CHEF vs. UNFI, ANDE, SPTN, SYY, WILC, DIT, PFGC, NYT, SFD, and LW
Should you be buying Chefs' Warehouse stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chefs' Warehouse include United Natural Foods (UNFI), Andersons (ANDE), SpartanNash (SPTN), Sysco (SYY), G. Willi-Food International (WILC), Amcon Distributing (DIT), Performance Food Group (PFGC), New York Times (NYT), Smithfield Foods (SFD), and Lamb Weston (LW).
Chefs' Warehouse vs.
Chefs' Warehouse (NASDAQ:CHEF) and United Natural Foods (NYSE:UNFI) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and valuation.
Chefs' Warehouse has a net margin of 1.46% compared to United Natural Foods' net margin of -0.30%. Chefs' Warehouse's return on equity of 12.90% beat United Natural Foods' return on equity.
Chefs' Warehouse currently has a consensus price target of $67.60, suggesting a potential upside of 26.17%. United Natural Foods has a consensus price target of $27.50, suggesting a potential upside of 1.55%. Given Chefs' Warehouse's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Chefs' Warehouse is more favorable than United Natural Foods.
Chefs' Warehouse has a beta of 2.28, meaning that its stock price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Natural Foods has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
91.6% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.6% of United Natural Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 11.9% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of United Natural Foods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
United Natural Foods received 217 more outperform votes than Chefs' Warehouse when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.52% of users gave Chefs' Warehouse an outperform vote while only 55.23% of users gave United Natural Foods an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Chefs' Warehouse and Chefs' Warehouse both had 7 articles in the media. United Natural Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Chefs' Warehouse's score of 1.23 indicating that United Natural Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chefs' Warehouse has higher earnings, but lower revenue than United Natural Foods. United Natural Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chefs' Warehouse, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Chefs' Warehouse beats United Natural Foods on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CHEF) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
