CENT vs. SITE, INGM, AVT, REZI, GMS, GLP, WKC, DSGR, GIC, and VSTS
Should you be buying Central Garden & Pet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Central Garden & Pet include SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE), Ingram Micro (INGM), Avnet (AVT), Resideo Technologies (REZI), GMS (GMS), Global Partners (GLP), World Kinect (WKC), Distribution Solutions Group (DSGR), Global Industrial (GIC), and Vestis (VSTS). These companies are all part of the "wholesale" industry.
Central Garden & Pet vs.
SiteOne Landscape Supply (NYSE:SITE) and Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ:CENT) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and media sentiment.
SiteOne Landscape Supply has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Central Garden & Pet has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SiteOne Landscape Supply currently has a consensus target price of $145.70, suggesting a potential upside of 25.51%. Central Garden & Pet has a consensus target price of $43.33, suggesting a potential upside of 19.47%. Given SiteOne Landscape Supply's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe SiteOne Landscape Supply is more favorable than Central Garden & Pet.
16.1% of Central Garden & Pet shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of SiteOne Landscape Supply shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of Central Garden & Pet shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, SiteOne Landscape Supply had 10 more articles in the media than Central Garden & Pet. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for SiteOne Landscape Supply and 0 mentions for Central Garden & Pet. SiteOne Landscape Supply's average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat Central Garden & Pet's score of 0.00 indicating that SiteOne Landscape Supply is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SiteOne Landscape Supply has higher revenue and earnings than Central Garden & Pet. Central Garden & Pet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SiteOne Landscape Supply, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Central Garden & Pet has a net margin of 3.77% compared to SiteOne Landscape Supply's net margin of 2.72%. Central Garden & Pet's return on equity of 10.08% beat SiteOne Landscape Supply's return on equity.
SiteOne Landscape Supply received 30 more outperform votes than Central Garden & Pet when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.95% of users gave Central Garden & Pet an outperform vote while only 53.36% of users gave SiteOne Landscape Supply an outperform vote.
Summary
SiteOne Landscape Supply beats Central Garden & Pet on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CENT) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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