Consumer Staples / Food DistributionUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

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Market cap

3.3B

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E35.9

P25 11.3P50 15.2P75 20.1

Trailing P/E44.6

P25 12.9P50 17.8P75 28.8

ROE13.8

P25 -17.2P50 6.8P75 17.2

ROIC7.9

P25 -6.6P50 6.3P75 13.6

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All CHEF market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

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Showing 261 of 261 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0001517175
Company name	The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	163086101
Employees	5,156
Employees Change	127%
Employees Change Percent	2.53
Enterprise value	$4.2B
Exchange	NASDAQ
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Food Distribution
IPO Date	2011-07-28
Isin	US1630861011
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$3.3B
Market cap category	Mid-Cap
Price	$81.71
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	825,795x
Sector	Consumer Staples
Sic	5141
Symbol	CHEF
Website	https://www.chefswarehouse.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	2.38%
EV Earnings	52.71x
EV Sales Forward	0.91x
EV/EBIT	25.2x
EV/EBITDA	17.43x
EV/FCF	51.61x
EV/Sales	0.98x
FCF yield	2.43%
Forward P/E	35.94x
P/B ratio	5.47x
P/E ratio	44.64x
P/S ratio	0.78x
PE Ratio10 Y	90.57x
PE Ratio3 Y	38.8x
PE Ratio5 Y	42.86x
PS Forward	0.72x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	3.9%
EBITDA Margin	5.64%
FCF margin	1.91%
Gross margin	24.32%
Gross Profit	$1B
Gross Profit Growth	11.26%
Gross Profit Growth Q	13.88%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	15.57%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	34.39%
Net Income	$79.4M
Net Income Growth	24.44%
Net Income Growth Q	68.81%
Net Income Growth Quarters	1%
Net Income Growth Years	5%
Net Income Growth3 Y	41.96%
Pretax Margin	2.67%
Profit Margin	1.87%
Profit Per Employee	$15,407
Profitable Years	4
ROA	5.43
Roa5y	3.82
ROCE	10.64
ROE	13.81
Roe5y	7.58
ROIC	7.94
Roic5y	5.71

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	17.56%
Cagr1y	31.84%
Cagr3y	32.94%
Cagr5y	20.47%
EPS Growth	24.61
EPS Growth Q	61.43
EPS Growth Quarters	1
EPS Growth Years	5
EPS Growth3 Y	35.97
FCF Growth	-36.09%
FCF Growth Q	-17.9%
FCF Growth5 Y	102.31%
OCF Growth	-31.34%
OCF Growth Q	-22.81%
OCF Growth10 Y	11.58%
OCF Growth3 Y	123.3%
OCF Growth5 Y	66.43%
Revenue Growth	10.01x
Revenue Growth Q	11.39x
Revenue Growth Quarters	20x
Revenue Growth Years	5x
Revenue Growth3 Y	14.71x
Revenue Growth5 Y	33.17x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$2.22
Assets	$2B
Cash	$122.7M
Current Assets	$930.9M
Current Liabilities	$427.7M
Debt	$978.2M
Debt EBITDA	$3.21
Debt Equity	$1.61
Debt FCF	$12.06
Equity	$608.6M
Interest Coverage	3.98
Liabilities	$1.4B
Long Term Assets	$1.1B
Long Term Liabilities	$953.4M
Net Cash	$-855.5M
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-25.68
Net Debt EBITDA	$3.56
Net Debt Equity	$1.41
Net Debt FCF	$10.54
Tangible Book Value	$114.3M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$2.81
WACC	10.21

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	2.18
Inventory Turnover	9.47
Net Working Capital	$435M
Quick ratio	1.23
Working Capital	$503.2M
Working Capital Turnover	$9.15

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	3.87%
Dividend Yield	0%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	404.07%
1Y total return	31.81%
200-day SMA	63.19
3Y total return	135%
50-day SMA	65.44
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	153.76%
All Time High	82.81
All Time High Change	-1.33%
All Time High Date	2026-05-08
All Time Low	3.55
All Time Low Change	2,201.69%
All Time Low Date	2020-03-18
ATR	2.86
Beta	1.47
Beta1y	0.5
Beta2y	0.98
Ch YTD	31.09
High	82.81
High52	82.81
High52 Date	2026-05-08
High52ch	-1.33%
Low	80.78
Low52	53.2
Low52 Date	2025-10-02
Low52ch	53.59%
Ma50ch	24.86%
Premarket Change Percent	-0.98
Premarket Price	$79.55
Premarket Volume	10,311
Price vs 200-day SMA	29.3%
RSI	77.44
RSI Monthly	68.06
RSI Weekly	69.24
Sharpe ratio	0.8x
Sortino ratio	1.47
Total Return	3.87%
Tr YTD	31.09
Tr1m	37.93%
Tr1w	3.65%
Tr3m	22.56%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	6
Analyst Count Top	2
Analyst Price Target Top	$73
Analyst Ratings	Strong Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$0.25
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	0
Earnings Revenue Estimate	1,006,686,328x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	5.88x
Operating Income	$166.2M
Operating Income Growth	23.58
Operating Income Growth Q	45.74
Operating Income Growth3 Y	16.65
Operating margin	3.9
Price target	$78.67
Price Target Change	$-3.72
Price Target Change Top	$-10.66

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	36,795,647%
Float Percent	90.23%
Net Borrowing	-35,266,000
Shares Insiders	9.75%
Shares Institutions	97.59%
Shares Out	40,777,629
Shares Qo Q	0.07%
Shares Yo Y	-3.87%
Short Float	13.2%
Short Ratio	10.4
Short Shares	11.91

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$59.4M
Average Volume	524,976.1x
Bv Per Share	14.94
CAPEX	$-36.8M
Ch10y	404.1
Ch1m	37.93
Ch1w	3.65
Ch1y	31.81
Ch3m	22.56
Ch3y	135
Ch5y	153.8
Ch6m	31.03
Change	1.71%
Change From Open	0.47
Close	80.34
Days Gap	1.23
Depreciation Amortization	74,122,000
Dollar Volume	29,155,680.5
Earnings Date	2026-04-29
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$166.2M
EBITDA	$240.3M
EPS	$1.83
F Score	8
FCF	$81.1M
FCF EV Yield	1.94x
FCF Per Share	$1.99
Financing CF	-69,587,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,985
Goodwill	362,684,000
Graham Number	24.80217
Graham Upside	-69.65
Income Tax	$34.4M
Investing CF	-42,114,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-04-29
Last Report Date	2026-03-27
Last Split Type	Never
Last10k Filing Date	2026-02-24
Lynch Fair Value	$45.76
Lynch Upside	-44
Ma150	63.21
Ma150ch	29.26%
Ma20	70.67
Ma20ch	15.62%
Net CF	6,179,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-07-29
Open	81.33
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	41.07
P OCF Ratio	28.26
Position In Range	45.81
Post Close	81.71
Postmarket Change Percent	-1.99
Postmarket Price	$80.08
Ppne	553,249,000
Pre Close	80.34
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$13.87
Ptbv Ratio	29.15
Relative Volume	0.68x
Revenue	4,257,799,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.51x
Share Based Comp	21,769,000
Tax By Revenue	0.81x
Tax Rate	30.19%
Tr6m	31.03%
Us State	Connecticut
Volume	356,819
Z Score	3.96

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Next action

Research pending

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Income

Does CHEF pay a dividend?

Capital-return profile for this ticker.

Performance

CHEF stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns CHEF?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+97.6%

Float: +90.2% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+9.7%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

CHEF momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

77.4

Above 70: short-term overbought

Price vs 200-day MA

+29.3%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

1.47

More volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

0.80

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

CHEF vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
COST	Costco Wholesale Corporation	447.6B	52.5x	1.6x	37.8%	+9.9%	+0.7%	Verkaufen
KO	The Coca-Cola Company	337.4B	24.7x	6.8x	19.6%	+8.1%	+11.5%	Starker Kauf
MO	Altria Group Inc.	113.8B	14.2x	5.6x	66.4%	-0.3%	+19.7%	Halten

Questions

About CHEF

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