CENTA vs. WDFC, SPB, ODC, PG, CL, KMB, CHD, CLX, CENT, and VSTS
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 Co. of America (ODC), Procter & Gamble (PG), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Church & Dwight (CHD), Clorox (CLX), Central Garden & Pet (CENT), and Vestis (VSTS).
Central Garden & Pet vs. Its Competitors
WD-40 (NASDAQ:WDFC) and Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ:CENTA) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
WD-40 presently has a consensus target price of $301.00, suggesting a potential upside of 22.42%. Central Garden & Pet has a consensus target price of $33.00, suggesting a potential upside of 5.06%. Given WD-40's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe WD-40 is more favorable than Central Garden & Pet.
WD-40 has a beta of 0.17, indicating that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Central Garden & Pet has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
WD-40 has a net margin of 11.78% compared to Central Garden & Pet's net margin of 3.77%. WD-40's return on equity of 31.68% beat Central Garden & Pet's return on equity.
In the previous week, WD-40 had 2 more articles in the media than Central Garden & Pet. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for WD-40 and 2 mentions for Central Garden & Pet. Central Garden & Pet's average media sentiment score of 1.71 beat WD-40's score of 1.07 indicating that Central Garden & Pet is being referred to more favorably in the news 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.
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 endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
WD-40 received 98 more outperform votes than Central Garden & Pet when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.29% of users gave Central Garden & Pet an outperform vote while only 53.60% of users gave WD-40 an outperform vote.
Summary
WD-40 beats Central Garden & Pet on 11 of the 17 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 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
