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$31.68 -0.62 (-1.92%)
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$31.98 +0.31 (+0.96%)
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UNFI vs. CHEF, ANDE, SPTN, SYY, WILC, DIT, PFGC, RH, OLLI, and DAR

Should you be buying United Natural Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Natural Foods include Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF), Andersons (ANDE), SpartanNash (SPTN), Sysco (SYY), G. Willi-Food International (WILC), Amcon Distributing (DIT), Performance Food Group (PFGC), RH (RH), Ollie's Bargain Outlet (OLLI), and Darling Ingredients (DAR).

United Natural Foods vs.

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

Chefs' Warehouse has a beta of 2.29, indicating that its share price is 129% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Natural Foods has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Chefs' Warehouse1.46% 12.90% 3.54%
United Natural Foods -0.30%1.27%0.27%

In the previous week, Chefs' Warehouse had 3 more articles in the media than United Natural Foods. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Chefs' Warehouse and 5 mentions for United Natural Foods. United Natural Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Chefs' Warehouse's score of 0.47 indicating that United Natural Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

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

United Natural Foods received 217 more outperform votes than Chefs' Warehouse when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.46% of users gave Chefs' Warehouse an outperform vote while only 55.19% of users gave United Natural Foods an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Chefs' WarehouseOutperform Votes
416
62.46%
Underperform Votes
250
37.54%
United Natural FoodsOutperform Votes
633
55.19%
Underperform Votes
514
44.81%

91.6% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.6% of United Natural Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.9% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of United Natural Foods shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Chefs' Warehouse currently has a consensus target price of $67.60, suggesting a potential upside of 6.68%. United Natural Foods has a consensus target price of $26.40, suggesting a potential downside of 16.67%. Given Chefs' Warehouse's stronger consensus rating and higher probable 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
Chefs' Warehouse
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
United Natural Foods
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Chefs' Warehouse$3.79B0.66$55.48M$1.3148.37
United Natural Foods$30.98B0.06-$112M-$1.57-20.18

Summary

Chefs' Warehouse beats United Natural Foods on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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UNFI vs. The Competition

MetricUnited Natural FoodsGroceries, general line IndustryStaples SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.90B$2.28B$17.01B$20.07B
Dividend YieldN/A1.68%2.90%3.65%
P/E Ratio-20.1823.1916.3134.89
Price / Sales0.060.383.7915.65
Price / Cash5.8011.1116.7220.85
Price / Book1.151.846.914.92
Net Income-$112M$56.73M$734.56M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-6.76%-1.90%-0.35%-1.05%
1 Month Performance16.00%10.22%0.98%-1.09%
1 Year Performance101.02%51.07%9.94%13.71%

United Natural Foods Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
UNFI
United Natural Foods
3.4431 of 5 stars
$31.68
-1.9%
$26.40
-16.7%
+98.5%$1.94B$30.98B0.0028,333
CHEF
Chefs' Warehouse
2.79 of 5 stars
$65.30
+3.4%
$67.60
+3.5%
+74.1%$2.58B$3.43B57.284,873
ANDE
Andersons
4.6945 of 5 stars
$40.55
-0.6%
$60.00
+48.0%
-19.1%$1.38B$14.75B11.592,334Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
SPTN
SpartanNash
3.7834 of 5 stars
$20.33
-2.3%
$20.00
-1.6%
-7.7%$686.34M$9.73B15.2917,000Analyst Downgrade
SYY
Sysco
4.8919 of 5 stars
$71.10
-1.1%
$84.38
+18.7%
-8.1%$34.78B$78.84B18.2876,000Positive News
WILC
G. Willi-Food International
1.9196 of 5 stars
$17.10
+0.1%
N/A+76.2%$237.18M$149.78M15.13180
DIT
Amcon Distributing
N/A$130.41
-0.4%
N/AN/A$84.77M$2.71B21.881,563News Coverage
Gap Up
PFGC
Performance Food Group
4.6365 of 5 stars
$87.20
-0.9%
$95.73
+9.8%
+9.3%$13.62B$58.28B35.1637,000
RH
RH
4.6809 of 5 stars
$382.05
+0.4%
$431.60
+13.0%
+32.9%$7.11B$3.03B109.785,960Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
OLLI
Ollie's Bargain Outlet
4.3547 of 5 stars
$108.35
+1.5%
$118.07
+9.0%
+21.5%$6.64B$2.10B32.3411,500Positive News
DAR
Darling Ingredients
4.2633 of 5 stars
$40.90
+1.0%
$53.22
+30.1%
-7.0%$6.50B$5.72B23.6415,800Positive News

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This page (NYSE:UNFI) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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