The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (CHEF)
Consumer · NMS
Price as at 30 Sept 2026, 17:00 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. trades at $114.44, which is 38% above the $70.45 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure it screens as expensive, which is not the same as saying it will fall.
Our moat model scores it 35 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 52.0 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
CHEF earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 9 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc.
The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, distributes specialty food and center-of-the-plate products in the United States, the Middle East, and Canada. It offers specialty food products, such as artisan charcuterie, specialty cheeses, unique oils and vinegars, truffles, caviar, chocolate, and pastry products and center-of-the-plate products that includes custom cut beef, seafood, and hormone-free poultry, as well as produce and broadline food products comprising cooking oils, butter, eggs, milk, and flour. The company serves menu-driven independent restaurants, fine dining establishments, country clubs, hotels, caterers, culinary schools, bakeries, patisseries, chocolatiers, cruise lines, casinos, and specialty food stores. It markets its center-of-the-plate products directly to consumers through a mail and e-commerce platform. The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
Super investor ownership
10 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Select Equity Group, Select Equity Group, L.P.$73.56M · 0.4% of book
- D. E. Shaw, D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$63.86M · 0.0% of book
- Capital Research Global, Capital Research Global Investors$33.36M · 0.0% of book
- First Eagle, First Eagle Investment Management, LLC$17.44M · 0.0% of book
- Israel Englander, MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC$14.10M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
CHEF peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Food Distribution), then in the same sector.
- USFD US Foods Holding Corp.
- BZLFY Bunzl plc
- UNFI United Natural Foods, Inc.
- HCIL Hongchang International Co., Ltd
- AIXN AiXin Life International, Inc.
- AMZN Amazon.com, Inc.
- TSLA Tesla, Inc.
- WMT Walmart Inc.
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Common questions
Is The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (CHEF) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $70.45, CHEF at $114.44 is 38% above fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own CHEF?
10 of the institutions we track reported a position in CHEF in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is CHEF's P/E ratio?
CHEF trades at 52.0 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Where does SteadyShares get its CHEF data?
Fundamentals for CHEF come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NMS; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 30 Sept 2026, 17:00 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 96/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.