Central Garden & Pet - CENT Stock Forecast, Price & News

1 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Central Garden & Pet in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" CENT shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in CENT, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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1 brokers have issued 12-month target prices for Central Garden & Pet's shares. Their CENT share price forecasts range from $60.00 to $60.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $60.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 34.6% from the stock's current price.
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Central Garden & Pet's stock was trading at $52.63 at the beginning of 2022. Since then, CENT shares have decreased by 15.3% and is now trading at $44.56.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, November 28th 2022.
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Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ:CENT) issued its earnings results on Monday, November, 22nd. The company reported ($0.06) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.24) by $0.18. The business earned $739.13 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $729.16 million. Central Garden & Pet had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.86% and a net margin of 4.48%. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.25 earnings per share.

Central Garden & Pet issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Wednesday, August, 10th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.75- for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.82. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

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Central Garden & Pet trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "CENT."

Central Garden & Pet's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (1.76%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.17%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.11%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (0.07%), Swiss National Bank (0.04%) and Deutsche Bank AG (0.04%). Insiders that own company stock include Brooks Pennington III, Daniel P Myers, George A Yuhas, Howard Machek, John D Walker III, John D Walker III, John Ranelli, Nicholas Lahanas, Thomas J Colligan and Timothy P Cofer.
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Shares of CENT stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of CENT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $44.56.

Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ:CENT) has a market capitalization of $2.45 billion and generates $3.30 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $151.75 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.76 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 7,000 workers across the globe.

Central Garden & Pet was founded in 1980.

Central Garden & Pet's mailing address is 1340 TREAT BOULEVARD SUITE 600, WALNUT CREEK CA, 94597. The official website for the company is www.central.com. The company can be reached via phone at (925) 948-4000, via email at fedelmann@central.com, or via fax at 302-636-5454.