CHEF vs. ANDE, CORE, UNFI, SPTN, SYY, WILC, PFGC, FRPT, DAR, and LANC
Should you be buying Chefs' Warehouse stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chefs' Warehouse include Andersons (ANDE), Core-Mark (CORE), United Natural Foods (UNFI), SpartanNash (SPTN), Sysco (SYY), G. Willi-Food International (WILC), Performance Food Group (PFGC), Freshpet (FRPT), Darling Ingredients (DAR), and Lancaster Colony (LANC).
Andersons (NASDAQ:ANDE) and Chefs' Warehouse (NASDAQ:CHEF) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Chefs' Warehouse has a net margin of 0.98% compared to Chefs' Warehouse's net margin of 0.89%. Andersons' return on equity of 12.30% beat Chefs' Warehouse's return on equity.
Andersons has higher revenue and earnings than Chefs' Warehouse. Andersons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chefs' Warehouse, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chefs' Warehouse received 106 more outperform votes than Andersons when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.89% of users gave Chefs' Warehouse an outperform vote while only 56.71% of users gave Andersons an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Chefs' Warehouse had 1 more articles in the media than Andersons. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Chefs' Warehouse and 2 mentions for Andersons. Andersons' average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Chefs' Warehouse's score of 0.94 indicating that Chefs' Warehouse is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Andersons has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chefs' Warehouse has a beta of 2.3, meaning that its share price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500.
87.1% of Andersons shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are held by institutional investors. 5.1% of Andersons shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.9% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Andersons presently has a consensus price target of $62.50, suggesting a potential upside of 26.29%. Chefs' Warehouse has a consensus price target of $48.00, suggesting a potential upside of 24.38%. Given Chefs' Warehouse's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Andersons is more favorable than Chefs' Warehouse.
Summary
Chefs' Warehouse beats Andersons on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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