CENT Central Garden & Pet Company
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.
How much of that selling was preplanned? 0% planned / 100% discretionary
Largest single sale: $309.1K.
Where they traded
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 | |
| Ranelli John | Director | Sell | 3,668 | $34.50 | $126.5K | 646 −85% of holding | |
| Hanson John Edward | President, Pet Consumer Prod | Sell | 5,000 | $34.75 | $173.8K | 7,155 −41.1% of holding | |
| Dougher Brendan | Director | Sell | 3,250 | $33.38 | $108.5K | 12,845 −20.2% of holding | |
| METZ CHRISTOPHER T | Director | Sell | 10,000 | $30.91 | $309.1K | 11,721 −46% 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.