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.

Insider signal In line Selling ran in line with 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
6
7 transactions
Purchases
$0
0 shares
Sales
$1.3M
35,818 shares
Net activity
-$1.3M
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 $1.3M 7 transactions · 35,818 shares

Largest single sale: $309.1K.

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
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.