CENTA vs. WDFC, SPB, ODC, PG, CL, KMB, CHD, CLX, REYN, and IPAR
Should you be buying Central Garden & Pet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Central Garden & Pet include WD-40 (WDFC), Spectrum Brands (SPB), Oil-Dri Corporation Of America (ODC), Procter & Gamble (PG), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Church & Dwight (CHD), Clorox (CLX), Reynolds Consumer Products (REYN), and Interparfums (IPAR).
Central Garden & Pet vs. Its Competitors
WD-40 (NASDAQ:WDFC) and Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ:CENTA) are both mid-cap household products companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
91.5% of WD-40 shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 50.8% of Central Garden & Pet shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of WD-40 shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.3% of Central Garden & Pet shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
WD-40 currently has a consensus price target of $301.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.66%. Central Garden & Pet has a consensus price target of $33.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.80%. Given WD-40's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe WD-40 is more favorable than Central Garden & Pet.
WD-40 has a beta of 0.14, suggesting that its stock price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Central Garden & Pet has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
WD-40 has a net margin of 13.99% compared to Central Garden & Pet's net margin of 3.90%. WD-40's return on equity of 31.55% beat Central Garden & Pet's return on equity.
In the previous week, WD-40 and WD-40 both had 4 articles in the media. WD-40's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Central Garden & Pet's score of 0.39 indicating that WD-40 is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Central Garden & Pet has higher revenue and earnings than WD-40. Central Garden & Pet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WD-40, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
WD-40 beats Central Garden & Pet on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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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This page (NASDAQ:CENTA) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
