.10.20.20.20.10.10.10.10.1−0.10.00.00.10.2
EPS, diluted $2.551.621.882.242.752.201.612.321.520.870.640.18−0.040.440.500.700.94
Dividend / sh $◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Payout % — not applicable: no dividend—————————————————
ROE %10.47.29.011.913.211.69.515.613.38.46.51.8−0.44.65.78.512.0

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 83 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of the 17 fiscal years we could check. Six checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2010. Two checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2009. Two checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2009.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityWholesale-Miscellaneous Nondurable Goods
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsSeptember 27
Data on record since2009

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