Central Garden & Pet Company is classed by the SEC under Wholesale-Miscellaneous Nondurable Goods (industry code 5190), based in Walnut Creek, CA. In its latest annual figures on file, for the fiscal year ended 2025-09-27, it reported revenue of $3.1 billion and a profit of $163 million (its filed statements).
Distribution businessWholesale-Miscellaneous Nondurable GoodsWalnut Creek, CAfilings since 19969 of 9 filed
Three tenses, nine metrics. Unseen metrics stay unseen; the grade never fakes a number. Proxy era: provisional values, marked. Weighed as a distribution business: prior from its industry code (SEC 5190, Wholesale-Miscellaneous Nondurable Goods); the filing read can change it. All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.
The grade, in three tenses
Headline 6.3 out of ten, 9 of 9 metrics filed: past 6.8 out of ten, present 6.3 out of ten, future 5.7 out of ten. The past asks what it actually did, the present what it is doing right now, the future what it is set up to do next.
The nine metrics
Surviving crises (past): 7.1 out of ten. No warning events in its filings since 2017. 71st percentile among 36 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
Track record (past): 6.3 out of ten. +6.1% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10. 63rd percentile among 35 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
Shareholder treatment (past): 6.9 out of ten. Share count shrank 2.1% a year. 20% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 7 sales, 0 purchases. 69th percentile among 25 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
Financial health (present): 7.2 out of ten. ROE 10%: 10¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 56%: owes 56¢ per asset dollar. 72nd percentile among 32 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
Industry position (present): 6.1 out of ten. top 39% of 35 in its family; net margin 5.2%. 61st percentile among 35 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
Leadership (present): 5.5 out of ten. top 45% of 22 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2025. 55th percentile among 22 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-09).
Room to expand (future): 7.1 out of ten. top 29% of 34 in its family for room to expand. 71st percentile among 34 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
Growth drivers (future): 3.0 out of ten. bottom 30% of 35 in its family for growth drivers. 30th percentile among 35 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
Expectations vs reality (future): 7.1 out of ten. top 29% of 31 in its family for expectations against reality. 71st percentile among 31 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
The filing record
Newest annual report: Form 10-K filed 2025-11-26 for the period ended 2025-09-27 (on EDGAR). Newest quarterly report: Form 10-Q filed 2026-08-06 for the period ended 2026-06-27 (on EDGAR). Newest results release: Form 8-K filed 2026-08-05 (on EDGAR). Newest filing: Form 4, 2026-09-28. Filings on record since 1996. Read from EDGAR 2026-10-12.
Who runs it
Pennington, Brooks III (Pres. & CEO - Pennington Seed); Lahanas, Nicholas (Chief Executive Officer); Ranelli, John (President and CEO); Brown, William E (Chairman); Walker, John D. III (President, Garden Consumer Pro); Hanson, John Edward (President, Pet Consumer Prod); Schwichtenberg, Kay (Executive Vice President); Smith, Bradley G. (Chief Financial Officer); Machek, Howard (Chief Accounting Officer); Patel, Apur Rohit (Chief Legal Officer); and 6 more. 16 officers and directors have filed their own trades in the last fifteen months, names and titles as filed with the SEC, through 2026-09-30.
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