Central Garden & Pet Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Recent Insider Transactions

DB:GP7A Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
21 May 25	Sell€2,857,416	William Brown	Individual	100,000	€28.59
13 May 25	Sell€268,500	John Hanson	Individual	9,375	€28.64
13 Feb 25	Sell€79,669	John Ranelli	Individual	2,500	€31.87
11 Feb 25	Sell€216,250	Brooks Pennington	Individual	6,765	€32.32
10 Feb 25	Sell€318,703	John Walker	Individual	10,000	€31.87
30 Aug 24	Sell€1,819,210	William Brown	Individual	60,000	€30.32
19 Aug 24	Sell€77,471	John Ranelli	Individual	2,500	€30.99
31 May 24	Sell€996,746	William Brown	Individual	29,037	€34.56
30 May 24	Sell€23,400,825	William Brown	Individual	700,000	€33.43

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: GP7A insiders have only sold shares in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of GP7A?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
State or Government	34,880	0.0532%
Individual Insiders	5,230,136	7.97%
Institutions	60,351,044	92%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 80.28% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
15.8%	BlackRock, Inc.	10,006,834	€287.3m	-4.67%	no data
11%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	6,950,275	€199.5m	-6.75%	no data
7.1%	William Brown	4,502,799	€129.3m	0.18%	no data
6.64%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	4,211,295	€120.9m	-3.94%	0.02%
4.41%	Allspring Global Investments, LLC	2,794,532	€80.2m	-1.82%	0.15%
4.01%	Victory Capital Management Inc.	2,545,428	€73.1m	-13.3%	0.08%
3.91%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	2,478,442	€71.2m	-5.49%	no data
2.87%	American Century Investment Management Inc	1,818,581	€52.2m	15.6%	0.02%
2.37%	Champlain Investment Partners, LLC	1,502,841	€43.1m	-1.44%	0.33%
2.27%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	1,438,364	€41.3m	1.15%	no data
1.95%	GW&K Investment Management, LLC	1,236,934	€35.5m	-3.21%	0.36%
1.84%	Westwood Management Corp.	1,164,376	€33.4m	21.1%	0.29%
1.76%	Silvercrest Asset Management Group LLC	1,117,099	€32.1m	-1.49%	0.25%
1.69%	State of Wisconsin Investment Board	1,068,823	€30.7m	-7.32%	0.09%
1.62%	Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.	1,030,196	€29.6m	6.12%	no data
1.62%	Armistice Capital LLC	1,025,085	€29.4m	28.8%	0.85%
1.57%	Bridgeway Capital Management, LLC	993,876	€28.5m	1.78%	0.59%
1.22%	Northern Trust Global Investments	773,719	€22.2m	-0.79%	no data
1.21%	William Blair Investment Management, LLC	768,425	€22.1m	-4.61%	0.03%
1.19%	Manulife Asset Management	756,270	€21.7m	108%	0.02%
1.11%	Eaton Vance Management	701,166	€20.1m	0.33%	no data
0.86%	Renaissance Technologies LLC	545,586	€15.7m	-4.78%	0.03%
0.79%	Managed Account Advisors LLC	501,540	€14.4m	4.88%	no data
0.78%	Mangrove Partners IM, LLC	493,056	€14.2m	0%	1.78%
0.75%	Highbridge Capital Management, LLC	477,291	€13.7m	-30.4%	2.2%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/05/23 13:15
End of Day Share Price	2025/05/23 00:00
Earnings	2025/03/29
Annual Earnings	2024/09/28

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Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

Central Garden & Pet Company is covered by 16 analysts. 5 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
John Staszak	Argus Research Company
Shannon Coyne	BMO Capital Markets Equity Research
Christopher Carey	BofA Global Research