UNFI vs. CHEF, MED, ANDE, SPTN, SYY, POST, DAR, MZTI, BRBR, and BRFS
Should you be buying United Natural Foods stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United Natural Foods include Chefs' Warehouse (CHEF), Medifast (MED), Andersons (ANDE), SpartanNash (SPTN), Sysco (SYY), Post (POST), Darling Ingredients (DAR), Marzetti (MZTI), BellRing Brands (BRBR), and BRF (BRFS).
United Natural Foods vs. Its Competitors
Chefs' Warehouse (NASDAQ:CHEF) and United Natural Foods (NYSE:UNFI) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation and earnings.
Chefs' Warehouse has a beta of 1.75, suggesting that its stock price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United Natural Foods has a beta of 0.88, suggesting that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Chefs' Warehouse has a net margin of 1.76% compared to United Natural Foods' net margin of -0.37%. Chefs' Warehouse's return on equity of 13.60% beat United Natural Foods' return on equity.
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 presently has a consensus price target of $69.67, indicating a potential upside of 24.08%. United Natural Foods has a consensus price target of $36.00, indicating a potential downside of 14.38%. Given Chefs' Warehouse's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Chefs' Warehouse is more favorable than United Natural Foods.
91.6% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.6% of United Natural Foods shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.9% of Chefs' Warehouse shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of United Natural Foods shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, United Natural Foods had 7 more articles in the media than Chefs' Warehouse. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for United Natural Foods and 5 mentions for Chefs' Warehouse. United Natural Foods' average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Chefs' Warehouse's score of 0.05 indicating that United Natural Foods is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Chefs' Warehouse beats United Natural Foods on 13 of the 17 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 NYSE 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 (NYSE:UNFI) was last updated on 10/9/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
