CHEF vs. ANDE, CORE, UNFI, SPTN, SYY, WILC, PFGC, FRPT, DAR, and LANC
Should you be buying Chefs' Warehouse stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chefs' Warehouse include Andersons (ANDE), Core-Mark (CORE), United Natural Foods (UNFI), SpartanNash (SPTN), Sysco (SYY), G. Willi-Food International (WILC), Performance Food Group (PFGC), Freshpet (FRPT), Darling Ingredients (DAR), and Lancaster Colony (LANC).
Chefs' Warehouse (NASDAQ:CHEF) and Andersons (NASDAQ:ANDE) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.
Chefs' Warehouse presently has a consensus price target of $48.00, indicating a potential upside of 22.26%. Andersons has a consensus price target of $62.50, indicating a potential upside of 24.83%. Given Andersons' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Andersons is more favorable than Chefs' Warehouse.
In the previous week, Andersons had 1 more articles in the media than Chefs' Warehouse. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Andersons and 3 mentions for Chefs' Warehouse. Andersons' average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Chefs' Warehouse's score of 0.85 indicating that Andersons is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
91.6% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.1% of Andersons shares are held by institutional investors. 11.9% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Andersons shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Andersons has higher revenue and earnings than Chefs' Warehouse. Andersons is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chefs' Warehouse, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Chefs' Warehouse has a beta of 2.3, indicating that its stock price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Andersons has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Chefs' Warehouse received 106 more outperform votes than Andersons when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.89% of users gave Chefs' Warehouse an outperform vote while only 56.71% of users gave Andersons an outperform vote.
Chefs' Warehouse has a net margin of 0.98% compared to Andersons' net margin of 0.89%. Chefs' Warehouse's return on equity of 12.30% beat Andersons' return on equity.
Summary
Chefs' Warehouse beats Andersons on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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