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Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF) Competitors

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$48.34 -0.10 (-0.21%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:16 PM ET)

CHEF vs. UNFI, ANDE, SPTN, SYY, WILC, PFGC, ELF, RH, CELH, and FRPT

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), Performance Food Group (PFGC), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), RH (RH), Celsius (CELH), and Freshpet (FRPT).

Chefs' Warehouse vs.

United Natural Foods (NYSE:UNFI) and Chefs' Warehouse (NASDAQ:CHEF) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

87.6% of United Natural Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of United Natural Foods shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

United Natural Foods currently has a consensus target price of $22.60, suggesting a potential downside of 12.67%. Chefs' Warehouse has a consensus target price of $53.40, suggesting a potential upside of 10.47%. Given Chefs' Warehouse's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Chefs' Warehouse is more favorable than United Natural Foods.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
United Natural Foods
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Chefs' Warehouse
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

United Natural Foods received 222 more outperform votes than Chefs' Warehouse when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.18% of users gave Chefs' Warehouse an outperform vote while only 55.28% of users gave United Natural Foods an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
United Natural FoodsOutperform Votes
633
55.28%
Underperform Votes
512
44.72%
Chefs' WarehouseOutperform Votes
411
62.18%
Underperform Votes
250
37.82%

Chefs' Warehouse has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
United Natural Foods$31.30B0.05-$112M-$1.57-16.48
Chefs' Warehouse$3.71B0.52$34.59M$1.1442.40

Chefs' Warehouse has a net margin of 1.28% compared to United Natural Foods' net margin of -0.30%. Chefs' Warehouse's return on equity of 12.67% beat United Natural Foods' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
United Natural Foods-0.30% 1.27% 0.27%
Chefs' Warehouse 1.28%12.67%3.41%

In the previous week, United Natural Foods and United Natural Foods both had 12 articles in the media. Chefs' Warehouse's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat United Natural Foods' score of 0.47 indicating that Chefs' Warehouse is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
United Natural Foods
4 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Chefs' Warehouse
5 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

United Natural Foods has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chefs' Warehouse has a beta of 2.33, meaning that its share price is 133% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Chefs' Warehouse beats United Natural Foods on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CHEF vs. The Competition

MetricChefs' WarehouseGroceries, general line IndustryStaples SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.91B$2.51B$14.03B$9.07B
Dividend YieldN/A2.07%2.79%4.23%
P/E Ratio42.4020.3021.9617.19
Price / Sales0.520.222.60116.95
Price / Cash17.8710.9521.1437.86
Price / Book4.221.925.854.78
Net Income$34.59M$70.63M$572.90M$225.60M
7 Day Performance-0.84%-2.80%-1.84%-1.23%
1 Month Performance10.21%7.48%-3.05%3.36%
1 Year Performance67.04%42.82%2.93%16.60%

Chefs' Warehouse Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CHEF
Chefs' Warehouse
2.9452 of 5 stars
$48.34
-0.2%
$53.40
+10.5%
+66.6%$1.91B$3.71B42.404,873High Trading Volume
UNFI
United Natural Foods
3.8033 of 5 stars
$28.07
-1.5%
$22.60
-19.5%
+57.4%$1.68B$31.30B-17.8028,333Positive News
Gap Down
ANDE
Andersons
4.9549 of 5 stars
$44.09
-2.0%
$65.00
+47.4%
-27.9%$1.50B$11.35B12.852,334
SPTN
SpartanNash
3.8558 of 5 stars
$19.55
-0.4%
$20.00
+2.3%
-16.2%$660.01M$9.73B14.6917,000
SYY
Sysco
4.592 of 5 stars
$79.70
-0.3%
$85.77
+7.6%
+5.1%$39.15B$78.84B20.5076,000Analyst Downgrade
WILC
G. Willi-Food International
1.9495 of 5 stars
$16.85
+2.6%
N/A+76.9%$233.71M$149.78M14.54180News Coverage
Positive News
PFGC
Performance Food Group
4.8337 of 5 stars
$89.16
+0.6%
$94.27
+5.7%
+23.6%$13.89B$58.76B32.7137,000Analyst Forecast
Positive News
ELF
e.l.f. Beauty
4.6768 of 5 stars
$137.72
-2.1%
$170.65
+23.9%
-11.0%$7.76B$1.02B76.02300Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
RH
RH
3.8858 of 5 stars
$417.72
-6.3%
$391.07
-6.4%
+30.4%$7.70B$3.03B128.175,960Analyst Upgrade
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
CELH
Celsius
3.9419 of 5 stars
$31.15
-2.0%
$51.17
+64.3%
-45.0%$7.32B$1.32B42.86220Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
FRPT
Freshpet
3.8589 of 5 stars
$147.18
+0.2%
$157.80
+7.2%
+71.6%$7.14B$766.90M165.051,083Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:CHEF) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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