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How Central Garden & Pet Company makes its money

Start with a dollar of revenue and follow what the filing says remains.

revenueBranching filed flows with values and percentages directly labeled. Missing filing concepts are omitted rather than estimated.Revenue$3.1B · 100%Cost of revenue$2.1B · 68%Gross profit$997M · 32%Operating income$250M · 8%Income before tax$217M · 7%Income tax$52.8M · 2%Net income$163M · 5%As of 2025-09-27 · 1 SEC filing sourceBuy Like Buffett · buylikebuffett.com

Honest partial: the filing did not provide a normalized tag for Research and development, Selling, general and administrative; those components are omitted, not plugged.

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Filed lineValue% of revenueSource
$3.1B100%
Cost of revenue$2.1B68%
$997M32%
$250M8%
Income before tax$217M7%
Income tax$52.8M2%
$163M5%
Source: · event Sep 27, 2025 · retrieved Oct 16, 2026 · annual-row source set
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