CHEF vs. UNFI, ANDE, SPTN, SYY, WILC, DIT, PFGC, CPB, COKE, and CELH
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), G. Willi-Food International (WILC), Amcon Distributing (DIT), Performance Food Group (PFGC), Campbell's (CPB), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), and Celsius (CELH).
Chefs' Warehouse vs.
Chefs' Warehouse (NASDAQ:CHEF) and United Natural Foods (NYSE:UNFI) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk, earnings, media sentiment and valuation.
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.
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.
In the previous week, United Natural Foods had 34 more articles in the media than Chefs' Warehouse. MarketBeat recorded 41 mentions for United Natural Foods and 7 mentions for Chefs' Warehouse. United Natural Foods' average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Chefs' Warehouse's score of 0.90 indicating that United Natural Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chefs' Warehouse has a beta of 1.77, suggesting that its stock price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Natural Foods has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
United Natural Foods received 217 more outperform votes than Chefs' Warehouse when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.54% of users gave Chefs' Warehouse an outperform vote while only 55.30% of users gave United Natural Foods an outperform vote.
Chefs' Warehouse presently has a consensus price target of $67.40, indicating a potential upside of 7.56%. United Natural Foods has a consensus price target of $27.50, indicating a potential upside of 17.67%. Given United Natural Foods' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe United Natural Foods is more favorable than Chefs' Warehouse.
91.6% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.6% of United Natural Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 11.9% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of United Natural Foods shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Chefs' Warehouse beats United Natural Foods on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:CHEF) was last updated on 6/11/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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