Central Garden Pet Stock Price Prediction

CENT Stock  USD 32.21  0.09  0.28%   
At this time, the relative strength index (RSI) of Central Garden's share price is approaching 49 suggesting that the stock is in nutural position, most likellhy at or near its support level. The main point of RSI analysis is to track how fast people are buying or selling Central Garden, making its price go up or down.

Momentum 49

 Impartial

 
Oversold
 
Overbought
The successful prediction of Central Garden's future price could yield a significant profit. We analyze noise-free headlines and recent hype associated with Central Garden Pet, which may create opportunities for some arbitrage if properly timed. Below are the key fundamental drivers impacting Central Garden's stock price prediction:
Quarterly Earnings Growth
0.277
EPS Estimate Next Quarter
0.255
EPS Estimate Current Year
2.7799
EPS Estimate Next Year
2.9674
Wall Street Target Price
46
Using Central Garden hype-based prediction, you can estimate the value of Central Garden Pet from the perspective of Central Garden response to recently generated media hype and the effects of current headlines on its competitors. We also analyze overall investor sentiment towards Central Garden using Central Garden's stock options and short interest. It helps to benchmark the overall future attitude of investors towards Central using crowd psychology based on the activity and movement of Central Garden's stock price.

Central Garden Short Interest

An investor who is long Central Garden may also wish to track short interest. As short interest increases, investors should be becoming more worried about Central Garden and may potentially protect profits, hedge Central Garden with its derivative instruments, or be ready for some potential downside.
200 Day MA
34.5097
Short Percent
0.0393
Short Ratio
2.81
Shares Short Prior Month
215.2 K
50 Day MA
32.5964

Central Garden Pet Hype to Price Pattern

Investor biases related to Central Garden's public news can be used to forecast risks associated with an investment in Central. The trend in average sentiment can be used to explain how an investor holding Central can time the market purely based on public headlines and social activities around Central Garden Pet. Please note that most equities that are difficult to arbitrage are affected by market sentiment the most.
Some investors profit by finding stocks that are overvalued or undervalued based on market sentiment. The correlation of Central Garden's market sentiment to its price can help taders to make decisions based on the overall investors consensus about Central Garden.

Central Garden Implied Volatility

    
  0.83  
Central Garden's implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of Central Garden Pet stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if Central Garden's implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that Central Garden stock will not fluctuate a lot when Central Garden's options are near their expiration.
The fear of missing out, i.e., FOMO, can cause potential investors in Central Garden to buy its stock at a price that has no basis in reality. In that case, they are not buying Central because the equity is a good investment, but because they need to do something to avoid the feeling of missing out. On the other hand, investors will often sell stocks at prices well below their value during bear markets because they need to stop feeling the pain of losing money.

Central Garden after-hype prediction price

    
  USD 32.27  
There is no one specific way to measure market sentiment using hype analysis or a similar predictive technique. This prediction method should be used in combination with more fundamental and traditional techniques such as stock price forecasting, technical analysis, analysts consensus, earnings estimates, and various momentum models.

Prediction based on Rule 16 of the current Central contract

Based on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Central Garden Pet will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0519% per day over the life of the 2026-04-17 option contract. With Central Garden trading at USD 32.21, that is roughly USD 0.0167 . If you think that the market is fully incorporating Central Garden's daily price movement you should consider acquiring Central Garden Pet options at the current volatility level of 0.83%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
Check out Central Garden Basic Forecasting Models to cross-verify your projections.
Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
28.9939.1440.92
Details
Naive
Forecast
LowNextHigh
30.3532.1433.92
Details
7 Analysts
Consensus
LowTargetHigh
41.8646.0051.06
Details
Earnings
Estimates (0)
LowProjected EPSHigh
1.031.081.12
Details

Central Garden After-Hype Price Density Analysis

As far as predicting the price of Central Garden at your current risk attitude, this probability distribution graph shows the chance that the prediction will fall between or within a specific range. We use this chart to confirm that your returns on investing in Central Garden or, for that matter, your successful expectations of its future price, cannot be replicated consistently. Please note, a large amount of money has been lost over the years by many investors who confused the symmetrical distributions of Stock prices, such as prices of Central Garden, with the unreliable approximations that try to describe financial returns.
   Next price density   
       Expected price to next headline  

Central Garden Estimiated After-Hype Price Volatility

In the context of predicting Central Garden's stock value on the day after the next significant headline, we show statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios based on Central Garden's historical news coverage. Central Garden's after-hype downside and upside margins for the prediction period are 30.49 and 34.05, respectively. We have considered Central Garden's daily market price in relation to the headlines to evaluate this method's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that news-based prediction models outperform traditional linear, nonlinear models or artificial intelligence models to provide accurate predictions consistently.
Current Value
32.21
32.27
After-hype Price
34.05
Upside
Central Garden is very steady at this time. Analysis and calculation of next after-hype price of Central Garden Pet is based on 3 months time horizon.

Central Garden Stock Price Outlook Analysis

Have you ever been surprised when a price of a Company such as Central Garden is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading Central Garden backward and forwards among themselves. Have you ever observed a lot of a particular company's price movement is driven by press releases or news about the company that has nothing to do with actual earnings? Usually, hype to individual companies acts as price momentum. If not enough favorable publicity is forthcoming, the Stock price eventually runs out of speed. So, the rule of thumb here is that as long as this news hype has nothing to do with immediate earnings, you should pay more attention to it. If you see this tendency with Central Garden, there might be something going there, and it might present an excellent short sale opportunity.
Expected ReturnPeriod VolatilityHype ElasticityRelated ElasticityNews DensityRelated DensityExpected Hype
  0.07 
1.78
  0.06 
 0.00  
9 Events / Month
8 Events / Month
In about 9 days
Latest traded priceExpected after-news pricePotential return on next major newsAverage after-hype volatility
32.21
32.27
0.19 
193.48  
Notes

Central Garden Hype Timeline

Central Garden Pet is currently traded for 32.21. The entity has historical hype elasticity of 0.06, and average elasticity to hype of competition of 0.0. Central is estimated to increase in value after the next headline, with the price projected to jump to 32.27 or above. The average volatility of media hype impact on the company the price is about 193.48%. The price appreciation on the next news is projected to be 0.19%, whereas the daily expected return is currently at 0.07%. The volatility of related hype on Central Garden is about 25428.57%, with the expected price after the next announcement by competition of 32.21. The company reported the previous year's revenue of 3.13 B. Net Income was 163.96 M with profit before overhead, payroll, taxes, and interest of 1 B. Given the investment horizon of 90 days the next estimated press release will be in about 9 days.
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Central Garden Related Hype Analysis

Having access to credible news sources related to Central Garden's direct competition is more important than ever and may enhance your ability to predict Central Garden's future price movements. Getting to know how Central Garden's peers react to changing market sentiment, related social signals, and mainstream news is a great way to find investing opportunities and time the market. The summary table below summarizes the essential lagging indicators that can help you analyze how Central Garden may potentially react to the hype associated with one of its peers.
Hype
Elasticity
News
Density
Semi
Deviation
Information
Ratio
Potential
Upside
Value
At Risk
Maximum
Drawdown
NOMDNomad Foods(0.05)10 per month 1.17 (0.03) 1.82 (2.18) 8.79 
JJSFJ J Snack(0.37)10 per month 1.57 (0.03) 2.79 (2.71) 9.39 
SMPLSimply Good Foods(0.15)34 per month 0.00 (0.13) 2.90 (3.46) 17.35 
STRAStrategic Education 0.38 11 per month 2.16 (0.01) 2.32 (4.08) 12.29 
FDPFresh Del Monte(0.41)11 per month 1.46  0.07  2.19 (2.57) 8.48 
PRDOPerdoceo Education Corp 0.05 8 per month 0.00 (0.12) 2.71 (3.17) 11.89 
ANDEThe Andersons(0.94)10 per month 1.16  0.20  4.37 (2.24) 7.65 
WMKWeis Markets(0.38)7 per month 1.23 (0.03) 2.23 (2.09) 7.02 
TPBTurning Point Brands 1.24 10 per month 1.25  0.22  4.03 (2.51) 10.86 
FLOFlowers Foods 0.56 12 per month 0.00 (0.1) 3.55 (3.72) 11.13 

Central Garden Additional Predictive Modules

Most predictive techniques to examine Central price help traders to determine how to time the market. We provide a combination of tools to recognize potential entry and exit points for Central using various technical indicators. When you analyze Central charts, please remember that the event formation may indicate an entry point for a short seller, and look at other indicators across different periods to confirm that a breakdown or reversion is likely to occur.

About Central Garden Predictive Indicators

The successful prediction of Central Garden stock price could yield a significant profit to investors. But is it possible? The efficient-market hypothesis suggests that all published stock prices of traded companies, such as Central Garden Pet, already reflect all publicly available information. This academic statement is a fundamental principle of many financial and investing theories used today. However, the typical investor usually disagrees with a 'textbook' version of this hypothesis and continually tries to find mispriced stocks to increase returns. We use internally-developed statistical techniques to arrive at the intrinsic value of Central Garden based on analysis of Central Garden hews, social hype, general headline patterns, and widely used predictive technical indicators.
We also calculate exposure to Central Garden's market risk, different technical and fundamental indicators, relevant financial multiples and ratios, and then comparing them to Central Garden's related companies.
 2025 2026 (projected)
Dividend Yield3.773.96
Price To Sales Ratio0.04650.0442

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