Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF) Competitors

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

Do analysts prefer CHEF or ANDE?

Chefs' Warehouse currently has a consensus target price of $48.00, indicating a potential upside of 22.76%. Andersons has a consensus target price of $62.50, indicating a potential upside of 25.50%. Given Andersons' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Andersons is more favorable than Chefs' Warehouse.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Chefs' Warehouse	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Andersons	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in CHEF or ANDE?

91.6% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.1% of Andersons shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.9% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Andersons shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility & risk, CHEF or ANDE?

Chefs' Warehouse has a beta of 2.3, suggesting that its stock price is 130% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Andersons has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CHEF or ANDE?

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.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Chefs' Warehouse	Outperform Votes 406 61.89%	Underperform Votes 250 38.11%
Andersons	Outperform Votes 300 56.71%	Underperform Votes 229 43.29%

Is CHEF or ANDE more profitable?

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.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Chefs' Warehouse	0.98%	12.30%	3.24%
Andersons	0.89%	7.93%	3.27%

Does the media favor CHEF or ANDE?

In the previous week, Chefs' Warehouse and Chefs' Warehouse both had 4 articles in the media. Andersons' average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Chefs' Warehouse's score of 1.15 indicating that Andersons 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)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Andersons	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, CHEF or ANDE?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Chefs' Warehouse	$3.59B	0.43	$34.59M	$0.87	44.94
Andersons	$14.75B	0.12	$101.19M	$3.54	14.13

Summary

Chefs' Warehouse beats Andersons on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.