Central Garden & Pet Company vs Seaboard Corporation, two Wholesale stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Central Garden & Pet sells branded pet and garden consumer products, a steadier trade than the commodity names around it, earning 10.38% on equity at a 5.42% margin with a strong 10.18% free-cash yield. Seaboard, the pork, trading, and shipping conglomerate, earns a comparable 10.99% on equity but burned a little cash, a negative 0.33% yield. On assets Seaboard is cheaper, 0.84 times book against 1.68, and it trades at 7.78 times earnings to Central's 16.31. Debt is light at both, 0.72 and 0.18. Central offers cleaner consumer cash flow; Seaboard offers a below-book price on a lumpier commodity business.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | CENT | SEB |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $43.19 | $4666.00 |
| Market cap | $2.7B | $4.5B |
| Sector | Wholesale | Wholesale |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | -1.9% |
| P/E | 15.7 | 7.7 |
| P/B | 1.62 | 0.83 |
| P/S | 0.84 | 0.45 |
| EV/EBITDA | 9.4 | 8.6 |
| Revenue growth | +0.1% | +6.9% |
| Gross margin | 33.1% | 9.0% |
| Operating margin | 12.6% | 4.0% |
| Net margin | 5.4% | 6.0% |
| Return on equity | 10.4% | 11.0% |
| Return on assets | 4.6% | 7.0% |
| Return on invested capital | 7.0% | 3.9% |
| FCF yield | 10.6% | -0.3% |
| Dividend yield | — | 0.2% |
| Debt / equity | 0.72 | 0.18 |
| Current ratio | 3.45 | 2.38 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 7.83 | 3.33 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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