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.
Where CENT and SEB diverge most: on fcf yield, CENT reads 10.6% and SEB reads -0.3%; on revenue growth, CENT reads +0.1% and SEB reads +6.9%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What CENT's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | CENT | SEB |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $43.06 | $4428.46 |
| Market cap | $2.7B | $4.2B |
| Sector | Wholesale | Wholesale |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| P/E | 15.7 | 7.3 |
| P/B | 1.61 | 0.79 |
| P/S | 0.84 | 0.43 |
| EV/EBITDA | 9.3 | 8.2 |
| 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 | 3.28 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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