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Central Garden & Pet (CENT) Operating Margin (2016 - 2025)

Central Garden & Pet (CENT) has disclosed Operating Margin for 16 consecutive years, with 2.68% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly Operating Margin fell 159.0% to 2.68% in Q4 2025 from the year-ago period, while the trailing twelve-month figure was 7.72% through Dec 2025, up 136.0% year-over-year, with the annual reading at 7.99% for FY2025, 220.0% up from the prior year.
  • Operating Margin hit 2.68% in Q4 2025 for Central Garden & Pet, up from 0.94% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 14.06% in Q2 2025 to a low of 4.84% in Q3 2024.
  • Historically, Operating Margin has averaged 6.16% across 5 years, with a median of 6.42% in 2023.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Operating Margin: crashed -609bps in 2024 and later soared 390bps in 2025.
  • Year by year, Operating Margin stood at 3.96% in 2021, then tumbled by -98bps to 0.06% in 2022, then soared by 1950bps to 1.33% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 222bps to 4.26% in 2024, then crashed by -37bps to 2.68% in 2025.
  • Business Quant data shows Operating Margin for CENT at 2.68% in Q4 2025, 0.94% in Q3 2025, and 14.06% in Q2 2025.