CHEF vs. UNFI, ANDE, SPTN, SYY, CPB, INGR, LW, BRBR, POST, and DAR
Should you be buying Chefs' Warehouse stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chefs' Warehouse include United Natural Foods (UNFI), Andersons (ANDE), SpartanNash (SPTN), Sysco (SYY), Campbell's (CPB), Ingredion (INGR), Lamb Weston (LW), BellRing Brands (BRBR), Post (POST), and Darling Ingredients (DAR).
Chefs' Warehouse vs. Its Competitors
United Natural Foods (NYSE:UNFI) and Chefs' Warehouse (NASDAQ:CHEF) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.
87.6% of United Natural Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.6% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of United Natural Foods shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.9% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, United Natural Foods had 8 more articles in the media than Chefs' Warehouse. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for United Natural Foods and 4 mentions for Chefs' Warehouse. Chefs' Warehouse's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat United Natural Foods' score of 0.41 indicating that Chefs' Warehouse is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chefs' Warehouse has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
United Natural Foods presently has a consensus price target of $26.43, indicating a potential upside of 14.61%. Chefs' Warehouse has a consensus price target of $67.40, indicating a potential upside of 6.19%. Given United Natural Foods' higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe United Natural Foods is more favorable than Chefs' Warehouse.
Chefs' Warehouse has a net margin of 1.65% compared to United Natural Foods' net margin of -0.21%. Chefs' Warehouse's return on equity of 13.15% beat United Natural Foods' return on equity.
United Natural Foods has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chefs' Warehouse has a beta of 1.74, indicating that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Chefs' Warehouse beats United Natural Foods on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (NASDAQ:CHEF) was last updated on 7/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
