Central Garden & Pet Company

CENTA stock score: 64/100

$37.10 · +3.66% · Scored Oct 20, 2026

Technical
66
Fundamental
63
News
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The reading

Central Garden & Pet Company (CENTA) scores 64 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 82% of Consumer Defensive stocks and 88% of the 4,166 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 66, fundamentals 63.

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

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 69 and contrarian oscillators 29 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

Since Jul 25, 2026 the composite has ranged from 56 to 66, and it is down 1 point over the period.

What’s driving the score

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

Fundamental

63

Pulling it up

  • Fair Value100

    Fair value score synthesizes multiple valuation methods (DCF, P/E, P/B, P/S) to estimate intrinsic worth.

  • 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.

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.

39 weighted scorers; 2 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

Technical · daily

64

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

  • Bollinger Bands (20)0

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

  • Money Flow Index (14)0

    Money Flow Index (14-period) is a volume-weighted RSI that identifies overbought and oversold conditions.

  • Williams %R (14)8

    Williams %R (14-period) measures where the current price sits within the recent high-low range.

65 weighted scorers.

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly611
Daily643
Weekly652
Monthly712
Quarterly672

Composite score, last 90 days

05010064Jul 25, 2026Oct 20, 2026Jul 25, 2026: 65Jul 26, 2026: 65Jul 27, 2026: 65Jul 28, 2026: 66Jul 29, 2026: 65Jul 30, 2026: 64Jul 31, 2026: 63Aug 3, 2026: 65Aug 6, 2026: 66Aug 7, 2026: 65Aug 8, 2026: 65Aug 9, 2026: 65Aug 10, 2026: 64Aug 11, 2026: 64Aug 12, 2026: 65Aug 13, 2026: 65Aug 14, 2026: 63Aug 15, 2026: 64Aug 16, 2026: 63Aug 17, 2026: 62Aug 18, 2026: 63Aug 19, 2026: 65Aug 23, 2026: 65Aug 24, 2026: 65Aug 25, 2026: 64Aug 26, 2026: 64Aug 27, 2026: 63Aug 28, 2026: 63Aug 29, 2026: 63Aug 30, 2026: 63Aug 31, 2026: 62Sep 1, 2026: 61Sep 2, 2026: 60Sep 4, 2026: 59Sep 5, 2026: 59Sep 6, 2026: 59Sep 7, 2026: 59Sep 8, 2026: 58Sep 9, 2026: 56Sep 10, 2026: 56Sep 11, 2026: 57Sep 12, 2026: 58Sep 13, 2026: 58Sep 14, 2026: 59Sep 15, 2026: 58Sep 16, 2026: 59Sep 17, 2026: 59Sep 18, 2026: 57Sep 19, 2026: 58Sep 20, 2026: 58Sep 21, 2026: 58Sep 22, 2026: 59Sep 23, 2026: 58Sep 24, 2026: 58Sep 25, 2026: 56Sep 26, 2026: 57Sep 27, 2026: 56Sep 28, 2026: 57Sep 29, 2026: 56Sep 30, 2026: 56Oct 1, 2026: 56Oct 2, 2026: 59Oct 3, 2026: 59Oct 4, 2026: 59Oct 5, 2026: 59Oct 6, 2026: 60Oct 7, 2026: 60Oct 8, 2026: 61Oct 9, 2026: 61Oct 10, 2026: 61Oct 11, 2026: 61Oct 12, 2026: 62Oct 13, 2026: 63Oct 14, 2026: 62Oct 15, 2026: 63Oct 16, 2026: 63Oct 17, 2026: 63Oct 18, 2026: 63Oct 19, 2026: 62Oct 20, 2026: 64
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Key facts

Market cap
$2.3B
Sector
Consumer Defensive
Industry
Packaged Foods
Beta
0.59
Risk grade (1–10)
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Next earnings
Nov 25, 2026

Packaged Foods peers

CompanyMarket capScore
CPB The Campbell's Company$5.9B39
POST Post$3.4B51
FRPT Freshpet$3.2B60
MZTI The Marzetti Company$2.9B53
CENT Central Garden & Pet Company$2.7B65
UTZ Utz Brands$2.1B51

Questions

What is CENTA's stock score today?

CENTA scores 64/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 20, 2026: technical 66, fundamental 63. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is CENTA a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 64 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 CENTA score calculated?

104 weighted scorers feed it today: 39 fundamental, scored against Consumer Defensive ranges, and 65 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.