CHEF vs. SPTN, UNFI, COCO, TLRY, VSTS, VITL, KLG, MGPI, UVV, and THS
Should you be buying Chefs' Warehouse stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chefs' Warehouse include SpartanNash (SPTN), United Natural Foods (UNFI), Vita Coco (COCO), Tilray (TLRY), Vestis (VSTS), Vital Farms (VITL), WK Kellogg (KLG), MGP Ingredients (MGPI), Universal (UVV), and TreeHouse Foods (THS).
SpartanNash (NASDAQ:SPTN) and Chefs' Warehouse (NASDAQ:CHEF) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Chefs' Warehouse received 154 more outperform votes than SpartanNash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.89% of users gave Chefs' Warehouse an outperform vote while only 49.03% of users gave SpartanNash an outperform vote.
84.6% of SpartanNash shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of SpartanNash shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 12.9% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
SpartanNash presently has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.70%. Chefs' Warehouse has a consensus target price of $48.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.68%. Given SpartanNash's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Chefs' Warehouse is more favorable than SpartanNash.
SpartanNash has higher revenue and earnings than Chefs' Warehouse. SpartanNash is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chefs' Warehouse, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SpartanNash has a beta of 0.53, meaning that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chefs' Warehouse has a beta of 2.22, meaning that its stock price is 122% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chefs' Warehouse has a net margin of 0.98% compared to Chefs' Warehouse's net margin of 0.54%. SpartanNash's return on equity of 12.30% beat Chefs' Warehouse's return on equity.
In the previous week, SpartanNash and SpartanNash both had 9 articles in the media. Chefs' Warehouse's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat SpartanNash's score of 0.33 indicating that SpartanNash is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Chefs' Warehouse beats SpartanNash on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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