Central Garden & Pet Company (CENT)
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About Central Garden & Pet Company
Central Garden & Pet Company produces and distributes various products for the lawn and garden, and pet supplies markets in the United States. It operates through two segments, Pet and Garden. The Pet segment provides dog and cat supplies, such as dog treats and chews, toys, pet beds and grooming products, waste management and training pads, and pet containment; supplies for aquatics, small animals, reptiles, and pet birds, including toys, cages and habitats, bedding, and food and supplements; animal and household health and insect control products; live fish and products for fish, reptiles, and other aquarium-based pets, such as aquariums, furniture and lighting fixtures, pumps, filters, water conditioners, food, and supplements; and products for horses and livestock, as well as outdoor cushions and pillows. This segment sells its products under the Aqueon, Cadet, Comfort Zone, Farnam, Four Paws, Kaytee, K&H Pet Products, Nylabone, and Zilla brands. The Garden segment offers lawn and garden supplies products that include grass seed; wild bird feed, bird feeders, bird houses, and other birding accessories; fertilizers; decorative outdoor lifestyle products; live plants; and weed and grass, as well as other herbicides, insecticide, and pesticide products. This segment sells its lawn and garden supplies products under the AMDRO, Ferry-Morse, Pennington, and Sevin brands, as well as under Bell Nursery, Lilly Miller, and Over-N-Out other brand names. Central Garden & Pet Company was founded in 1955 and is based in Walnut Creek, California.
Insider Activity of Central Garden & Pet Company
Over the last 12 months, insiders at Central Garden & Pet Company have bought $0 and sold $32.1M worth of Central Garden & Pet Company stock.
On average, over the past 5 years, insiders at Central Garden & Pet Company have bought $100,106 and sold $8.47M worth of stock each year.
There was no buying activity among insiders over the last 12 months.
The last purchase of 2,375 shares for transaction amount of $100,106 was made by Myers Daniel P. (director) on 2021‑08‑19.
List of Insider Buy and Sell Transactions, Central Garden & Pet Company
| 2024-08-30 | Sale | Chairman | 60,000 0.0849% | $33.54 | $2.01M | -4.36% | ||
| 2024-08-19 | Sale | director | 2,500 0.0036% | $34.28 | $85,688 | -3.25% | ||
| 2024-08-13 | Sale | director | 1,486 0.0021% | $32.80 | $48,741 | 0.00% | ||
| 2024-05-31 | Sale | Chairman | 24,847 0.0357% | $37.27 | $926,055 | -10.99% | ||
| 2024-05-30 | Sale | Chairman | 700,000 0.9768% | $36.25 | $25.38M | -11.00% | ||
| 2024-05-16 | Sale | President, Garden Consumer Pro | 4,218 0.0061% | $40.31 | $170,042 | -15.21% | ||
| 2024-05-15 | Sale | Chief Financial Officer | 10,000 0.0148% | $40.00 | $400,019 | -18.04% | ||
| 2024-05-14 | Sale | Chief Accounting Officer | 10,000 0.0151% | $40.05 | $400,500 | -16.70% | ||
| 2024-05-13 | Sale | Chief Financial Officer | 30,000 0.0452% | $39.98 | $1.2M | -16.75% | ||
| 2024-05-13 | Sale | President Pet Consumer Product | 9,132.5 0.0138% | $39.98 | $365,088 | -16.75% | ||
| 2024-02-29 | Sale | Chairman | 650 0.001% | $37.48 | $24,361 | -9.87% | ||
| 2024-02-23 | Sale | Chairman | 1,055 0.0016% | $37.39 | $39,445 | -8.12% | ||
| 2024-02-20 | Sale | Chairman | 2,485 0.0037% | $36.66 | $91,091 | -8.24% | ||
| 2024-02-15 | Sale | director | 2,400 0.0037% | $38.34 | $92,008 | -8.89% | ||
| 2024-02-14 | Sale | Chief Accounting Officer | 5,000 0.0073% | $36.40 | $182,000 | -7.58% | ||
| 2024-02-13 | Sale | President Pet Consumer Product | 5,321 0.008% | $37.19 | $197,889 | -5.35% | ||
| 2024-02-12 | Sale | Chief Financial Officer | 13,101 0.0199% | $37.64 | $493,122 | -8.30% | ||
| 2023-12-05 | Sale | 6,000 0.0485% | $39.23 | $235,402 | -6.86% | |||
| 2023-11-28 | Sale | director | 2,800 0.0051% | $36.22 | $101,404 | +2.44% | ||
| 2023-08-31 | Sale | director | 2,440 0.0045% | $40.87 | $99,723 | -2.61% |
Insider Historical Profitability
| BROWN WILLIAM E | Chairman | 1125773 1.961% | $36.27 | 6 | 50 | <0.0001% |
| Walker John D. III | President, Garden Consumer Pro | 85063 0.1482% | $36.27 | 0 | 7 | |
| LAHANAS NICHOLAS | Chief Financial Officer | 77528 0.135% | $36.27 | 0 | 7 | |
| Machek Howard | Chief Accounting Officer | 51474 0.0897% | $36.27 | 0 | 8 | |
| PENNINGTON BROOKS III | director | 40743 0.071% | $36.27 | 0 | 105 | |
| Hanson John Edward | President Pet Consumer Product | 32908 0.0573% | $36.27 | 0 | 5 | |
| Ranelli John | director | 822 0.0014% | $36.27 | 1 | 61 | <0.0001% |
| SCOPIA MANAGEMENT INC | 10 percent owner | 4918821 8.5682% | $36.27 | 13 | 1 | +18.32% |
| SIROVICH MATTHEW | 10 percent owner | 4349580 7.5766% | $36.27 | 2 | 0 | +26.8% |
| HARBERT MANAGEMENT CORP | 10 percent owner | 635623 1.1072% | $36.27 | 0 | 4 | |
| NOVOTNY GLENN W | Pres./ Chief Executive Officer | 122046 0.2126% | $36.27 | 0 | 47 | |
| Reed Michael A | Executive Vice President | 113375 0.1975% | $36.27 | 0 | 11 | |
| Varlas Lori A. | SVP, CFO and Secretary | 60797 0.1059% | $36.27 | 0 | 7 | |
| PIERGALLINI ALFRED A | director | 60430 0.1053% | $36.27 | 3 | 4 | <0.0001% |
| BOOTH STUART W | Chief Financial Officer | 27874 0.0486% | $36.27 | 2 | 23 | <0.0001% |
| ROETH GEORGE C | President and CEO | 25849 0.045% | $36.27 | 0 | 2 | |
| Yuhas George A. | General Counsel | 21628 0.0377% | $36.27 | 0 | 9 | |
| Cofer Timothy P. | CEO | 20000 0.0348% | $36.27 | 2 | 0 | +27.46% |
| CHICHESTER DAVID N | director | 16422 0.0286% | $36.27 | 1 | 24 | <0.0001% |
| HEIM JAMES V | President of Bus. Development | 11350 0.0198% | $36.27 | 0 | 1 | |
| WESTPHAL BRUCE A | director | 10000 0.0174% | $36.27 | 6 | 5 | +0.76% |
| HOGAN DANIEL P JR | director | 8843 0.0154% | $36.27 | 0 | 1 | |
| Myers Daniel P. | director | 3966 0.0069% | $36.27 | 1 | 0 | <0.0001% |
| EDWARDS MICHAEL | director | 2930 0.0051% | $36.27 | 1 | 0 | <0.0001% |
| BALOUSEK JOHN | director | 2760 0.0048% | $36.27 | 1 | 20 | <0.0001% |
| SPRINGER MARY BETH | director | 1260 0.0022% | $36.27 | 0 | 8 | |
| Colligan Thomas J | director | 705 0.0012% | $36.27 | 2 | 8 | +31.95% |
Institutional Investor Ownership
| Pacer Advisors Inc | $120.83M | 4.19 | 2.82M | +73.37% | +$51.14M | 0.31 | |
| BlackRock | $68.24M | 2.36 | 1.59M | -2.32% | -$1.62M | <0.01 | |
| The Vanguard Group | $57.61M | 2 | 1.35M | -10.13% | -$6.49M | <0.01 | |
| Allspring Global Investments | $35.72M | 1.24 | 833,879 | -13.21% | -$5.43M | 0.06 | |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors | $33.05M | 1.15 | 771,726 | -0.23% | -$77,094.00 | 0.01 | |
| Morgan Stanley | $27.31M | 0.95 | 637,704 | -2.3% | -$642,449.97 | <0.01 | |
| Geode Capital Management | $22.66M | 0.79 | 529,152 | +5.57% | +$1.2M | <0.01 | |
| State Street | $16.78M | 0.58 | 391,683 | +0.57% | +$94,739.96 | <0.01 | |
| Allianz Asset Management Gmbh | $12.09M | 0.42 | 282,383 | -16.57% | -$2.4M | 0.02 | |
| Renaissance Technologies | $9.67M | 0.34 | 225,811 | -1.48% | -$145,614.70 | 0.02 | |
| Orchard Capital Managment Llc | $7.34M | 0.25 | 171,289 | +1.29% | +$93,455.06 | 2.15 | |
| Northern Trust | $7.27M | 0.25 | 169,852 | -1.15% | -$84,760.57 | <0.01 | |
| Bank of America | $6.88M | 0.24 | 160,644 | +0.25% | +$17,089.17 | <0.01 | |
| American Century Investments | $5.6M | 0.19 | 130,638 | +146.27% | +$3.32M | <0.01 | |
| Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management | $5.36M | 0.19 | 125,070 | -2.1% | -$114,784.40 | 0.02 | |
| GW&K Investment Management | $4.64M | 0.16 | 108,345 | -3.56% | -$171,518.76 | 0.04 | |
| Millennium Management LLC | $4.25M | 0.15 | 99,295 | +19.6% | +$696,886.95 | <0.01 | |
| BNY Mellon | $3.64M | 0.13 | 85,004 | -3.04% | -$114,141.94 | <0.01 | |
| Charles Schwab | $3.44M | 0.12 | 80,400 | -0.51% | -$17,731.62 | <0.01 | |
| Invesco | $3.28M | 0.11 | 76,527 | -15.67% | -$608,999.88 | <0.01 | |
| MARTIN & CO INC /TN/ | $3.17M | 0.11 | 73,987 | -0.15% | -$4,625.61 | 0.78 | |
| RBF Capital, LLC | $3.09M | 0.11 | 72,176 | 0% | +$0 | 0.13 | |
| ProShares | $2.19M | 0.08 | 51,117 | +92.59% | +$1.05M | 0.01 | |
| Jane Street Capital | $2.04M | 0.07 | 47,700 | New | +$2.04M | <0.01 | |
| Public Employees Retirement System Of Ohio | $1.96M | 0.07 | 45,816 | -10.79% | -$237,278.17 | 0.01 | |
| Ameriprise Financial | $1.98M | 0.07 | 46,137 | -2.04% | -$41,159.61 | <0.01 | |
| T. Rowe Price | $1.79M | 0.06 | 41,862 | +32.37% | +$438,463.07 | <0.0001 | |
| Citadel Advisors LLC | $1.73M | 0.06 | 40,345 | New | +$1.73M | <0.01 | |
| Gsa Capital Partners Llp | $1.7M | 0.06 | 39,793 | -7.37% | -$135,487.55 | 0.14 | |
| Benefit Financial Services Group (BFSG) | $1.31M | 0.05 | 30,592 | -4.53% | -$62,103.53 | 0.18 | |
| SEI Investments Company | $1.31M | 0.05 | 30,589 | -3.88% | -$52,857.71 | <0.01 | |
| Nuveen | $1.28M | 0.04 | 29,941 | 0% | +$0 | <0.0001 | |
| RhumbLine Advisers | $1.28M | 0.04 | 29,901 | -3.79% | -$50,410.25 | <0.01 | |
| First Trust | $1.16M | 0.04 | 26,997 | +3.12% | +$34,949.26 | <0.01 | |
| Legal & General | $1.13M | 0.04 | 26,363 | -0.75% | -$8,566.00 | <0.0001 | |
| ROYCE & ASSOCIATES INC | $1.09M | 0.04 | 25,424 | +87.37% | +$507,749.69 | 0.01 | |
| Hrt Financial Llc | $1.11M | 0.04 | 25,913 | New | +$1.11M | 0.01 | |
| JPMorgan Chase | $1.07M | 0.04 | 24,866 | -26.4% | -$382,043.32 | <0.0001 | |
| Independent Advisor Alliance | $925,128.00 | 0.03 | 21,600 | 0% | +$0 | 0.03 | |
| North Star Investment Management Corp | $902,642.00 | 0.03 | 21,075 | 0% | +$0 | 0.06 | |
| Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership | $863,000.00 | 0.03 | 20,138 | New | +$863,000.00 | <0.01 | |
| Public Sector Pension Investment Board | $847,092.00 | 0.03 | 19,778 | 0% | +$0 | 0.01 | |
| Swiss National Bank | $794,497.00 | 0.03 | 18,550 | 0% | +$0 | <0.01 | |
| Ubs Asset Management Americas Inc | $797,623.00 | 0.03 | 18,623 | 0% | +$0 | <0.0001 | |
| Tokio Marine Asset Management Co Ltd | $753,808.00 | 0.03 | 17,600 | 0% | +$0 | 0.04 | |
| Goldman Sachs | $633,842.00 | 0.02 | 14,799 | -18.74% | -$146,178.98 | <0.0001 | |
| Envestnet Asset Management Inc | $569,468.00 | 0.02 | 13,296 | +9.94% | +$51,481.69 | <0.0001 | |
| Deutsche Bank | $546,554.00 | 0.02 | 12,761 | +1.12% | +$6,039.03 | <0.0001 | |
| Credit Suisse | $514,517.00 | 0.02 | 12,013 | -10.53% | -$60,561.64 | <0.0001 | |
| Voya Investment Management LLC | $497,856.00 | 0.02 | 11,624 | -9.61% | -$52,937.89 | <0.01 |