CENT vs. SITE, INGM, AVT, REZI, GMS, VSTS, WKC, GLP, DSGR, and ASPN
Should you be buying Central Garden & Pet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Central Garden & Pet include SiteOne Landscape Supply (SITE), Ingram Micro (INGM), Avnet (AVT), Resideo Technologies (REZI), GMS (GMS), Vestis (VSTS), World Kinect (WKC), Global Partners (GLP), Distribution Solutions Group (DSGR), and Aspen Aerogels (ASPN). These companies are all part of the "wholesale" industry.
Central Garden & Pet vs.
Central Garden & Pet (NASDAQ:CENT) and SiteOne Landscape Supply (NYSE:SITE) are both mid-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
Central Garden & Pet presently has a consensus target price of $46.75, suggesting a potential upside of 28.93%. SiteOne Landscape Supply has a consensus target price of $156.44, suggesting a potential upside of 9.40%. Given Central Garden & Pet's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Central Garden & Pet is more favorable than SiteOne Landscape Supply.
In the previous week, Central Garden & Pet had 1 more articles in the media than SiteOne Landscape Supply. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Central Garden & Pet and 1 mentions for SiteOne Landscape Supply. Central Garden & Pet's average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat SiteOne Landscape Supply's score of 0.00 indicating that Central Garden & Pet is being referred to more favorably in the media.
16.1% of Central Garden & Pet shares are held by institutional investors. 8.2% of Central Garden & Pet shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of SiteOne Landscape Supply shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
SiteOne Landscape Supply has higher revenue and earnings than Central Garden & Pet. Central Garden & Pet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SiteOne Landscape Supply, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Central Garden & Pet has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SiteOne Landscape Supply has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SiteOne Landscape Supply received 27 more outperform votes than Central Garden & Pet when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.09% of users gave Central Garden & Pet an outperform vote while only 54.53% of users gave SiteOne Landscape Supply an outperform vote.
Central Garden & Pet has a net margin of 3.37% compared to SiteOne Landscape Supply's net margin of 3.16%. Central Garden & Pet's return on equity of 9.31% beat SiteOne Landscape Supply's return on equity.
Summary
Central Garden & Pet beats SiteOne Landscape Supply on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CENT) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
