Pet company Central Garden & Pet 
CENTwill be reporting earnings this Monday after market close. Here’s what to expect.
Central Garden & Pet missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 2.1% last quarter, reporting revenues of $960.9 million, down 3.6% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates but a miss of analysts’ revenue estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Central Garden & Pet’s revenue to decline 2.5% year on year to $652.7 million, improving from the 10.8% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted loss is expected to come in at -$0.20 per share.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Central Garden & Pet has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates five times over the last two years.
Looking at Central Garden & Pet’s peers in the household products segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Clorox’s revenues decreased 18.9% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 2%, and Reynolds reported revenues up 2.3%, topping estimates by 3.4%. Clorox traded up 1.2% following the results while Reynolds was also up 7.9%.
Read our full analysis of Clorox’s results here and Reynolds’s results here.
The euphoria surrounding Trump’s November win lit a fire under major indices, but potential tariffs have caused the market to do a 180 in 2025. While some of the household products stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 5.2% on average over the last month. Central Garden & Pet’s stock price was unchanged during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $42.33 (compared to the current share price of $32.32).
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