CENT Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Central Garden & Pet Company | NASDAQ:CENT)

Central Garden & Pet Co offers solutions that support healthier pets, greener lawns, and thriving gardens. Its products include dog and cat treats, chews, toys, beds, containment, grooming supplies, aquatics, small animal and bird supplies, equine and livestock products, insect control solutions, grass seed, wild bird feed, fertilizers, pest controls, live plants, and packet seeds, sold under brands such as Aqueon, Nylabone, Kaytee, Farnam, Pennington, Ferry Morse, Amdro, and Sevin. The company operates through two segments, Pet and Garden, and sells through retailers, independent stores, eCommerce channels, and professional markets. It has sales and distribution operations mainly across the United States, with additional facilities in Canada and Mexico.

Central Garden & Pet Company trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol CENT.

As of March 30, 2026, CENT stock price climbed to $37.09 with 53,255 million shares trading.

CENT has a beta of 0.39, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. CENT has a correlation of 0.05 to the broad based SPY ETF.

CENT has a market cap of $2.31 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Central Garden & Pet Company reported $617 million in Revenue and $.21 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-19 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.08.

In the last 3 years, CENT traded as high as $51.71 and as low as $28.77.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that CENT belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, AVUV, VXF, IWM, VTI.

CENT has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +3.4%, while SPY returned +12.7%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in CENT shares. However, CENT has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +13.5% and +1.0%, while SPY returned -8.2% and -4.3%, respectively. This indicates CENT has been having a stronger performance recently.

CENT support price is $36.29 and resistance is $37.75 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that CENT shares will trade within this expected range on the day.