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

Central Garden & Pet has disclosed Operating Margin across 17 years of filings, most recently posting 12.57% for Q1 2026.

• Operating Margin for Q1 2026 came in at 12.57%, up 138.0% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 was 8.2% (up 170.0% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was 7.99%, up 220.0% from the prior year.
• Operating Margin came in at 12.57% for Q1 2026 at Central Garden & Pet, up from 2.68% 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.
• The 5-year median for Operating Margin is 8.59% (2023), against an average of 6.38%.
• Across the five-year window, Operating Margin sank 609 bps in 2024 and jumped 390 bps in 2025, its largest moves.
• Central Garden & Pet's Operating Margin stood at 0.06% in 2022, then soared by 1949 bps to 1.33% in 2023, then soared by 222 bps to 4.26% in 2024, then tumbled by 37 bps to 2.68% in 2025, then soared by 370 bps to 12.57% in 2026.
• The last three Operating Margin figures came in at 12.57% (Q1 2026), 2.68% (Q4 2025), and 0.94% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.