CENT Central Garden & Pet Company

NASDAQ
$40.10

Central Garden & Pet Company (CENT) Insider Activity

What the officers, directors and large holders did with their own shares. Only open-market purchases and sales count toward the totals — grants, option exercises and shares withheld for tax are compensation mechanics, not decisions, and they're listed separately below.

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Insider signal Bearish Selling ran elevated versus CENT's own trailing one-year pace, with 0% of sale value under a prearranged plan.
Cluster activity 0 buyers in the last 30 days 0 buyers in the last 90 days 2 sellers in the last 90 days
Insiders buying
0
0 transactions
Insiders selling
2
3 transactions
Purchases
$0
0 shares
Sales
$539.6K
13,900 shares
Net activity
-$539.6K
purchases less sales

How much of that selling was preplanned? 0% planned / 100% discretionary

10b5-1 plan sales $0 0 transactions · 0 shares
Discretionary sales $539.6K 3 transactions · 13,900 shares

Largest single sale: $195.0K.

Where they traded

Buy Sell Dot area is proportional to transaction value.

No open-market insider purchase on record.

Recent open-market activity

Date Insider Role Action Shares Price Value Held after
BROWN WILLIAM E Chairman Sell 3,900 $39.00 $152.1K 350,259 −1.1% of holding
Walker John D. III President, Garden Consumer Pro Sell 5,000 $39.00 $195.0K 59,679 −7.7% of holding
Walker John D. III President, Garden Consumer Pro Sell 5,000 $38.50 $192.5K 64,679 −7.2% of holding

Form 4s are due within two business days of a transaction, so this is close to real time — unlike the quarterly 13F data on the Institutional tab. A single large sale often reflects a prearranged 10b5-1 plan rather than a fresh view, so read a pattern of sales rather than any one of them.