Central Garden & Pet (CENTA) Stock Price, News & Analysis

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Central Garden & Pet in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" CENTA shares.
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3 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Central Garden & Pet's shares. Their CENTA share price targets range from $32.00 to $60.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $45.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 25.3% from the stock's current price.
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Central Garden & Pet's stock was trading at $28.1856 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, CENTA shares have increased by 27.4% and is now trading at $35.90.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 1st 2024.
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Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ:CENTA) released its earnings results on Monday, November, 20th. The company reported $0.06 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.05 by $0.01. The firm earned $750.15 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $731.81 million. Central Garden & Pet had a net margin of 4.06% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.32%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned ($0.03) EPS.

Central Garden & Pet announced a -- dividend on Friday, December 22nd. Investors of record on Monday, January 8th will be given a dividend of $20.00 per share on Thursday, February 8th. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, February 9th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ:CENTA) stock in their portfolio include Invesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Staples ETF (PSCC), Qraft AI-Enhanced Next Value ETF (NVQ) and VictoryShares US Discovery Enhanced Volatility Wtd ETF (CSF).VictoryShares US Small Cap Volatility Wtd (CSA).

Central Garden & Pet's stock split before market open on Friday, February 9th 2024. The 5-4 split was announced on Friday, February 9th 2024. The newly issued shares were payable to shareholders after the closing bell on Friday, February 9th 2024. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 125 shares after the split.

Central Garden & Pet updated its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 7th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 2.500- for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 2.550. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

42 employees have rated Central Garden & Pet Chief Executive Officer Tim Cofer on Glassdoor.com. Tim Cofer has an approval rating of 48% among the company's employees. This puts Tim Cofer in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 64.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Central Garden & Pet to a friend.

Central Garden & Pet's stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Victory Capital Management Inc. (5.13%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (5.09%), GW&K Investment Management LLC (1.95%), Boston Trust Walden Corp (1.00%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (0.97%) and Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.81%). Insiders that own company stock include Brooks Pennington III, Howard Machek, John D Walker III, John Edward Hanson, John Ranelli, Nicholas Lahanas and William E Brown.
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