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Central Garden & Pet Co. – More aggressive reinvestment in brands to drive top-line growth

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Central Garden & Pet Co. (NASDAQ:CENT). Last Market Price: 8.23, Change: -0.05, % Change: (-0.60%). Shares trade in the range of 6.81 – 8.27 dollars. It has a market capitalization of 439.85M dollars, making it a Small Cap Stock and has 53.45M outstanding shares. The company has a beta of 1.33, indicating, the stock to be more volatile than the market. As per the most recent quarterly report, the net income per share (EPS) is 0.56; P/E of 14.71 indicating, that the stock price to be fair valued. It operates in Consumer/Non-Cyclical sector and belongs to Personal and Household Prods. industry. Percentage shares held by institutional investors is 14%. The company has a 52 week Price range (low – high) of $ 6.42 – 11.38. Average volumes of shares traded daily are 62,294. Volume traded in the last session was at 26,456, 0.42 times the average volume.

  • Reports Q4 (Sep)
    • Loss of $0.21 per share, may not be comparable to the estimates
    • Revenues rose 8.6% year on year to $376.9 million
  • States: As highlighted on our last quarterly call, we have committed to a broad set of transformation initiatives that are expected to take significant cost out of the company, improve margins meaningfully and enable more aggressive reinvestment in our brands to drive top-line growth.

For Q2 (Jun ’11), It had a Net profit margin of 3.56%, an Operating margin of 7.56%. Other Key stats and ratios are : Return on average assets of 5.69%, Return on average equity of 13.77%. The organization has an employee strength of 3,900

Consensus Recommendation is a Hold.


Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 291.05 million dollars, an estimate high of 291.10 million dollars and an estimate low of 291.00 million dollars.

Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Mar-12 show a mean of 499.90 million dollars, an estimate high of 502.90 million dollars and an estimate low of 496.90 million dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Dec-11 show a mean of -0.19 dollars, an estimate high of -0.18 dollars and an estimate low of -0.20 dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Mar-12 show a mean of 0.68 dollars, an estimate high of 0.73 dollars and an estimate low of 0.62 dollars.

Sales for Quarter Ending Sep-11 was estimated at 360.33 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 376.91 million dollars, 16.57 million dollars more than estimates.

Sales for Quarter Ending Jun-11 was estimated at 488.68 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 484.30 million dollars, 4.37 million dollars less than estimates.

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Post Written By: Ed Liston

Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing in his yacht.


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Ed Liston

Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

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