United Natural Foods (UNFI) Competitors

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 institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and media sentiment.

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, CHEF or UNFI?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Chefs' Warehouse	$3.79B	0.57	$55.48M	$1.31	40.90
United Natural Foods	$31.68B	0.05	-$112M	-$1.37	-19.77

Which has more volatility and risk, CHEF or UNFI?

Chefs' Warehouse has a beta of 2.28, indicating that its stock price is 128% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Natural Foods has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in CHEF or UNFI?

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.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Chefs' Warehouse	Outperform Votes 417 62.52%	Underperform Votes 250 37.48%
United Natural Foods	Outperform Votes 634 55.23%	Underperform Votes 514 44.77%

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of CHEF or UNFI?

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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts recommend CHEF or UNFI?

Chefs' Warehouse presently has a consensus target price of $67.60, indicating a potential upside of 26.17%. United Natural Foods has a consensus target price of $27.50, indicating a potential upside of 1.55%. Given Chefs' Warehouse's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly 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)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.13

Does the media favor CHEF or UNFI?

In the previous week, Chefs' Warehouse had 2 more articles in the media than United Natural Foods. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Chefs' Warehouse and 7 mentions for United Natural Foods. 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.

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

Is CHEF or UNFI more profitable?

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' Warehouse	1.46%	12.90%	3.54%
United Natural Foods	-0.30%	1.27%	0.27%

Summary

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