CENT vs. CENTA, VSTS, NHTC, HYFM, EDUC, RL, CHDN, BIRK, TTC, and SN
Should you be buying Central Garden & Pet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Central Garden & Pet include Central Garden & Pet (CENTA), Vestis (VSTS), Natural Health Trends (NHTC), Hydrofarm Holdings Group (HYFM), Educational Development (EDUC), Ralph Lauren (RL), Churchill Downs (CHDN), Birkenstock (BIRK), Toro (TTC), and SharkNinja (SN).
Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ:CENTA) and Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ:CENT) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Central Garden & Pet received 71 more outperform votes than Central Garden & Pet when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.64% of users gave Central Garden & Pet an outperform vote while only 59.95% of users gave Central Garden & Pet an outperform vote.
50.8% of Central Garden & Pet shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.1% of Central Garden & Pet shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.3% of Central Garden & Pet shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.5% of Central Garden & Pet shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Central Garden & Pet presently has a consensus price target of $40.50, indicating a potential upside of 18.98%. Central Garden & Pet has a consensus price target of $52.75, indicating a potential upside of 33.71%. Given Central Garden & Pet's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Central Garden & Pet is more favorable than Central Garden & Pet.
Central Garden & Pet has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Central Garden & Pet has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Central Garden & Pet and Central Garden & Pet both had 9 articles in the media. Central Garden & Pet's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat Central Garden & Pet's score of 0.31 indicating that Central Garden & Pet is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Central Garden & Pet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Central Garden & Pet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Central Garden & Pet beats Central Garden & Pet on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CENT and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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