Central Garden & Pet Company

CENT stock score: 65/100

$42.92 · -0.49% · Scored Oct 21, 2026

Technical
68
Fundamental
62
News
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The reading

Central Garden & Pet Company (CENT) scores 65 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 86% of Consumer Defensive stocks and 89% of the 4,166 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 68, fundamentals 62.

Among the fundamentals, Price Target at 100 and Earnings Growth (Annual) at 100 score highest, while Earnings Growth (Quarterly) at 7 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 72 and contrarian oscillators 29 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

Since Jul 26, 2026 the composite has ranged from 57 to 71, and it is up 6 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward CENT’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

62

Pulling it up

  • Price Target100

    Price target score compares the current stock price to analyst consensus targets.

  • Earnings Growth (Annual)100

    Annual earnings growth tracks year-over-year profit expansion.

  • Earnings Quality (Quarterly)100

    Quarterly earnings quality assesses the sustainability and reliability of reported profits.

Holding it back

  • Earnings Growth (Quarterly)7

    Quarterly earnings growth measures profit increase versus the prior-year quarter.

  • Revenue Growth (Quarterly)27

    Quarterly revenue growth measures sales increase compared to the previous quarter.

  • Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)27

    Return on Invested Capital measures the operating profit a company earns on all the capital invested in it, debt and equity alike.

41 weighted scorers.

Technical · daily

65

Pulling it up

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • VWAP100

    Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) shows the average price weighted by volume.

  • Stochastic (14)100

    Stochastic Oscillator (14-period) compares the current price to its range over 14 periods.

Holding it back

  • Candlestick Patterns0

    Candlestick patterns recognize specific price formations that historically suggest continuation or reversal.

  • Bollinger Bands (20)2

    Bollinger Bands (20-period) plot standard deviations above and below a moving average.

  • Williams %R (28)6

    Williams %R (28-period) places the close within the last 28 periods' high-low range.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly581
Daily653
Weekly682
Monthly732
Quarterly712

Composite score, last 90 days

05010065Jul 26, 2026Oct 22, 2026Jul 26, 2026: 59Jul 28, 2026: 59Jul 29, 2026: 59Jul 30, 2026: 71Jul 31, 2026: 70Aug 1, 2026: 70Aug 4, 2026: 60Aug 7, 2026: 60Aug 8, 2026: 65Aug 9, 2026: 66Aug 11, 2026: 64Aug 12, 2026: 65Aug 13, 2026: 65Aug 14, 2026: 65Aug 15, 2026: 64Aug 16, 2026: 64Aug 17, 2026: 64Aug 18, 2026: 63Aug 19, 2026: 64Aug 20, 2026: 66Aug 24, 2026: 66Aug 25, 2026: 66Aug 26, 2026: 66Aug 27, 2026: 65Aug 28, 2026: 64Aug 29, 2026: 64Aug 30, 2026: 64Aug 31, 2026: 64Sep 1, 2026: 61Sep 2, 2026: 62Sep 3, 2026: 62Sep 4, 2026: 60Sep 5, 2026: 60Sep 6, 2026: 60Sep 8, 2026: 60Sep 9, 2026: 60Sep 10, 2026: 58Sep 11, 2026: 58Sep 12, 2026: 59Sep 13, 2026: 59Sep 15, 2026: 59Sep 16, 2026: 59Sep 17, 2026: 60Sep 18, 2026: 58Sep 19, 2026: 59Sep 20, 2026: 59Sep 22, 2026: 59Sep 23, 2026: 60Sep 24, 2026: 60Sep 26, 2026: 59Sep 27, 2026: 57Sep 28, 2026: 59Sep 29, 2026: 58Sep 30, 2026: 58Oct 2, 2026: 58Oct 3, 2026: 61Oct 4, 2026: 61Oct 6, 2026: 61Oct 7, 2026: 61Oct 8, 2026: 62Oct 9, 2026: 62Oct 10, 2026: 61Oct 11, 2026: 62Oct 12, 2026: 62Oct 13, 2026: 63Oct 14, 2026: 63Oct 15, 2026: 63Oct 16, 2026: 64Oct 17, 2026: 64Oct 19, 2026: 64Oct 20, 2026: 63Oct 21, 2026: 65Oct 22, 2026: 65
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Key facts

Market cap
$2.7B
Sector
Consumer Defensive
Industry
Packaged Foods
Beta
0.59
Risk grade (1–10)
10
Next earnings
Nov 25, 2026

Packaged Foods peers

CompanyMarket capScore
CPB The Campbell's Company$5.8B39
POST Post$3.4B51
FRPT Freshpet$3.0B57
MZTI The Marzetti Company$2.9B53
CENTA Central Garden & Pet Company$2.3B64
UTZ Utz Brands$2.1B52

Questions

What is CENT's stock score today?

CENT scores 65/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 21, 2026: technical 68, fundamental 62. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is CENT a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 65 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the CENT score calculated?

103 weighted scorers feed it today: 41 fundamental, scored against Consumer Defensive ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.