CENTA Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Central Garden & Pet Company - Class A Common Nonvoting | NASDAQ:CENTA)

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 - Class A Common Nonvoting trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol CENTA.

As of August 18, 2026, CENTA stock price climbed to $38.48 with 319,156 million shares trading.

CENTA has a beta of 0.45, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. CENTA has a correlation of 0.04 to the broad based SPY ETF.

CENTA has a market cap of $2.39 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Central Garden & Pet Company - Class A Common Nonvoting reported $882 million in Revenue and $1.54 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-15 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.02.

In the last 3 years, CENTA traded as high as $45.50 and as low as $25.97.

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

CENTA has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +18.5% while the SPY ETF gained +20.4%. However, in the short term, CENTA had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +14.4% vs +4.1% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, CENTA shares have been beat by the market, returning +0.8% compared to an SPY return of +1.3%.

CENTA support price is $36.85 and resistance is $38.43 (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 CENTA shares will trade within this expected range on the day.