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SPTN vs. CHEF, UNFI, ANDE, SYY, NGVC, WILC, FARM, SFM, PFGC, and ZGN

Should you be buying SpartanNash stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SpartanNash include Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF), United Natural Foods (UNFI), Andersons (ANDE), Sysco (SYY), Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (NGVC), G. Willi-Food International (WILC), Farmer Brothers (FARM), Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM), Performance Food Group (PFGC), and Ermenegildo Zegna (ZGN).

SpartanNash vs. Its Competitors

Chefs' Warehouse (NASDAQ:CHEF) and SpartanNash (NASDAQ:SPTN) are both food distributors companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.

Chefs' Warehouse has a net margin of 1.65% compared to SpartanNash's net margin of -0.11%. Chefs' Warehouse's return on equity of 13.15% beat SpartanNash's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Chefs' Warehouse1.65% 13.15% 3.70%
SpartanNash -0.11%8.26%2.51%

91.6% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 84.6% of SpartanNash shares are held by institutional investors. 11.9% 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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Chefs' Warehouse has higher earnings, but lower revenue than SpartanNash. 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Chefs' Warehouse$3.87B0.67$55.48M$1.5142.46
SpartanNash$9.55B0.09$300K-$0.32-83.06

In the previous week, Chefs' Warehouse had 7 more articles in the media than SpartanNash. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Chefs' Warehouse and 2 mentions for SpartanNash. SpartanNash's average media sentiment score of 1.68 beat Chefs' Warehouse's score of 0.98 indicating that SpartanNash is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Chefs' Warehouse
7 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
SpartanNash
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Chefs' Warehouse presently has a consensus target price of $67.40, indicating a potential upside of 5.13%. SpartanNash has a consensus target price of $18.45, indicating a potential downside of 30.59%. Given Chefs' Warehouse's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Chefs' Warehouse is more favorable than SpartanNash.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Chefs' Warehouse
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
SpartanNash
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Chefs' Warehouse has a beta of 1.74, meaning that its stock price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SpartanNash has a beta of 0.44, meaning that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Chefs' Warehouse beats SpartanNash on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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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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SPTN vs. The Competition

MetricSpartanNashFOOD ITEMS IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$899.73M$5.03B$26.82B$9.41B
Dividend Yield3.31%3.01%177.11%4.03%
P/E Ratio-83.0623.2930.7919.89
Price / Sales0.090.776.09196.39
Price / Cash5.1913.3717.0928.17
Price / Book1.214.205.885.73
Net Income$300K$140.20M$880.45M$258.18M
7 Day Performance0.26%4.90%4.34%3.92%
1 Month Performance50.68%15.49%8.77%14.31%
1 Year Performance32.24%43.79%25.15%17.29%

SpartanNash Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SPTN
SpartanNash
3.0521 of 5 stars
$26.58
+0.0%
$18.45
-30.6%
+34.0%$899.73M$9.55B-83.0619,000Positive News
CHEF
Chefs' Warehouse
2.3621 of 5 stars
$65.76
+0.8%
$67.40
+2.5%
+58.3%$2.68B$3.79B43.555,029
UNFI
United Natural Foods
4.2295 of 5 stars
$23.78
-0.1%
$26.43
+11.1%
+86.0%$1.44B$30.98B-20.6828,333Analyst Upgrade
ANDE
Andersons
4.8124 of 5 stars
$37.80
-1.5%
$51.67
+36.7%
-30.4%$1.29B$11.20B11.922,299
SYY
Sysco
4.7549 of 5 stars
$77.69
+1.1%
$82.77
+6.5%
+6.9%$37.66B$80.79B20.1376,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
NGVC
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage
1.3917 of 5 stars
$40.11
+2.6%
N/A+62.8%$919.81M$1.24B22.544,145
WILC
G. Willi-Food International
1.2896 of 5 stars
$19.83
+4.6%
N/A+118.9%$275.04M$157.88M14.27180
FARM
Farmer Brothers
4.4877 of 5 stars
$1.46
-0.7%
$4.50
+208.2%
-51.9%$31.47M$341.54M-2.151,003Gap Up
SFM
Sprouts Farmers Market
3.3915 of 5 stars
$164.54
+3.0%
$167.79
+2.0%
+102.6%$16.10B$7.72B36.9835,000Analyst Forecast
PFGC
Performance Food Group
4.3298 of 5 stars
$97.43
+2.8%
$100.31
+3.0%
+51.6%$15.21B$61.55B40.5937,000Positive News
High Trading Volume
ZGN
Ermenegildo Zegna
2.0394 of 5 stars
$8.81
-0.7%
$8.70
-1.2%
-19.4%$3.59B$1.95B16.617,395

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This page (NASDAQ:SPTN) was last updated on 7/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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