Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. CENTA scored 51.3, COCO scored 78.8 — COCO leads.
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CENTA
Central Garden & Pet Company
Packaged Foods · Quality-Growth
51.3
$35.00 · $2.2B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
27.5
COCO leads
COCO
The Vita Coco Company, Inc.
Beverages - Non-Alcoholic · Quality-Growth
78.8
$58.39 · $3.4B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
CheapestCENTA13.0x
Fastest growthCOCO+18.2%
Strongest balance sheetCOCO0.04
Highest qualityCOCO85 / 100
Largest discount to fair valueCENTA-70%
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
Growth against the P/E multiple. Up and to the right is cheaper and faster — the quality-growth idea in one picture. Points beyond the axis are pinned to the edge and marked off-scale rather than allowed to compress everything else.
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
CENTA
stronger →← stronger
COCO
60
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
85
30
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
91
74
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
64
COCO is stronger on 2 of 3 pillars.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
CENTA
COCO
$346mC
FCF
$124mC
-2.2%D+
Rev
+18.2%B+
0.81B
D/E
0.04A
13.0xA-
P/E
32.3xC
1.87C+
PEG
2.11C
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
Valuation · DCF cross-check
CENTA
COCO
70% below
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
14% above
~-23%/yr
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
~13%/yr
+242%
1-yr DCF upside
-25%
+238%
5-yr DCF upside
-13%
+231%
10-yr DCF upside
+9%
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Model signals
CENTA
Why this score
Buying back stock
COCO
Why this score
Durable high returns
The companies
CENTACentral Garden & Pet Company
Packaged Foods · $35.00 · beta 0.59
Why now
Packaged Foods · market cap $2.2b. 14% off the 52-week high of $40.80. 4 sell-side analysts publish a mean 1-yr target of $46.25 (implying +32% upside).
Moat
Free cash flow runs well ahead of reported net income.
Risk
Value re-rating depends on a catalyst. Without one — analyst day, divestiture, margin recovery, capital return — the stock can stay cheap on these multiples for years.
COCOThe Vita Coco Company, Inc.
Beverages - Non-Alcoholic · $58.39 · beta 0.75
Why now
Beverages - Non-Alcoholic · market cap $3.4b. Down 32% from 52-week high of $85.83 — deep drawdown territory. Revenue growing +18%, comfortably above the S&P median. 10 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $78.60 (implying +35% upside).
Moat
Net margin 16% beats the market median by a meaningful margin — the company is keeping more of every revenue dollar than the average S&P constituent. ROE 31% — top-decile capital efficiency. Either pricing leverage, low capital intensity, or aggressive buybacks; the durability story depends on which. FCF converts 114% of net income — earnings translate cleanly into cash.
Risk
Down 32% from the 52-week high — the market is pricing in something the screen can't see; verify the bear case before sizing up. Trailing P/E 32x sits well above the S&P median (~20x) — multiple compression is a real risk if revenue growth decelerates.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
Generating verdict… typically 5–10 seconds
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Where CENTA and COCO diverge
On the headline score the gap is 27.5 points in favor of COCO. They get there differently, though — each leads on a different pillar, so the better pick depends on which you weight.
GrowthCENTA 30.3 · COCO 91.1COCO +60.8
QualityCENTA 60.0 · COCO 84.6COCO +24.6
ValueCENTA 74.5 · COCO 63.5CENTA +11.0
Pillars run 0–100. Value is judged against each company's own sector, so a Value score is a statement about a company relative to its own industry rather than to the other name here. A wide Value gap usually means the market already prices the difference in quality or growth — which is the trade-off this comparison comes down to.
Common questions
Is COCO or CENTA the better stock?
COCO scores higher: COCO 78.8, CENTA 51.3 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
Where do COCO and CENTA differ most?
The widest gap is growth, where COCO leads by 61 points on the 0–100 pillar scale. Neither name sweeps: they trade the lead across the three pillars, so the comparison is a trade-off rather than one being better on every measure.
How are COCO and CENTA scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.