Central Garden & Pet (CENT) Gross Margin (2010 - 2026)

Central Garden & Pet has disclosed Gross Margin across 17 years of filings, most recently posting 33.06% for Q1 2026.

• Gross Margin for Q1 2026 came in at 33.06%, up 30.0% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 was 32.21% (up 196.0% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was 31.87%, up 239.0% from the prior year.
• Gross Margin came in at 33.06% for Q1 2026 at Central Garden & Pet, up from 30.87% in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, Gross Margin ranged from a high of 34.55% in Q2 2025 to a low of 25.24% in Q3 2024.
• The 5-year median for Gross Margin is 30.05% (2022), against an average of 29.89%.
• Across the five-year window, Gross Margin slumped 261 bps in 2022 and surged 375 bps in 2025, its largest moves.
• Central Garden & Pet's Gross Margin stood at 27.36% in 2022, then advanced by 3 bps to 28.19% in 2023, then advanced by 6 bps to 29.81% in 2024, then climbed by 4 bps to 30.87% in 2025, then climbed by 7 bps to 33.06% in 2026.
• The last three Gross Margin figures came in at 33.06% (Q1 2026), 30.87% (Q4 2025), and 28.98% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.