CHEF vs. SPTN, UNFI, COCO, UVV, FDP, TLRY, AGRO, JBSS, VITL, and SCHL
Should you be buying Chefs' Warehouse stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chefs' Warehouse include SpartanNash (SPTN), United Natural Foods (UNFI), Vita Coco (COCO), Universal (UVV), Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP), Tilray (TLRY), Adecoagro (AGRO), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (JBSS), Vital Farms (VITL), and Scholastic (SCHL).
Chefs' Warehouse (NASDAQ:CHEF) and SpartanNash (NASDAQ:SPTN) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Chefs' Warehouse had 10 more articles in the media than SpartanNash. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Chefs' Warehouse and 0 mentions for SpartanNash. Chefs' Warehouse's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat SpartanNash's score of 0.00 indicating that Chefs' Warehouse is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Chefs' Warehouse has a beta of 2.21, meaning that its share price is 121% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SpartanNash has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
91.6% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.6% of SpartanNash shares are held by institutional investors. 12.9% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of SpartanNash shares are held by company 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 $47.67, indicating a potential upside of 44.10%. SpartanNash has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 15.24%. Given Chefs' Warehouse's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Chefs' Warehouse is more favorable than SpartanNash.
SpartanNash has higher revenue and earnings than Chefs' Warehouse. SpartanNash 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 net margin of 1.01% compared to SpartanNash's net margin of 0.54%. Chefs' Warehouse's return on equity of 12.30% beat SpartanNash's return on equity.
Chefs' Warehouse received 153 more outperform votes than SpartanNash when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.93% of users gave Chefs' Warehouse an outperform vote while only 49.03% of users gave SpartanNash an outperform vote.
Summary
Chefs' Warehouse beats SpartanNash on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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