Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc. (WOOF) Stock

Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc. (WOOF) is a Consumer Discretionary stock trading at $2.85 (as of 2026-08-20), with a market capitalization of $807.08M. Figures are sourced from first-party U.S. SEC EDGAR filings and market data.

Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc., a health and wellness company, focuses on enhancing the lives of pets, pet parents, and its Petco partners. The company provides veterinary care, grooming, training, tele-health, and Vital Care and pet health insurance services, as well as veterinary services through Vetco mobile clinics. It also offers pet consumables, supplies, and services through its petco.com, petcoach.co, petinsurancequotes.com, and pupbox.com websites. As of March 23, 2022, the company operated approximately 1,500 Petco locations in the United States, Mexico, and Puerto Rico that included a network of approximately 200 in-store veterinary hospitals. Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc. was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Understand Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc.: how it makes money

Petco provides veterinary care, grooming, training, tele-health, and pet health plans (including Vital Care and pet health insurance), and also sells pet consumables and supplies through its stores and websites.

Petco’s profit model is the mix of recurring pet-health offerings (in-clinic and mobile veterinary services, grooming and training, tele-health, and Vital Care and insurance) plus everyday pet consumables sold through its store footprint and petco.com style channels.

Revenue by segment (latest quarter)
Products$1.2B
Services$0.3B

Business quality (Weak): The business spans both services and retail, but profitability is low, so investors typically focus on store-level sales and adoption of pet-health membership programs.

Valuation: At 99× earnings, WOOF trades 416% above the Retail average (19×). Note: one-time items can distort reported P/E.

Bull case

  • Broad service-plus-retail offering: Petco combines veterinary care, grooming, training, tele-health, and Vital Care and pet health insurance with pet consumables and supplies sold through stores and websites.
  • Meaningful scale of pet health membership base: Vital Care Premier Members total 720,000, and Paid Vital Care Premier Customers total 580,000 (counts given for the period).

Bear case

  • Thin operating margin: Operating margin is 2.0% for the period provided, which leaves less cushion if costs rise or demand weakens.
  • Store footprint is shrinking: Net store closures are 7, and Ending Store Count is 1,378 for the period provided.
Valuation — source: SEC EDGAR (first-party)
Price$2.85
Market Cap$807.08M
EV / EBITDA1.4
Price / Book0.70
Price / Sales0.14
FCF Yield-4.0%
DCF Value (model)$3.55
DCF Upside vs Price24.8%
Profitability & Growth — source: SEC EDGAR
Revenue (TTM)$5.96B
Net Margin0.2%
Revenue Growth (YoY)-2.5%
EPS Growth (YoY)-108.1%
FCF Growth (YoY)276.3%
Financial Health — source: SEC EDGAR
Altman Z-Score1.02 (distress)
Piotroski F-Score7/9 (strong)
Valuation vs Sector & Industry
Sector P/E (Consumer Discretionary)20.5
Industry P/E (Retail)19.5
Smart-Money Activity — SEC Form 4 / 13F / Congressional disclosures
Top Institutional HolderCVC Management Holdings II Ltd. ($405.67M)
Institutional Holders Tracked10
Company
SectorConsumer Discretionary
IndustryRetail
CEOJoel D. Anderson
Employees29,000
CountryUS
IPO Date2021-01-14

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Data as of 2026-08-20.

Figures sourced from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC EDGAR) filings and market data. Not personalized investment advice.